Servers
Dell gooses HANA appliances, loads up SAP Business Suite
Looks ahead to those Ivy Bridge-EX machines later this year
Integration gets back on track with the vertical stack
We don't need no vendor lock-in
Japan begins planning exascale super
Seeking funds for design project
ScaleMP: Use RAM plus vSMP, not flash, to boost server performance
Partners with Big Blue, chases SGI UV2 shared memory systems
Penguin Computing to make Open Compute servers
And apparently a lot more money, thanks to Zuck & Co.
Fujitsu Integrated Systems stack up servers, storage, and switches
Anything Larry Ellison can do, we can do differently
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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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.
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
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 ...
HP's 'historic' Project Moonshot servers aim at hyperscale future
First Atom nodes, then ARM and others to 'change the server market'
ARM, TSMC tape out 64-bit Cortex-A57 chip on 16 nanometers
We have big ol' fat gates, too, Chipzilla
HP fuels second-gen Moonshot servers for April 8 launch
Rocketing into the clouds and elite data centers with hyperscale iron
Dell, Canonical tag team on Ubuntu Server tune-up for PowerEdgies
Expanding official support from cloudy boxes to general-purpose workhorses
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
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.
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.
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.
