An up-close look at a Microsoft server container 
Photo Microsoft gave PDC attendees a peek at a self-contained server unit from one of the company's datacentres [27 Nov 2009]
Dell expands unified datacentre lineup
News The new products integrate 10Gb Ethernet across the datacentre as a way of cutting costs, building on Dell's recently strengthened partnership with Brocade [14 Dec 2009]
IBM cuts ribbon on portable datacentre
News The shipping container-based datacentre will support server, power and cooling technologies from multiple vendors, according to IBM [03 Dec 2009]
Sun sees server revenue sink in Q3
News All top-five server vendors globally saw declines in revenue and shipment in the third quarter of 2009, according to Gartner [01 Dec 2009]
AMD takes top three places in supercomputer list
News Opterons have won all podium places in a global speed race, although Intel powers most of the remaining 497 [16 Nov 2009]
Tough choices for supercomputing's legacy apps
Comment The prospect of hundreds of petaflops and exascale computing raises tricky issues for legacy apps, says Andrew Jones [12 Nov 2009]
Inside Microsoft's biggest datacentre
Photo Take a look around Microsoft's 700,000 sq ft Chicago facility — a datacentre the company says just might be the biggest on the planet [05 Nov 2009]
Intel seeks new 'microserver' standard
News Intel is aiming to standardise its design for the tiny servers, and will offer its design specification to the Server System Infrastructure Forum by the end of the year [30 Oct 2009]
Dell, Juniper hook up in networking alliance
News Under a new deal, the partners will work together on products for virtualised datacentres and Dell will resell Juniper gear under its PowerConnect J brand [29 Oct 2009]
SAP and Intel team up for research
Blog SAP and Intel Labs announced plans on Monday to enter into a strategic research collaboration into cloud computing and sustainable IT, located in Belfast. The SAP and Intel Collaboratory will be... [20 Oct 2009]
Europe initiates cloud community
Blog EuroCloud, a trade group dedicated to networking and promoting European cloud and software-as-a-service providers, launched on Tuesday. The organisation aims to provide a network for software... [20 Oct 2009]
Fill that power gap: batteries or flywheels?
Blog Are flywheels better than batteries? I visited a datacentre a while back that had a flywheel to fill the gap between power outages and the diesel generator kicking in. The datacentre manager told... [20 Oct 2009]
Microsoft develops utility smart-grid software
News The software giant has developed an architecture that will give utilities companies a blueprint for modernising their IT systems [15 Oct 2009]
HP tailors datacentre tools for Oracle apps
News New templates allow companies to automatically provision and deploy Oracle applications using HP's BladeSystem Matrix all-in-one datacentre package [13 Oct 2009]
IBM moves into cloud storage
News The Smart Business Storage Cloud pulls together IBM technologies to allow businesses to set up private clouds where they can store and archive petabytes of data [07 Oct 2009]
Stratus to launch SMP high availability software
Blog Did you know that keeping two multi-core systems in lock-step was hard? No, neither did I. But apparently it is - but one company claims to have gone and done it. Stratus is well-known for its... [07 Oct 2009]
Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle
News EC2 is the only strong contender to eventually emerge as the leading cloud platform because it has open-source implementations, according to the Canonical chief [05 Oct 2009]
Should programming supercomputers be hard?
Comment Those who glibly argue for easier programming of supercomputers are broaching a complex issue, says Andrew Jones [01 Oct 2009]
Microsoft opens doors to new Chicago datacentre
News The software maker has opened what it says might be the world's largest datacentre in the outskirts of Chicago [01 Oct 2009]
Microsoft warns of delay to Home Server update
News Compatibility issues with Windows 7 have delayed the planned Power Pack 3 update until later this year [30 Sep 2009]
Network boost from Windows Server 2008 R2
Blog Just come away from a briefing and demo of Microsoft's newly-released Windows Server 2008 R2; it's much more than a minor update of the main release last year. We reviewed it briefly in July but... [25 Sep 2009]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
Blog The fourth update to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system (RHEL 5.4) features the usual performance and scalability enhancements. Among them optimisations for Intel Xeon 5500 (Nehalem)... [23 Sep 2009]
IBM and Microsoft back Zend's cloud API plan
News The two firms have signed up to a Zend initiative to create an open-source application-programming interface for the cloud [23 Sep 2009]
AMD delivers its own server platform
News The low-power platform, formerly code-named Fiorano, offers server builders a combination of a six-core Opteron with a choice of three chipsets from AMD [22 Sep 2009]
Why open-source DNS is 'internet's dirty little secret'
Q&A Jon Shalowitz, general manager at Nominum's new Skye cloud-computing division, says legacy open-source DNS software poses a huge problem for the internet [22 Sep 2009]
- No, he's right (in the end) - Gruntle
- Nope? - Gruntle
- Ridiculous - cantoris
Nominum's Skye puts DNS services in the cloud
News The internet infrastructure company is offering hosted DNS services through its newly created Skye cloud division [22 Sep 2009]
Correction on Ubuntu Karmic GRUB Installation
Blog To Moley, XWJ and others who might have been following the recent discussion of GRUB installation for Karmic, I have learned through a comment on my other blog that there is in fact a way to... [14 Sep 2009]
SAP waiting to build up steam for cloud
Blog German software maker SAP said it is delaying a full-scale launch of its first Saas product, Business ByDesign. SAP has enlisted about 90 businesses to try out the ERP software, which is its... [11 Sep 2009]
Mozilla fixes bugs in Firefox 3.5 and 3.0
Blog Mozilla on Wednesday released two new versions of its browser, Firefox 3.5.3 and 3.0.14, that patch three critical security holes and fix assorted other bugs. The updates can be fetched... [11 Sep 2009]
Dell's 11th generation PowerEdge servers for SMEs
Blog There are plenty of servers aimed at small businesses — and plenty of SMEs still using a beefy desktop PC as a server instead. Dell thinks that's because the average server is too complex to set up... [09 Sep 2009]
