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Rift Servers Get Trial Label, MMO Might See Big Changes

The developers at Trion Worlds have labeled a number of their servers for the MMO Rift as Trial, telling the player base that they are planning to use them in order to try out a number of gameplay and content changes that might then be extended to the full game.The list of the new Trial servers includes: Belmont, Gal...

16 January 2012
04:15 GMT

Hardcore Computer to Showcase Liquid Submersed Systems at SC11

At this year's Supercomputing conference, Hardcore Computer, a company specialized in building HPC systems, will showcase a series of servers that use dielectric liquid in order to cool the components found inside them.Unlike regular water cooling systems, the Hardcore Computer servers are completely emerged in ...

18 October 2011
08:41 GMT

ARM Believes Cortex A15 Is a Contender for x86

After taking almost full control over the mobile space, ARM is now targeting the x86 architecture as the company plans to introduce its upcoming Cortex A15 cores not only in smartphones, tablets, and portable computing devices, but also in servers. The Cortex A15 is the name used by ARM for its next-generation mul...

20 April 2011
02:29 GMT

Gateway Intros New Range of AMD Opteron 6100 Powered Servers

Gateway has just announced a new series of servers built using AMD's recently released Opteron 6100 series of processors that are designed to meet the demands of SMBs, enterprises and public sector environments looking for balanced systems capable of delivering good performances and improved energy efficiency. ...

16 March 2011
11:02 GMT

Supercomputers and High End Servers Set to Merge in the Future

Although in the past the distinction between the supercomputer and the high-performance server market has been extremely clear, it now seems like the line between these types of systems is as thin as it gets and analysts expect that the two will meld in the not-so-distant future.According to EETimes, this trend has n...

14 March 2011
04:41 GMT

World's 'Greenest' x86 Intel Atom - Based Server Shipping from SeaMicro

Energy efficiency is one feature many companies are really looking for as far as servers are concerned, and that's exactly the reason why SeaMicro has developed and started shipping such a product built entirely around Intel's low-power Atom CPU.Touted as being the world's most-energy efficient 64-bit ...

28 February 2011
03:59 GMT

Acer Brings New Server and Storage Products to the US

Although Acer's best-known for its portable computing systems, the company's also actively involved in the server and data-center storage businesses, a family of products that's now unveiling on the US market.We'll have to admit that Acer's offerings are actually quite impressive, as the comp...

22 February 2011
08:12 GMT

IBM Cancels Wide Series of Power6 and Power6+ Servers

The proliferation of IBM's Power7 processors throughout the company's product range has lead to the cancellation of the Power 520 or Power 550 servers, based on the older dual core Power6 or Power6+ processors, the computing giant just making the news official through an announcement letter. The Power 52...

11 February 2011
06:49 GMT

Oracle and Fujitsu Join Forces to Develop Next Generation UNIX Servers

Software giant Oracle and Fujitsu, Japan's largest IT vendor, recently announced that the two companies have extended their collaboration in order to build the next generation of UNIX servers, a move that most likely wants to challenge IBM's and HP's position in this field. The announcement was shor...

11 February 2011
05:17 GMT

Microsoft Strong-Arms Intel into Developing 16-Core Atom Chips for Servers, Says Report

We've talked earlier today about Intel's very serious interest in special solutions for data centers, and now, it's about time to take yet another look at this topic, but this time around, from a fairly different perspective, namely Microsoft's.If you're wondering just what Microsoft has to d...

28 January 2011
09:03 GMT

Lax NASA IT Procedures Miss Sensitive Data Leaks

A document released by the NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) shows that anyone with an eBay account and the money to buy a used computer hard drive can theoretically break into NASA servers, if they purchase used drives that the agency is selling. Weakly-developed IT procedures at the American space agency allow...

9 December 2010
04:25 GMT

Appro Crams 4 Graphics Cards Inside 1U Server

Thanks to the high level of performance demonstrated in highly threaded applications such as video encoding and 3D rendering, GPU computing has really taken off lately, a large number of manufacturers releasing integrated CPU-GPU systems to the market, Appro just raising the ante by offering more GPUs than any other ...

26 November 2010
04:06 GMT

Intel Helps Make Football Helmets Safer

We're pretty sure that finding a relation between chip manufacturer Intel and football (or American football, for those of you living this side of the pond) is not exactly an easy task, but the truth of the matter is that the two are actually related, the company that's behind most of the chips in our compu...

16 November 2010
14:21 GMT

2,880 CPU Cores Crammed Up on Single Supermicro TwinBlade Server Rack

Latest-gen cloud-type deployments typically require some pretty solid data center hardware in the background, and for this reason, the people over at Super Micro computer, a very well-known server technology manufacturer, have just announced the launch of two new AMD Opteron 6100 Series processor-based SuperBlade mod...

15 November 2010
13:31 GMT

The Intel “Cloud 2015” Vision Detailed

We've already told you quite a few things about Intel's plans for the future of cloud computing, but we haven't yet provided you with an overview of the company's overall plans, or what the chip manufacturer calls the “Cloud 2015” vision, and that's exactly what we'll do as f...

29 October 2010
10:11 GMT

Facebook Decides to Double Its Already Massive First Data Center

Facebook is well on its way of becoming the largest website on the planet. It’s also one of the most complex and the day-to-day activities of hundreds of millions of people put a huge strain on its infrastructure. But, flush with funding from eager investors, Facebook has started work on its own data cente...

2 August 2010
05:25 GMT

Facebook Now Has More than 60,000 Servers

Every web startup dreams of amassing millions of users and seeing the kind of growth Facebook or Twitter have. But all this growth may be a curse as much as a blessing if your infrastructure can’t keep up. Looking at Twitter’s recent troubles, it’s an easy point to prove. Facebook, on the other hand...

29 June 2010
04:14 GMT

HP Updates ProLiant Servers with Lynnfield Processors

Approximately two months ago, Santa Clara, California-based chip maker Intel announced the expansion of its line of Xeon server processors with the introduction of the X3400 series, aimed at SMBs looking for affordable computing solutions for their businesses. On that note, one of the world's leading vendors of...

10 November 2009
05:57 GMT

McAfee Launches the Email and Web Security Appliance 5.5

McAfee, one of the world's leading providers of security solutions and antivirus products, announced today the debut of its new Email and Web Security Appliance 5.5, specifically designed to meet the security requirements of SMB customers. The solution, which integrates both email and Web security solutions in a...

5 November 2009
07:15 GMT

WhipTails Unveils the 6TB SSD Tier 9 Storage Appliance

WhipTail, a provider of solid-state drive (SSD) tier 0 appliances, has recently announced the introduction of its new 6TB WhipTail SSD appliance, a 2U storage solution that is said to be the highest-capacity SSD tier 0 appliance available for mid- to large-sized enterprises. According to the company, the new solution...

13 July 2009
04:08 GMT

Battlefield 1943 So Successful, More Servers Are Needed

A lot of people were skeptical about DICE's decision to create and release Battlefield 1943, a game that would only be launched via the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live for now, aimed at offering an experience similar to that of Battlefield 1942 while making it easier for players to get into the game and do dam...

10 July 2009
04:40 GMT

HP Launches Extreme Scale-Out Portfolio Based on ProLiant SL Servers

Hewlett Packard, one of the world's leading vendors of computer systems, has recently announced the expansion of its server portfolio with the introduction of the new Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) series, designed to meet the performance and energy-efficiency requirements of business users. Designed to take advantage...

11 June 2009
03:15 GMT

ASUS Rolls Out Full Lineup of Nehalem-Based Platforms

Taiwanese motherboard maker ASUS has recently announced the introduction of a new lineup of server motherboards, designed to provide professional users with support for Intel's latest Nehalem-EP Xeon processors, the Intel Xeon 5500 Processor series. According to the company, its new motherboards are equipped wit...

3 April 2009
04:54 GMT

Sun Microsystems to Introduce Flash-Based Systems

Sun Microsystems is reported to plan the introduction of Flash-based servers and storage systems in the first half of the next year. The new products are said to be based on the company's earlier adoption of Flash in its ZFS storage platform. According to Sun officials, the use of Flash is able to lower the tota...

10 December 2008
05:28 GMT

Performance of Intel Xeon 7400 Processors Limited by Windows OS

As you probably already know, Intel's first 6-core processors, codenamed “Dunnington,” have been officially launched yesterday, following a couple of months of anticipation. Along with the release of the new Xeon processors, a number of server systems manufacturers are expected to reveal their own s...

16 September 2008
06:31 GMT

IBM to Invest $400 Million in Cloud Computing

Last week, "cloud computing" was in the spotlight, as three major companies announced a joint project to research large-scale computing. The industry giants Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo said that they would provide facilities, software and infrastructure resources to the new joint project. Following the announcem...

4 August 2008
13:02 GMT

Virtualization, Increasingly Important for Dell and AMD

Virtualization is becoming an increasingly important concept among the IT managers of various medium-sized and large companies nowadays, simply because this technology could actually prove to save a lot of money (not to mention a lot of electrical power) in the future. And since this particular branch has become such...

8 July 2008
06:40 GMT

The Truth Behind Dell's Energy Efficient Servers

Dell is among the biggest vendors of computer systems, and proof of this can be found in that it currently holds the number two spot in the notebook market, being topped only by HP. From the countless reasons that make Dell hold such a high position on the charts, the fact that people trust its products probably weig...

20 June 2008
10:23 GMT

Sun Microsystems to Implement SSDs in Its Server Lineup

Sun Microsystems, a leading manufacturer of server systems, is going to integrate SSDs in several series of its machines. Apparently, the manufacturer is trying to lower the power consumption of its machines and reduce the total cost of ownership, while boosting the overall performance of the servers."Flash SSD is th...

6 June 2008
02:56 GMT

Fujitsu-Siemens Adds ServerView PAN Manager to PRIMERGY Servers

Fujitsu-Siemens Computers, one of the largest manufacturers of computer systems for both consumer and business users, has recently announced that it will start delivering ServerView PAN Manager. This move comes as a means by which the company intends to extend its innovative FlexFrame Infrastructure to its PRIMERGY S...

19 May 2008
06:46 GMT

YouTube Sending Out Spam!

Now, that's pretty bad! A group of researchers has disclosed the fact that YouTube servers have been used to send spam. Of course, this has nothing to do with the company. Spammers have tapped into YouTube and are now having their way with the servers, sending out huge quantities of unwanted messages! Now, we ge...

5 October 2007
07:03 GMT

Romanians Could Take Down The Internet!

Hackers attacking servers today has become something common. Though only a few are successful - they strive every day to do some damage to high profile companies. VeriSign - a giant amongst IT companies, and which operates two of the Internet's thirteen root servers - has complained that a successful denial of s...

26 September 2007
10:17 GMT

Exploit Crashing WoW's Servers Discovered!

A piece I just happened to stumble upon, posted on Theregister.co says that "Players in the World of Warcraft discovered an exploit that crashes the game's servers late Sunday, causing massive outages throughout the night." Blizzard is awfully quiet on this one, but has made a few statements just so they'd ...

28 August 2007
03:59 GMT

Dell Join Forces with Novell and Microsoft for Linux Servers

The news that Dell decided to ship pre-installed Ubuntu Linux desktops came as a blast among the Linux and open source community. While the euphoria is still on some Linux users' minds, a sudden rumor started to fire up the news channels all around the Internet: Dell joins the Microsoft-Novell partnership. Some...

7 May 2007
14:00 GMT

Dell Servers For Europe, Africa and the Middle-East

Dell introduced two new servers for IT buyers, the PowerEdge 2970 and the Energy Smart 2970. The PowerEdge 2970 is stated to draw 34% less power and up to 105 percent greater performance per watt over the previous generation of dual core servers. The new special feature the servers have is the ability to upgrade seam...

11 April 2007
06:49 GMT


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