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First Intel Micro-Server Atom Chip Detailed

Looks like Intel is not lagging in its development of micro-server central processing units, having just started sample shipments of its first Atom-based system-on-chip. Anyone wondering what exactly Intel was working on besides the recently benchmarked Core i7 3770K high-end Ivy Bridge CPU (and its family) now hav...

2 February 2012
08:49 GMT

Apple Updates Lion Server Apps with Server Admin Tools 10.7.3

Server Admin Tools 10.7.3 is now available from Apple. The package includes the latest versions of a number of applications targeting Lion Server. Comprising Podcast Composer, Server Admin, Server Monitor, System Image Utility, Workgroup Manager and Xgrid Admin, the Server Admin Tool 10.7.3 update includes the follo...

2 February 2012
03:38 GMT

Lion Server Updated with Tons of Enhancements

Weighing in at 1GB, OS X Lion Server 10.7.3 was released yesterday in tandem with the Client Lion update. OS X 10.7.3 Server includes some of the fixes and enhancements delivered in the consumer version of Lion, but also packs a ton of exclusive changes. OS X Lion Update 10.7.3 (Server) “is recommended for all...

2 February 2012
02:52 GMT

New Episode in Itanium Saga Sees Oracle Lose in a Move Against HP

One wouldn't think that a server processor could cause such a big fuss, but the whole Itanium debacle has gotten very heated, leading to a direct clash between Oracle and HP, the latter having, apparently, gained the upper hand. This isn't a case of patent infringement, like the quarrel between Samsung an...

1 February 2012
09:09 GMT

AMD Opteron 6200 CPUs Start to Use Inphi Memory

Inphi Corporation has just announced that AMD's Opteron 6200 series of processors is ready to use its load-reduced dual-inline memory modules (LRDIMMs) featuring Inphi's Isolation Memory Buffer (iMB). Of course, it would be much more accurate to say that Inphi's memory is finally ready to work in ser...

31 January 2012
09:44 GMT

PS3 Media Server 1.50.1 Improves Audio and Video Synchronization

A new build for PS3 Media Server is out, tackling a set of issues available in the previous release. Apart from eliminating problems, this build also updates a part of its components such as MediaInfo, JRE auto-download or FFmpeg suite. First on the list of changes in PS3 Media Server 1.50.1 is improved audio/video ...

30 January 2012
05:55 GMT

Buy World of Warcraft Servers from Blizzard, Perform Charity

If you were wondering what happened with the old hardware after Blizzard inevitably upgraded its server infrastructure, you just got your answer: charity. Blizzard just put 350 HP Blade servers up for auction on eBay. They aren't just any servers, but ones with name plates indicating the realm they maintaine...

26 January 2012
11:11 GMT

I-O Data LANDisk NAS Server Debuts

NAS devices continue to play an important role in home and small office networks, so I-O Data figured it was time for a new one to make its appearance. The market for network-attached storage devices has just grown by a tiny bit, courtesy of I-O Data, whose research and development team completed the LANDisk HDL-Z2...

25 January 2012
10:08 GMT

AMD Opteron 6200 CPUs Are the Best Server Processors, Linley Group Claims

Consumers may have been miffed by Bulldozer's failure to live up to its hype, but the people on the server market have a much higher opinion of the CPUs, apparently. It appears that the “Bulldozer” architecture is definitely not unloved on the server market, even if its consumer-oriented incarnatio...

23 January 2012
05:55 GMT

Thecus Unveils N2800 High-end NAS Server

Thecus has just launched the N2800 NAS server, a redesigned version of the N2200XXX, according to user demands.More than a NAS device, it can act as a full-blown media hub, being able to read memory cards (SD/SDHC/MMC) and connect to other storage devices via USB 3.0 (1 port).An HDMI output even lets owners directly ...

16 January 2012
11:26 GMT

Wireless Networks Tested for Servers, Improve Performance

We suppose it was just a matter of time before even servers and data centers started using wireless broadband. It so happens that Microsoft and the University of Washington tested wireless networks on servers. Since data centers sometimes get overloaded during peak times, administrators usually require them for ext...

16 January 2012
11:08 GMT

WD Intros My Book Live Duo Personal Cloud Storage System

Looks like Western Digital is catering to the needs of people who want backups of all their files, having invented the My Book Live Duo. The company describes this item as a “personal cloud storage” that makes a copy of all files stored on the systems connected to it. It relies on an 800 MHz CPU and ha...

6 January 2012
04:18 GMT

Intel Releases Many Ivy Bridge Xeon Chips This Spring

Looks like some central processing units we have already spotted have been given actual prices, only a day or so after their specifications got leaked. The Xeon series of server CPUs is the Intel product line that fell under the watchful eye of web explorers recently. The result was yet another episode where Inte...

4 January 2012
02:43 GMT

ASUS Mini-ITX Motherboard Makes Any Home Server Fancy

Some information surfaced about a small form factor motherboard that ASUS is working on and which is supposed to help build both servers and industrial applications.The D25NM10-I/CSM mainboard features the mini-ITX form factor and, like most of its kind, comes complete with its own processor.More specifically, the c...

3 January 2012
18:21 GMT

Intel Server Motherboard Holds 8-Core CPUs and 1TB RAM

While it is working on its new and strong consumer processors, Intel is also developing new server hardware for the Xeon series of chips.Intel may not be famous for its motherboards, but that does not mean it is not part of this IT segment.In fact, the company was found to be working on this very sort of product.Int...

28 December 2011
02:58 GMT

'Borderville' Atom 'Centerton' Chip Is Intel's Answer to ARM Servers

ARM wants, and just might, get a foothold in the server market starting next year, as an omen of things to come, but Intel really doesn't seem amenable to the idea. In fact, seeing that ARM PCs are an interesting idea to 40% of PC makers, and with ARM's server goal public knowledge, Intel acted. In come...

7 December 2011
09:32 GMT

IBM and HP Lead Server Market, IDC Finds

In what probably won't surprise those versed in server industry knowledge, HP and IBM ended up taking the leading positions during the third quarter of 2011. After somehow getting the leading role on the tablet market, HP also ended up on top in the server field, more or less tied with IBM at 29.8% share (thei...

2 December 2011
12:31 GMT

Intel Says HP's Recent Move Won't Harm Itanium

Yet again, the Intel Itanium server platform is making the news, this time because Intel is speaking on the implications of HP's recent announcement. As we mentioned here, HP decided to more or less combine the power of Xeon chips with what Itanium can bring to the table. In other words, the Odyssey will inc...

24 November 2011
16:41 GMT

HP Itanium Servers Sell Less and Less

HP may be paying Intel to keep making Itanium processors, and is supposed to keep doing so for years, but it might soon come to pass that this isn't a viable marketing tactic anymore. For those who don't know or remember, Oracle, earlier this year (2011) said it was no longer making new software for Itani...

23 November 2011
14:11 GMT

AMD Opteron 6200 Chip Enables Mighty Dell PowerEdge Server

Dell's PowerEdge series of servers just got their latest and greatest series member, one that is, in great detail, described as much better than the competing solutions from HP and IBM Dell says, in its announcement, that the PowerEdge C6145 gets its might from the AMD Opteron 6200 series of high-tier processo...

23 November 2011
09:11 GMT

Oracle Accuses HP of Paying Intel for Itanium, HP Admits It

HP and Oracle have been exchanging barbs over the Itanium server processor platform for months, and the latest, big accusations from Oracle turned out to be true. Granted, as with any court bashing, each side is doing its best to make its case as big and strong as possible. Oracle took its turn the other day, say...

23 November 2011
02:32 GMT

Intel Xeon E5 Server CPU Performance Detailed

With the desktop version of its Sandy Bridge-E processors out and about, Intel is now focusing its attention towards the server version of these chips, the Xeon E5, and has recently provided the press with a series of new details about these CPUs.Intel's Xeon-E5 processors are supposed to replace the company...

17 November 2011
20:21 GMT

AMD Ready Solutions for Servers Puts Opteron 6200 CPUs to Work

AMD may have a full range of server processors, but they aren't going to sell themselves, not well enough anyway, so it established a new collaborative effort for their promotion. Then again, the AMD Ready Solutions for servers is as much a promotion plan for the Opteron 6200 series of chips as it is for the m...

9 November 2011
09:05 GMT

Xorg Server 1.11.2 Brings Lots of Improvements

Xorg Server, an open source implementation of the X Window System, has been upgraded to 1.11.2, bringing fixes for various crashes and corrects issues from the previous release. Xorg Server 1.11.2 comes with a hefty changelog and there are no shortages of updates and fixes. Highlights of Xorg Server 1.11.2:· S...

7 November 2011
05:30 GMT

HP's 'Project Moonshot' Server Initiative Detailed

We already mentioned that HP has become the first reason of alarm for Intel by adopting ARM server designs and, true enough, the 'Project Moonshot' low-energy server technology got officially unraveled. According to this press release, HP isn't going to take its sweet time developing newer, low-power...

2 November 2011
06:24 GMT

Alarms Blare for Intel as HP Adopts ARM-Based Data Center Designs

As ARM begins making chips usable in servers, even the big players on the server and data center markets are showing interest in the possibility of adopting them instead of x86 chips. Intel's x86 architecture has basically been, for a long time, the holder of a monopoly, of sorts, over servers, data centers an...

2 November 2011
04:21 GMT

Intel's Upcoming Xeon E5-2600 CPUs Get Priced - Report

After at the end of September we published the prices of a series of upcoming Xeon E5-1600 series processors based on the company's high-performance Sandy Bridge-E architecture, a new report has now come to detail the MSRP of the chip maker's dual-socket Xeon E5 CPUs.The upcoming E5-2600 server processor ra...

28 October 2011
15:31 GMT

FileZilla Server 0.9.40

FileZilla Server has reached a new build and, just like in the case of the previous version, changes do not come in a great number. The three points in the changelog of version 0.9.40 of the application cover connection-related issues.The new release comes with a firmer service that no longer crashes upon connecting ...

24 October 2011
04:32 GMT

Super-Efficient Supermicro Servers Help Japan Earthquake Relief Efforts

It has been months since the disaster that hit Japan on March 10, 2011, but things are still far from restored, and they might never be, though Supermicro, among others, still tried to help in its own way. It is too late to go back and save all the lives that were lost during the earthquake, and subsequent tsunamis...

13 October 2011
14:11 GMT

Superb Mini Server 1.6.2 Has Linux Kernel 2.6.39.3

The developers behind the Superb Mini Server (SMS) server operating system proudly announced last evening, October 10th, the immediate availability for download of the Superb Mini Server 1.6.2 release.Superb Mini Server 1.6.2 comes after three months of development and it brings updated packages and various improveme...

11 October 2011
10:50 GMT

IBM to Deliver 23 Petabytes Storage and Cluster Server to Japanese Researchers

IBM announced recently that the company has reached an agreement with  the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization of Japan to develop for the group the "KEK Central Computer System," a server and storage solution that will be able to handle the petabytes of experiment data managed by the organization.The ...

29 September 2011
10:22 GMT

ScaleMP Collaborates with AMD on Better Opteron Servers

Advanced Micro Devices may already have the hardware needed to power servers, but it could use some help on the software side, assistance that, apparently, it now got, courtesy of ScaleMP. Users might not exactly know what ScaleMP deals in, since it isn't actually a company with a stake on the consumer front...

20 September 2011
10:57 GMT

D-Link Improves Small and Medium Business IT Environments

D-Link has long been a supplier of networking solutions, especially for the business/enterprise sector, and it is this very field that its latest series of products aims to serve. When it comes to networking infrastructures for small and medium businesses, there is a need for a balance between costs, performance,...

20 September 2011
08:58 GMT

RealVNC Actually Brings Server Functionality to BIOS

Servers may have just taken the next big step in terms of functionality thanks to RealVNC, whose activities at this year's IDF, involving the VNC (Virtual Network Computing) technology, turned out to be hard to ignore. Servers of today are definitely very advanced to what they were like one or two decades ag...

19 September 2011
06:03 GMT

AMD Sees Newly-Released 16-Core Chips as Priority

AMD may have hoped to succeed in launching the Bulldozer during the third quarter of 2011, but even with the formal release of the Interlagos, the Bulldozer is still not coming out in time. When Advanced Micro Devices issued a certain press release yesterday, part of the consumer base no doubt rejoiced. Basic...

8 September 2011
09:55 GMT

HP Offers VirtualSystem for VMware

HP may have said it wants to back out of the PC segment, but its enterprise presence is still strong, as proven by its most recent press announcement, which deals with virtualization.Virtualization is a sort of data center implementation that has been gaining traction fairly quickly over the past few months.Unfortun...

29 August 2011
09:44 GMT

The Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud Contest Starts August 30, 2011

Microsoft is giving away two Xbox 360 4GB Kinect console bundles to just as many winners of a Cloud contest it’s hosting at the end of this month. The Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud Contest will debut next week, on August 30, 2011, and will last only for another extra day, namely August 31. Customers will...

26 August 2011
06:35 GMT

Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Site Launches

The newly-launched Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform website is designed to be an one-stop destination for customers building private Cloud using the company’s server technologies. However, in addition to a range of resources on private Clouds, the new site also offers information, guidance and products nece...

26 August 2011
05:52 GMT

Fourth Quarter Gets Ready to Welcome Intel E5-2600 CPUs

Intel has already detailed the new Itanium server chips, but it also has the E6-2600 series of Xeon units in store, their estimated time of arrival having now been discovered. Recent reports about Intel have revealed delays, updates on chip series believed to be dying and even quad-core Core i7 inbound models, amon...

26 August 2011
03:37 GMT

Dell Releases New EqualLogic Data Centers

In keeping with the 'tradition' on the data center market, Dell released a whole collection of hardware products, as well as accompanying software solutions for virtualization and cloud infrastructure.Dell's EqualLogic product line saw new blood today, in the shape of the EqualLogic PS4100 Series and ...

22 August 2011
10:19 GMT

Itanium Uncertainties Strike at HP Business Critical Revenues

Intel may still be speaking of the Itanium and that it plans to keep pushing it forward, but the waves caused by Oracle's decision to drop support for it were far reaching enough that HP's revenues swayed.HP and Oracle ended up taking things to court after the latter said it would no longer support the In...

20 August 2011
05:36 GMT

Intel Describes Poulson Itanium Server Processor

The Itanium architecture was at the core of a certain dispute a couple of months ago, but whether or not the architecture would go on has been proven beyond doubt now that the Poulson is arriving.Some may remember the rather heated debate, and subsequent court actions, that sprung from Oracle's decision to drop...

20 August 2011
03:54 GMT

Samsung Serves Servers with Efficient 32 GB DDR3

Samsung has not been sitting idly by the side of the server market as things moved forward, having chosen, instead, to actually try and steer things its own way, this once revealing a power-efficient, 32 GB DDR3 module.Consumers may be awed by the sight of an 8 GB and even some 4 GB memory modules, but there is a ce...

17 August 2011
10:55 GMT

Synology DiskStation DS411 Joins NAS Lineup

NAS devices have already carved a segment of the IT industry just of themselves, so there are companies that center much of their activities in this field, like Synology, whose latest product was launched just today (August 17, 2011).Synology already has quite the NAS portfolio, but it definitely doesn't seem e...

17 August 2011
09:18 GMT

AMD Demos 16-Core Opteron Interlagos Chip

Advanced Micro Devices may have managed to snatch some of Intel's CPU market share during the last financial quarter, but it looks like not everything in its camp is going well, now that the latest demonstration of the next-generation AMD Opteron chip was carried out.The range of Fusion APUs for personal comput...

4 August 2011
02:35 GMT

Upcoming Amazon Tablet Will Have IceWarp Support

Since Amazon is going to enter the tablet market as well, it will need content and other features, and it looks like at least one unified communications server service will have full support for the product when the time comes. The tablet market has been seeing new arrival for a while now, with Dell even deciding...

9 July 2011
06:00 GMT

Alien Arena 2011 7.51 Review

Alien Arena is yet another multiplayer shooter that tries to carry the torch of old games from the last century, literally. It strives to do the best it can, with its technology, and it does it rather well, but there is almost nothing spectacular about this title and this can be seen in the gameplay and the replay va...

30 June 2011
13:30 GMT

Cloud Revenue to Amount to $9.4 Billion in 4 Years

Financial reports and forecasts are made all the time, and this occasion is marked by IDC publishing its findings in regards to the probable evolution of the cloud market over the next few years.The thing about online storage is that it allows users to save and access their work from any systems and any place in the...

29 June 2011
10:23 GMT

VIA Challenges Intel and AMD on Server Market

It appears that a certain maker of microprocessors intends to increase its currently small stake in the worldwide chip market by beginning to offer processors for those servers where power efficiency is a prime concern. The server market has always been a primary component of the IT industry, and it looks like it...

25 June 2011
05:02 GMT

HP Sues Oracle Outright Over Itanium

HP and Oracle have been snapping at each other for months ever since the latter dropped Itanium support, and it looks like the conflict has finally gotten to the point of legal action, started by the former.Users keeping track of the happenings on the server market might know of the tensions between HP and Oracle.Th...

16 June 2011
03:41 GMT


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