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Calxeda announces plans to use 64-bit ARM chips in 2014

, Oct 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

Calxeda, which claims to be the first company that implemented ARM processors in servers, has announced its plans to use 64-bit ARM chips in its servers by 2014. The server start-up company detailed its roadmap, which outlines plans for two new generations of hardware built on its own version of 64-bit and 32-bit ARM processors. Read The Full Story

Google opens data centers for a virtual tour

, Oct 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google has thrown open the virtual doors to its data centers, adding behind-the-scenes views of the sprawling, server-filled warehouses in a new "Where the Internet lives" feature. "Our first priority is the privacy and security of your data, and we go to great lengths to protect it, keeping our sites under close guard" the search giant says, but still allowed photographer Connie Zhou to wander the aisles snapping the hardware and the people responsible for it. Read The Full Story

Synology DiskStation DS213+ 2-bay NAS goes big for small businesses

, Aug 24th 2012 Discuss [4]

The next NAS has been revealed by Synology with the DiskStation DS213+, a 2-bay device with full-featured storage for businesses both medium and small. This device is "the first 2013 model" as they say, bringing on a dual-core 1.067 GHz processor to make both reading and writing take on the next generation of file sharing. This device also employs a brand new System Hibernation mode for major reductions in power consumption. Read The Full Story

Cut fiber-optic cables put Wikipedia offline last night

, Aug 7th 2012 Discuss [0]

Wikipedia has been around for a long time been and is one of the most popular places for people to learn about all sorts of subject matters. While the content is suspect at times, Wikipedia is generally a friend of students and anyone else searching out information on a particular topic. Last night Wikipedia was off-line for several hours, and the reason for the outage is now known. Read The Full Story

Quad GeForce GTX 690 server scoffs at your parallel processing needs

, Jul 6th 2012 Discuss [3]

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 690 has already won the hearts and minds of many gamers, with its potent combination of twin Kepler cores, but how about using it for a compact GPU compute rig? That's just what custom PC system maker AVADirect decided to try, opting for not just one GTX 690 but a four card rig squeezed into a standard 2U server. Read The Full Story

Windows Server 2012 set for just four iterations

, Jul 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

This time around, Microsoft is not about to get messy with the massive amount of version of their IT-aimed Windows Server software they've had in the past. Where back in 2008, Window Server had twelve, count them, twelve versions of Server 2008 R2, this version focusing on just four different groups which its editions will be ideal for. These versions include Datacenter, Standard, Essentials, and Foundation, and will be spattered across businesses across the IT landscape before the year is done and over with - will you be jumping aboard? Read The Full Story

Google Compute Engine challenges Amazon with thousands of cores

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [2]

Google has launched Google Compute Engine, an Amazon EC2 rivaling infrastructure-as-a-service that "just works" for scalable virtual machines. App Engine powers over 1m active applications each day, Urs Holze, Google Senior VP of infrastructure, said during the Google IO keynote today, and now developers will be able to harness the power of the search giant's server farm themselves. Read The Full Story

First-gen HP Project Moonshot bypasses ARM for Intel

, Jun 20th 2012 Discuss [2]

If you recall, HP’s Project Moonshot was an attempt ot create an ultra low-power server using ARM’s Calxeda, allowing the company to pack a large number of servers into a single rack unit. Now it looks like HP has decided to move in a different direction, announcing that it will be initially using Intel’s “Centerton” Atom chips instead. HP say they went with Atom due to the 64-bit support, hardware virtualization, low power requirements, and a broader software ecosystem. Read The Full Story

Dell shows off its first ARM-based servers

, May 29th 2012 Discuss [1]

Need a server for your small business, but don't want the huge, expensive and power-hungry x86 models that have been all the rage for decades? Then Dell would like a word. Today they've introduced their first server blades built on the ubiquitous ARM platform, better known for smartphones and tablets than enterprise hardware. The Copper-class C500 3U units can fit a dozen into a chassis, and only draw 15 watts of power each. Read The Full Story

Windows Server 8 becomes Windows Server 2012

, Apr 18th 2012 Discuss [1]

Microsoft is hard at work on its next-generation Windows operating system for consumer PCs and for enterprise users. The company had been calling its enterprise server software Windows Server 8 since we first learned of the server operating system. Microsoft has now given its new server OS an official name. Read The Full Story

Fusion-io releases ioFX SSD card: 420GB for $2,495 [UPDATED]

, Apr 12th 2012 Discuss [5]

Typically if you want a high performance PCIe SSD based solution, you’re going to be paying ridiculous amounts of money. While Fusion-io’s new solution, the ioFX, is still expensive in the grand scheme of things, you’ll only need to sacrifice one body part instead of several. Fusion-io has driven the price down on this SSD flash card without sacrificing much in the way of performance. Read The Full Story

Utah Health Department discovers 750,000 additional stolen records

, Apr 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

Yesterday, I mentioned that the Utah Department of Health had been the victim of a hack resulting in the loss of 181,604 Medicaid billing records. A significant amount of those records also resulted in the loss of patient Social Security numbers. Things have now been found to be much worse than originally thought with Utah officials finding hundreds of thousands of more records that were stolen. Read The Full Story
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