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Reg readers reveal MIGHTY DOMESTIC DATA CENTRES

Servers’n’sofas challenge reveals racks and stacks in the oddest places
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The HP Itanium 9500 server family

EMEA server market struggles to find its footing

Decline in Q4 not as bad as in Q3, at least
Ubuntu RHS teaser

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

Expanding official support from cloudy boxes to general-purpose workhorses

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.
Oracle Sparc T4-4 server
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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

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
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Amdahl 470V/6 mainframe computer on the 3rd floor of the Computing Center Building on the University of Michigan, credit Jeff Ogden, original photographer unknown

Unisys re-ups $650m deal to look after US taxman's big iron

IRS slurps over $2 TREEELLION a year of taxpayers' cash
A VCE vBlock

VCE collective takes integrated systems battle down to the midrange

Cisco-EMC-sometimes-VMware converged boxes take on the tier ones
Baidu has deployed an ARM server for cheap and dense storage

Chinese search engine giant Baidu forges ARM servers

Marvell notches another design win after Dell and Codethink boxes
The BladeSystem c7000 Platinum edition chassis populated with blades

HP cranks up bandwidth on BladeSystem sheaths, adds pretty platinum stripe

Three-rank memory and 40GE downlinks for blades to match
Tilera GX chip wafer

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 Flex Chassis, front view

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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LIVE NOW: Never mind Windows 8, speak your brains on Server 2012

Live Chat Windows Server 2012 was part of a Microsoft launch wave that included Windows 8 and Office 2013.