Dell has unveiled four new Precision workstations that have been designed for maximum upgrade flexibility. The Precision T range workstations …
Intel acquires HPC interconnect assets from Cray
Intel has agreed to buy specific high-performance-computing interconnect assets from server company Cray, the chip maker said on Tuesday. Intel …
Intel profit dips as PC and server chip sales decline
Intel yesterday reported its first-quarter earning results for fiscal 2012, with profit dropping on a slowdown in PC and server …
Intel plans ‘superchip’ for high-performance computing
Intel this week said it was investing in the development of a “superchip” for high-performance computing systems that the company …
HP’s server strategy focuses on SSDs, storage bottleneck
Hewlett-Packard (HP) says it will address the I/O bottleneck created by internal and external storage in its next generation of …
Intel aims for faster Thunderbolt with PCI-Express 3.0
Intel is working to boost data transfer speeds with a faster pipe on Thunderbolt, a high-speed connector technology that link …
AMD buys SeaMicro for $334 mn, enters server hardware business
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced yesterday it is buying low-power server vendor SeaMicro, a surprise move that puts AMD in …
Oracle’s Exalytics now available, set for showdown with SAP’s HANA
Oracle announced the general availability of Exalytics, the latest in its family of specialised appliances and a direct competitor to …
HP launches Z1 Workstation
HP today unveiled the Z1 Workstation with a 68.6 cm (27”) diagonal display, featuring Intel Xeon procesors, NVIDIA Quadro graphics …
Intel’s 10G ‘Romley’ server to spur Ethernet switch growth
When Intel ships its long-awaited 10G-enabled server platform later this quarter, it’s expected to have a significant impact on the Ethernet switching …
Startup launches array tuned for unstructured, structured data
Startup Starboard Storage Systems today came out of quiet mode with its first product: a storage array that discerns between …
Tilera reveals new 36-core chip
Tilera today announced availability of its new 36-core processor, which the company says can trump traditional x86 server chips from …
Intel reports strong Q4 revenue
Intel reported strong revenue and profit growth in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2011, overcoming a sharp drop in revenue …
RISC, Itanium lose out to x86 in Q3 server market: Gartner
The worldwide server market grew by unit shipments and revenue in the third quarter this year, but the downward spiral …
AMD’s 16-core Opteron chips arrive after wait
After a brief delay and more than a year of chatter, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today announced the availability of …
Calxeda’s chip boosts ARM’s server fight with Intel
Calxeda recently announced its EnergyCore, an integrated server chip with an ARM processor that could provide the groundwork for ARM …
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Fault tolerant servers from Stratus have redundant components and can ensure annual downtime is less than 6 minutes Stratus Technologies …
Intel shows off tablet with upcoming Atom chip
Intel on Tuesday for the first time showed working prototypes of tablets with Google’s Android OS and the chip maker’s …
Oracle sets new world-record on SAP Sales and Distribution-Parallel Standard Application Benchmark
Oracle today announced a new world-record result on the SAP Sales and Distribution-Parallel (SD-Parallel) standard application benchmark running the SAP …
Start-up releases all-in-one VMware server, storage appliance
Start-up Nutanix yesterday launched its first product, a slim, virtualised server that is clustered together with solid state and hard …