Servers
Big Blue misses Q1 targets big-time thanks to systems shortfall
$1.4bn in charges for "workload rebalancing" – aka layoffs – coming in Q2
Data centers can't save Intel's first quarter
But they might save 2013 if Atom and Xeon chips take off
Oracle to resell Fujitsu 'Athena' Sparc64-X servers ... worldwide
The more Sparcs, the merrier, apparently
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Intel hints at server processor plans for the rest of this year
New chippery all around, from tiny Atom to big bad Xeon E7
VMware sells off Shavlik patch management tools to LANDesk
Forget hardware nannying, we're all about software-defined everything
'Til heftier engines come aboard, HP Moonshot only about clouds
Analysis And those engines will come – as will FPGAs, DSPs, GPUs ...
Reg readers reveal MIGHTY DOMESTIC DATA CENTRES
Servers’n’sofas challenge reveals racks and stacks in the oddest places
Dell, Canonical tag team on Ubuntu Server tune-up for PowerEdgies
Expanding official support from cloudy boxes to general-purpose workhorses
Opinion
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.
Oracle fudges touts Sparc SuperCluster prowess
Comment Oracle has said that sales of its Sparc T series of servers are growing in the "double digits" in its most recent quarter, and that it expects this to continue through the remainder of its fiscal year. And while Oracle has not been precise about what is selling and what isn't selling, what is clear is that Oracle wants to peddle more of its Sparc SuperCluster "engineered systems" to customers.
News
Taiwanese giant Quanta sold one out of every seven servers last year
Exclusive 'Hyperscale serving came to us, and we own it'
Fujitsu makes Windows Server 2012 see double
Double-stuffed and clustered Primergy racker aimed at SMBs
Cheeky Boston fires up x86-to-ARM porting cloud for server apps
Chuckles about 'ARM as a service' and AaaS all around
Oracle revs Database Appliance to X3-2 – and nearly to Exadata
More CPU, memory, storage – and a virtualization option
TI fuels up KeyStone II ARM for HP Moonshot hyperscale servers
ARM/DSP hybrid presents data centers with interesting possibilities
The server racket recovers from the Great Recession
Hyperscale data center vigor makes up for enterprise skittishness
IBM skips BladeCenter chassis with Power7+ rollout
End of the line for Power blades – PureFlex or bust
Unisys re-ups $650m deal to look after US taxman's big iron
IRS slurps over $2 TREEELLION a year of taxpayers' cash
VCE collective takes integrated systems battle down to the midrange
Cisco-EMC-sometimes-VMware converged boxes take on the tier ones
Chinese search engine giant Baidu forges ARM servers
Marvell notches another design win after Dell and Codethink boxes
HP cranks up bandwidth on BladeSystem sheaths, adds pretty platinum stripe
Three-rank memory and 40GE downlinks for blades to match
Tilera etches '*ss-kicking' 72-core system-on-chip for network gear
It is not just difficult to design and manufacture a chip for workloads that will be run many years in the future, it is damned near impossible. This is because so many shifting alternative technologies will materialize between the time you make your plan and when it is executed. Any chipmaker has to be both flexible and patient - an equally difficult feat for both upstart processor vendors and incumbents. Tilera, still very much in startup mode nine years after its founding, is getting traction with its many-cored Tile-Gx system-on-chips and is rolling out a new model with 72 cores on a single die.
IBM forges Power7+ PureApplication appliance
IBM hosted a briefing earlier this week to talk about some new members of its PureSystems offerings, but only one of the lineup they introduced was truly new – and it took The Reg a couple of days of digging to uncover pricing information.
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