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Moving Application Logic From the Firmware to the Cloud: Towards the Thin Server Architecture for the Internet of Things

Moving Application Logic From the Firmware to the Cloud: Towards the Thin Server Architecture for the Internet of Things

...design, the application logic of devices is running on application servers, while thin servers embedded into devices export only their elementary functionality using REST resources... Read more

22 March, 2012

'Thin' Windows 2000 debuts

...released a new test version of Windows 2000 that will ship in thin servers, also known as server appliances. Server appliances are special-purpose servers... Read more

1 March, 2001 by Stephen Shankland

Intel to launch low energy chips

Just the chip for those super-thin servers... Intel is planning to release a line of low-power chips... Read more

2 November, 2001 by Sally Watson

IBM releases small-scale blade solutions

...a small portion of the overall server shipments, but shipments of the thin servers are growing much more quickly than the rest of the market... Read more

10 May, 2006 by Tom Krazit

PlayStation chip sharpens IBM's BladeCenter

...percent, and Dell in third with 9 percent, IDC said. Blades are thin servers that plug side-by-side into a chassis. The chassis supplies... Read more

9 February, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

HP Itanium blades imminent

...account for the lion's share of shipments and revenue for the thin servers. Right now, one difference between their products is that IBM's... Read more

31 October, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Blue Gene set to claim supercomputing crown

...is a 3,564-processor cluster of JS20 blade servers, which are thin servers that use IBM's 2.2GHz PowerPC970 processors. Hewlett-Packard leads... Read more

4 November, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

IBM takes server share from Sun

IBM has strengthened its position at the top of the server market, at the expense of third-placed Sun Microsystems Read more

29 August, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

Incredible shrinking PCs appear at LinuxExpo

...smaller form factors were aimed mainly at applications such as thin clients, thin servers, point of sale machines and the banking sector. The Sumicom PC... Read more

14 October, 2002 by Matt Loney

Intel revs workstation, server chips

...into the tight confines of blade servers, an emerging class of small, thin servers designed for special racks. They fit into a rack like books... Read more

5 September, 2002 by John G.Spooner

Sun to supercharge UltraSparc with Afara acquisition

The Unix server leader will integrate the engineering team of start-up Afara Websystems to boost its chip technology. And Sun blasts Intel's Itanium as a '1970s' concept Read more

26 June, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

IBM plots new Power server chips

The Power5 and Power5 processors will get a feature called FastPath to take over some of the routine jobs normally done - much more slowly - by the operating system Read more

26 April, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

Intel to release low-power Tualatins

...at the Comdex trade show, its first low-power designs for super-thin servers squeezed into cabinets by the dozens, a source familiar with the... Read more

2 November, 2001 by Stephen Shankland

Ultradense servers on the way from PC makers

Ultradense servers offer more vastly more power Read more

1 March, 2001 by Michael Kanellos and Stephen Shankland

Compaq and Samsung push ahead with Alpha

...400 percent. Doubling sales, support and marketing expenditure Developing Alpha technology for thin-servers, network appliances as well as telecommunications technologies Applying copper techniques and... Read more

14 December, 1999 by Will Knight

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