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Facebook's first data center DRENCHED by ACTUAL CLOUD

Revealed: Cloud downed by ... cloud!
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firing range - target in cross hairs

Lenovo sets sights on server, storage incumbents

If not IBM's System x and BladeCenter, then what?

Students outraged: Computer refuses to do any work for entire week

One claims to have decided what to do with her life, but UCAS won't let her
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Opinion

A picture of a cat.
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Are your servers PETS or CATTLE?

Update The word “cloud” has become horribly over-used. Your correspondent has even heard hosted PABXs referred to as “cloud telephony”.

News

Rackgo systems include servers, storage, switching, and batteries

Server racket 'challenging' in Q1, says IDC

Windows takes a dip, RISC/Unix cannonballs, Linux defies gravity
Four cats wanting to chew on Windows and Linux

AMD takes on Atom S server chips with 'Kyoto' Opteron Xs

Corralling multimedia and other flops-hungry workloads onto microservers
Rackgo systems include servers, storage, switching, and batteries

ODMs and DIYs chomp x86 server racket

Shipments and revenues take a dive in Q1 – thanks a lot, EMEA
SoftLayer's data center

SoftLayer sticks with Super Micro servers, ponders Open Compute

It's all about the supply chain - THEN the price
data centre

Missed the Hyper V Virtual machine migration training?

Free training It’s here in recorded format for you

Intel's answer to ARM: Customisable x86 chips with HIDDEN POWERS

Let's all play find the secret hardware register
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HP preps Project Kraken for monster HANA in-memory jobs

Sixteen Ivy Bridge-EX sockets and 12TB in a single image
The Roadrunner two-socket, Open Compute motherboard designed by AMD and friends

Financial firms start lining up for AMD Roadrunner systems

For more than a few large-scale data center operators and supercomputer centers in the world, AMD's Opteron processors are still an important part of their infrastructure. But over the past few years, as Intel has got its Xeon act together and AMD has had some issues (to put it politely) the tier-one server makers have not exactly given Opteron a lot of love. Yet it may not matter all that much, now that the companies who are official suppliers of Open Compute iron can start peddling systems based on the "Roadrunner" Opteron motherboard.
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IBM to push Linux apps on Power iron in China, then elsewhere

IBM is opening a Power Systems Linux Center in Beijing, China, in the hopes of getting more local ISVs interested in its Power Systems iron and luring them away from x86-based systems. With the Power Systems business taking it on the chin in IBM's first quarter – revenues fell 32 per cent compared to a year ago – you can bet that Big Blue is trying to light a fire under its Linux-on-Power efforts.