Can tech giants talk you out of your datacentre?
Comment Several vendors are racing to build datacentres that will enable them to offer more internet-based services to consumers and enterprises over the next 10 years [03 Jul 2009]
Optical servers: at the heart of tomorrow's data centre?
Blog Servers of tomorrow will be optically powered, and consume a fraction of the power they do today. This means less heat, less energy consumption and, of course, data centres whose compute power is... [02 Jul 2009]
Lenovo introduces latest ThinkServer lineup
News The servers are intended for small to medium-sized businesses and are 'up to three times faster' than their predecessors, according to Lenovo [02 Jul 2009]
Water-cooled IBM supercomputer to heat buildings
News Surplus heat from the warm-water-cooled supercomputer will heat university buildings at research partner ETH's Zurich campus [24 Jun 2009]
IBM's Roadrunner holds onto Top500 crown
News IBM's Roadrunner and Cray's Jaguar retain top two positions on latest Top500 supercomputer list, which also saw four new systems in the top 10 [24 Jun 2009]
Sun polishes up its Constellation HPC system
News The company has upgraded software and hardware in its Constellation System supercomputer platform, in part to provide better support for cloud computing [23 Jun 2009]
Platform moves into cloud-management tools
News Veteran grid company Platform Computing has released cloud-management software to aggregate virtual and physical resources from any provider [23 Jun 2009]
When supercomputing benchmarks fail to add up
Comment Using benchmarks to choose a supercomputer is more complex than just picking the fastest system, says Andrew Jones [18 Jun 2009]
HP takes aim at 'scale-out' datacentres
News New ProLiants are at the centre of HP's push into the 'scale-out' market, where datacentres with thousands of servers deal with cloud, Web 2.0 and high-performance computing [12 Jun 2009]
Cisco enters rack-mount server market
News The company plans to move into the rack-mount server business as part of its 'unified computing' push [05 Jun 2009]
HP delivers Istanbul-powered servers
News The seven ProLiants built on AMD's new six-core Opteron chip come with heat- and power-management functions designed to drive down energy consumption [03 Jun 2009]
VMware aims for datacentre unity
Blog VMware's vSphere 4.0, released just over a month ago, is aimed at helping VMware stay at least two steps ahead of Microsoft, now its biggest competitor in the virtualisation market; VMware's... [01 Jun 2009]
IDC: Biggest quarterly drop in 12 years for servers
News First-quarter figures for server revenue and shipments are the worst seen by the research firm for years, as buyers pull back on spending [29 May 2009]
HP refreshes small-business portfolio
News The manufacturer's new SME line-up includes new server, storage, virtualisation and client devices, as well as new printers [29 May 2009]
Clearpace puts archived data in the cloud
News The software vendor introduces Rainstor, which uses Amazon's cloud tools to store customers' legacy data in the cloud [22 May 2009]
Dell shows Via-based, low-power server
News Dell has taken a novel route by putting Via's Nano processor into its sub 30-watt XS11-VX8 server [20 May 2009]
HP wants your data
Blog Just finished a day at HP's advanced data centre – er, centre – at Isle d'Abeau, near Lyon. It was useful to catch-up with HP's thinking with respect to data centres, and a chance to talk to one of... [15 May 2009]
Fujitsu launches 18-blade 'Dynamic Cube'
News The manufacturer is taking pre-orders for a new Primergy all-in-one blade server system that supports up to 18 blades and includes a new cooling system [12 May 2009]
Rackable takes SGI name after purchase
News Now the acquisition is completed, the Rackable name will live on as the brand for SGI's x86 cluster compute products, but the company as a whole will be known as SGI [12 May 2009]
Cambridge rents out HPC for the cloud
News This 'democratisation of HPC' gets underway later this year, when Cambridge University begins leasing processing time on its Darwin supercomputer [11 May 2009]
Oracle wants to sell proprietary appliances? Fat chance...
Blog So Oracle, having bought Sun, wants to retain Sun's hardware portfolio. How much sense does that make? Look at it this way. Server and data centre managers love the way that servers have become... [11 May 2009]
London datacentre to power local community
News The Telehouse West facility in the Docklands area will export waste heat from its cooling systems to provide energy for surrounding homes and businesses [16 Apr 2009]
Start-up promises to speed web data access
News Two appliances from start-up Schooner use solid-state drives to give faster delivery of data for the web [15 Apr 2009]
Sun unveils new x64 server lineup
News The company has introduced a line of x64 servers and workstations, aiming to integrate networking technologies, advanced thermal management and open software [15 Apr 2009]
Rackable puts $25m offer in for SGI
Blog On Wednesday, the storage supplier Rackable Systems surprised many people with the announcement that it wanted to buy the assets of Silicon Graphics International (SGI) for $25m (£17.3m). One... [01 Apr 2009]
IBM could buy Sun Microsystems
Blog Talks are possibly underway for the systems giant IBM to buy Sun Microsystems, according a report in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in what could be a grab for market share. However, the... [18 Mar 2009]
HP 2133 Mini-Note / Fedora 10 Installation Instructions
Blog I have posted instructions for installing Fedora 10 on the HP 2133 on the Linux Laptop Wiki. It's not too difficult, and doesn't require compiling the openchrome driver, because the latest SVN... [17 Mar 2009]
Microsoft says it's a SaaS mistake
Blog A Microsoft speaker at a conference on Monday came out with some interesting news that I reported on ZDNet UK. The news was that after it appeared that Microsoft wanted to cut resellers out of the... [11 Mar 2009]
Efficiency is key at Data Centre World
Blog Power and energy savings and green IT in its own right are all by products of saving money, according to those running the biggest energy users in IT, data centre managers. At least that was a... [24 Feb 2009]
Intel plots the dynamic, scalable datacentre
Blog Intel’s upcoming new chip architecture, code-named Nehalem had a design based on a straightforward principle of modern system design. To run a computer you need a microprocessor and to run a very... [20 Feb 2009]
