Servers
REVEALED: The gizmo leaker Snowden used to smuggle out NSA files
You probably have one in your pocket
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Array slinger X-IO jumps on Windows Storage Server filly, digs in heels
Giddy up, there's a new NAS box to flog
Facebook turns on frigid Swedish ice-maidens in new data centre
And by maidens, we mean slim, 'vanity-free', low-maintenance models
IBM to port KVM hypervisor to Power-Linux iron
Does spit and polish on Power Systems lineup
HP adds 'Haswell' Xeon E3s to entry ProLiant servers
Gussies up MicroServer for SMBs, adds baby switches
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
Opinion
Appliances are the new data centre onesie
It's all coming together
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
Live Reg TV: We tour Server 2012's Hyper-V 3 and high availability
Hands-on Virty machine monitoring and much, much more this month
Calxeda lines up ODM partners for EnergyCore ARM server chips
Computex Gigabyte, Foxconn, and Aaeon forge web and storage servers
AMD chalks up Opteron X design win on HP Moonshot hyperscale system
HP is getting to Kyoto ahead of AMD's SeaMicro biz
Oracle and Dell forge worldwide server alliance
Red dawn at Dell as Oracle cedes x86 ground in exchange for bigger software footprint
Dell rejigs Active System stacks, wraps up HPC cluster for life sciences
Rack 'em, stack 'em, sell 'em, ship 'em
Server racket 'challenging' in Q1, says IDC
Windows takes a dip, RISC/Unix cannonballs, Linux defies gravity
AMD takes on Atom S server chips with 'Kyoto' Opteron Xs
Corralling multimedia and other flops-hungry workloads onto microservers
SoftLayer sticks with Super Micro servers, ponders Open Compute
It's all about the supply chain - THEN the price
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
HP preps Project Kraken for monster HANA in-memory jobs
Sixteen Ivy Bridge-EX sockets and 12TB in a single image
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.
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.
