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). A company spokesperson for Rackable said that an offer had...
[April 1, 2009, 17:08]
Rackable announces low-power rack system
News Rackable Systems has redesigned its racks for corporate systems, with the aim of reducing the amount of power the racks use. CloudRack C2 provides server densities with "up to 1,280 cores per cabinet and 99 percent energy efficiencies", Rackable...
[March 27, 2009, 14:47]
Rackable takes SGI name after purchase
News The datacentre hardware specialist Rackable Systems is to adopt SGI as its new name across the globe, after completing its acquisition of Silicon Graphics, Inc. Rackable announced the move in a statement on Monday.
[May 12, 2009, 13:05]
Rackable's revenue hit by falling sales
News Rackable Systems reported a loss of $19.5m in the fourth quarter and an overall drop in quarterly sales of 65 percent. Full-year revenue was $247.4m, down from $350.7m the previous year.was a tough year for our industry and for Rackable", Mark...
[February 13, 2009, 15:38]
Rackable servers aim to undercut virtualisation
News Server maker Rackable has introduced a line of datacentre-oriented systems that it says can provide a lower-cost alternative to virtualisation. Rackable's MicroSlice architecture achieves a similar effect through the use of small Micro-ATX and Mini...
[January 23, 2009, 7:22]
Rackable puts data centre in a box
News Rackable Systems has begun selling a data centre packed into a modular storage container, getting to market ahead of a rival system from Sun. The idea is similar to Sun's Blackbox, but Rackable's shorter servers can face toward the central aisle...
[March 27, 2007, 9:50]
Rackable Systems, Inc. C1001 Eco-Logical Server Competitive Power Consumption and Power Efficiency Study
White Papers Rackable Systems, Inc.commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the power consumption and power efficiency of its C1001 Eco-Logical Server against similarly configured, low power-draw Intel Xeon processor-based 1U rack-mount servers from Dell...
[May 17, 2009, 1:48]
IDF goes beyond chips
News Rackable Systems used the Intel Developer Forum to introduce its ICE Cube, a new modular data centre. Rackable Systems chief executive Mark Barrenechea stands inside an ICE Cube, which is contained inside a standard 40 feet by eight feet ISO...
[September 21, 2007, 15:48]
Red Hat revenues rise
News The agreement with Rackable Systems involves joint marketing. Also in the quarter, the company signed a deal with Rackable Systems, Szulik said. Net income increased 603 percent from the year-earlier quarter to $10.7m, or five cents per share.
[June 18, 2004, 9:15]
IBM cuts ribbon on portable datacentre
News IBM has become the latest vendor to begin offering a complete datacentre packed inside an industry-standard shipping container, following in the footsteps of Sun, Rackable and others. Sun introduced its Project Blackbox container-based datacentre...
[December 3, 2009, 13:16]
MetaRam: Putting terabytes of memory into servers
News Servers and workstations from Rackable Systems, Colfax International and other manufacturers focused on high-end computing have also said they will put these DIMMs into products in the first quarter of 2008.
[February 26, 2008, 11:26]
Wheeling on the mobile data centre
Blog Rackable Systems' Mobirack uses multicore chips to produce a datacentre more at the shopping trolley end of the scale, but it can have 128 cores, and up to 40TB of data. A data centre on wheels might look strange, but it's an illustration of some...
[December 22, 2008, 7:49]
Green Grid welcomes Intel
News The company is now part of the effort and is included in a list of members along with AMD, Dell, HP, IBM, Rackable Systems, SprayCool, Sun, VMware and APC. The Green Grid, an IT industry effort to encourage the reduction of power consumption...
[February 26, 2007, 15:43]
AMD claims power saving in updated Shanghai
News The processor is available in eight server systems from HP, Rackable Systems, Dell and Sun. AMD on Monday updated its line of 45nm quad-core Opteron processors with five new energy-efficient models aimed at helping datacentre managers cut back on...
[January 26, 2009, 16:05]
Server maker expands dual-board server line
News It's not the only one in the market, either: Rackable Systems has gone public, and SuperMicro is in the process of doing so. Open Source Systems, a small Silicon Valley server maker, is expanding its Gemini line of machines, which combine dual...
[March 19, 2007, 9:43]
AMD and Intel prepare for war
News US Computer retailers Best Buy and Circuit City, along with hardware manufacturers Sony, Sun, Acer, Gateway, Lenovo, NEC-CI, Rackable and Tech Data have agreed to AMD's subpoena for information. Lawyers with Intel and AMD will sit down next month...
[July 18, 2005, 9:00]
