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Sun Hardware 'Blows,' According to Oracle Internal Documents

More precisely, Oracle said Sun hardware baaaallllloooooooows. That description comes from discovery documents released by HP related to ligation between the two tech giants. Columnist Rob Enderle says Oracle treated you and him like 'idiots.' Full Story »
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Nvidia Tries to Link Cloud with Graphics Processors

Nvidia's latest graphics processors based on Kepler will accelerate virtualization and reduce reliance on CPU

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Intel Incorporates Security, Management into Core vPro Processors

Intel today described management and security capabilities that will be part of its new Intel Core vPro processor family used in PCs, tablets, laptops and intelligent systems.

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IBM Brings Intel's Ivy Bridge Architecture to M4 Server Line

IBM today announced that it will begin rolling out a family of Intel Ivy Bridge-equipped versions of its M4 server expected to reduce data center power costs and offer entry level virtualization servers.

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Intel Introduces First Server Chips with 3D Transistors

Intel's E3-1200 V2 chips for microservers are based on Ivy Bridge, while E5-4600 chips are based on Sandy Bridge

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Dell, IBM Announce Servers with New Intel Xeon Chips

New servers pack more processing power and memory to speed up database and cloud tasks

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Facebook's Open-Source Data-Center Project Gains Strength

Facebook's year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centers gained momentum on Wednesday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs.

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HGST Announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for Use in Enterprise Data Centers

The SSDs with faster connectivity aim to make data centers faster and improve scalability

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IBM Pushes New Integrated, Lower-cost Linux Servers

IBM announced new "affordable" Linux servers on Wednesday as the company tries to push its new category of preconfigured servers for virtualization and big data to midmarket and enterprise customers.

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Users: Oracle Exadata's Speed Comes At a Price

Exadata delivers the processing speed Oracle has touted, but at high expense and with sizable technical requirements, users say

How To

Are Zombies Sucking the Life Out of Your Data Center?

If your organization operates its own servers and switches, it's likely that a percentage of them are zombies--steadily gobbling up resources but doing no work. Cleaning up a zombie server infestation takes good management and stringent documentation.

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Vyatta Speeds Up Its Software-Based Routing with Vplane

The company is testing a system for greater data-center scalability and phasing out its dedicated appliances

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Microsoft Names Windows Server 2012, Commits to Launch This Year

Microsoft today gave its newest server software a name -- Windows Server 2012 -- and said it would release the operating system this year.

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HP: Oracle Executives Believed Sun Acquisition Was a Mistake

Oracle decided on an aggressive strategy against Hewlett-Packard's Itanium servers after sales of competing Sun's Sparc servers had been in a free fall, and Oracle's executives stated internally that the company's 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems was a mistake, HP said in a filing Monday in its dispute with Oracle over the porting of its software to the Itanium platform.

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Judge Tells Megaupload, Other Groups to Work Out Server Maintenance

Lawyers for Megaupload, the DOJ, the Web hosting company and other groups need to find a compromise, judge says

 
Learn how your answer to this question compares to your peers by taking this quick poll. See how your peers are dealing with the challenge of ensuring a highly capable server infrastructure as technological shifts impact the application server platform.
The Nemertes Research PilotHouse Awards provide insight on the performance of technology vendors, according to feedback from IT decision makers who use their products or services. See which vendors were recognized for their servers built for virtualization.

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The market for blade servers is becoming ever more complex and diverse due to the convergence of related modular form factors, a fast-growing interest in fabric-based infrastructure and the influence of cloud computing on buying behavior. Download the Gartner Magic Quadrant to see how the vendors in blade servers stack up.

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The type of server you install in a data center can have a big impact -- positive or negative -- on the space, power and cooling required. Knowing and choosing the appropriate server type can extend the effective life of your data center, saving millions of dollars, and make room to add new systems.

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Get help evaluating your next purchases and accelerate the business value of IT as your datacenter continues to evolve. Download this Technical Adoption Profile on How Blade Servers Impact Datacenter Management and Agility from Forrester Research.

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HP has developed new online and enhanced remote service technologies designed to capitalize on the embedded HP ProLiant Gen8 management and monitoring capabilities. The most notable of these offerings - HP Insight Online - is the industry's first comprehensive, cloud-based management and support solution with a personalized dashboard for monitoring device and support status.

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Need to do more with less? Watch this video to learn how HP ProLiant Gen8 servers can help your business deploy servers three times faster; initiate problem anaysis five times faster; increase administrator productivity three times; and experience storage performance six times faster.

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Join IDC Analyst Dan Vesset and HP Senior Architect, Jim Hautala, as they discuss the business need for fast, reliable solutions for data management and business reporting - whether you are currently using SQL Server or migrating from a different software technology. Jim Hautala will share ideas on how to help transform your data warehouse with the HP-Microsoft Fast Track reference architectures running Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse. Featuring Intel® Xeon® processors. View the entire webcast or only the chapters you desire
Date: May 31, 2012
Time: 1 PM EST

Organizations are reaping the benefits of simplifying IT, lowering costs and dramatically improving transactional throughput by deploying optimized application-to-disk solutions. These pre-tuned, tested solutions encompass a wide variety of applications and use cases. Hear from industry experts, and IT executives, how these full-stack solutions can achieve three times faster deployment times and up to 75% reductions in acquisition and operational costs.
The complexity, cost and technological bloat of traditional Java EE application servers are often barriers to running a lean and efficient IT organization. Increased need for scalability and rapid application delivery are driving businesses to reconsider the platform they use for deployment. View this webcast to hear real-world examples of companies that have adopted lightweight application servers.
Business users increasingly demand 24x7 availability of their data while IT departments face the challenge of ensuring maximum availability while operating with limited budgets.
Learn how to reduce IT management overhead, ease revision control, guarantee data security, scale systems more quickly and reduce server and software costs.
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