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]
Dell PowerEdge T710
Review Dell's PowerEdge T710 is ideal for branch office or medium-sized business use, where performance, expandability and flexibility are key attributes. [21 Sep 2009]
Ten crucial server attributes
Photo Servers are the workhorses of business IT, but what are their most important features? [18 Sep 2009]
From The Labs: A plug-sized server 
Video Servers come in all shapes and sizes, but few are smaller than the Tonido Plug. Charles McLellan investigates [15 Sep 2009]
- Fascinating, Thanks - J.A. Watson
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]
Cisco, EMC may form joint tech-services venture
News The tech giants are reportedly in talks to create a services company that would push their products in the datacentre [04 Sep 2009]
Red Hat builds one API for many clouds
News The Deltacloud project aims to provide a 'cloud broker' API that will allow applications, scripts and tools to be created once and then used across public and private clouds [04 Sep 2009]
Worldwide server sales continue to fall
News IBM and Dell manage to gain a hold in market share, amid a carnage in declining sales revenues, leaving Sun as the weakest link [03 Sep 2009]
