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Big Blue misses Q1 targets big-time thanks to systems shortfall

$1.4bn in charges for "workload rebalancing" – aka layoffs – coming in Q2
Rackgo systems include servers, storage, switching, and batteries

Data centers can't save Intel's first quarter

But they might save 2013 if Atom and Xeon chips take off

Opinion

Fritz Pfleumer with his magnetic tape recorder

Appliances are the new data centre onesie

It has been a fun and very profitable couple of decades for upstart IT server and systems software makers.
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

Ubuntu RHS teaser

Dell, Canonical tag team on Ubuntu Server tune-up for PowerEdgies

Expanding official support from cloudy boxes to general-purpose workhorses
Quanta logo

Taiwanese giant Quanta sold one out of every seven servers last year

Exclusive 'Hyperscale serving came to us, and we own it'
The CX420-S1 squeezing out a server node and a power supply

Fujitsu makes Windows Server 2012 see double

Double-stuffed and clustered Primergy racker aimed at SMBs
Super Micro's 8-node FatTwin server

Review: Supermicro FatTwin

Trevor likes his servers hot and dense
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Cheeky Boston fires up x86-to-ARM porting cloud for server apps

Chuckles about 'ARM as a service' and AaaS all around
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The second rev of the Oracle Database Appliance, with the X3-2 moniker

Oracle revs Database Appliance to X3-2 – and nearly to Exadata

More CPU, memory, storage – and a virtualization option
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The KeyStone II family of ARM Cortex-A15 processors

TI fuels up KeyStone II ARM for HP Moonshot hyperscale servers

Hewlett-Packard is putting more ARM server processor options into its next-generation of "Project Moonshot" hyperscale servers - the latest one coming from Texas Instruments, which has been relatively quiet on the server front but plenty active in the ARM chip market at large.
A PowerEdge rack server spitting out an Express Flash SSD module

Dell pours Fluid Cache into PowerEdge servers

RNA Networks got its start doing memory clustering across multiple server nodes, but since buying the company nearly two years ago Dell has been tweaking the memory-caching engine to speed up disk accesses. Specifically, the Fluid Cache software for PowerEdge servers that Dell is finally delivering converts Express Cache solid state disk modules into a peppy caching front-end for internal disks and JDOD arrays attached to servers.
IBM's System zEC12 mainframe

Pricey mainframes, hyperscale boxes boost Q4 server sales

For the first time in five quarters, the server business saw an uptick in revenues in the final quarter of 2012, mostly thanks to burgeoning sales of dense boxes used by hyperscale web operators and a sharp appetite in IBM's mainframe shops for its new System zEnterprise EC12 boxes.