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AMD announces Opteron 6000 series servers are shipping from IBM
Smooth-Stone ARM server chips get $48m funding to take on Intel
While ARM processors are generally to be found in ultraportable devices like smartphones, a significant round of investment in power-frugal ARM-based server chip producer Smooth-Stone could signal an impending shift. The company - which promises to bring "ultra‐low power mobile phone technology to the datacenter" - has secured $48m in new funding, which it will use to finalize its chip technology that uses many low-power processors rather than, as with Intel-based servers, a few high-power chips.
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Active Media Products Debuts DOM flash module for servers and embedded systems
Active Media Products has announced a new storage solution for servers and embedded systems that don’t need much storage space and need to save as much space as possible. The new Disk-On-Modules are flash modules offering 8GB, 16GB, or 32GB of storage space.
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Pogoplug Biz targets business sharing with sober new chassi
We were big fans of the second-gen Pogoplug when we reviewed it back in April, and now the company has outed a business-centric version, the Pogoplug Biz. Ditching the consumer model's hot pink chassis for a more sober, black finish - after all, we wouldn't want employees thinking it was a party in the office - the Pogoplug Biz adds in file tracking stats, custom email addresses and file-sharing pages, multiple user accounts and remote backup.
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Synology DiskStation DS411+ and RackStation RS810+ promise superlative speed
Synology has announced its latest network-attached storage offerings, the standalone DiskStation DS411+ and the rack-mounted RackStation RS810+ and RS810RP+. Targeted at high-end home users or SMBs, the new products prioritize speed of data access: Synology reckon owners will see average 112MB/sec read rates and around 106MB/sec write rates in RAID 5 configurations.
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GuruPlug Server Plus doubts: overheating CPU, shonky software
Back in February we gazed with wide-eyed amazement at the GuruPlug Server Plus, a compact SheevaPlug-style embedded computer that managed to squeeze dual gigabit ethernet, eSATA and more into a wall-wart sized box. Unfortunately, all that squeezing may have left the end result a little less than perfect; owner Willy Tarreau got in touch to let us know that his GuruPlug turned out to be not only running buggy software but, more worryingly, poorly and perhaps even dangerously constructed.
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SeaMicro SM10000 server uses 512 Atom CPUs
It may look like a regular server, but the SeaMicro SM10000 hides a surprising choice of CPU behind its mesh door. Rather than the Intel Xeon chip or two you might expect to find, the SM10000 actually gets a full 512 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 chips squeezed into a 10U rack-mount unit. Capable, SeaMicro reckon, of replacing forty 1U regular servers, the SM10000 also uses one quarter of the power.
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Excito Bubba Two: home server the size of a paperback
All the way back in early 2007 we mentioned Excito's Bubba super-compact home server, a palm-sized FTP, media and backup store, and now the company has updated things with the Excito Bubba Two. As before, it's pretty darn small - 4.5 x 1.8 x 7 inches - and, since the enclosure is fanless, quiet too; choose an SSD model and it's silent. For basic users it can be as straightforward as plug-and-play, whereas for those who prefer tinkering the full Debian Linux underpinnings are available to muck about with.
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SlashGear HP Data Vault X510 Giveaway!
If there's one thing we love more than reviewing top tech kit here at SlashGear it's giving it away to our readers, and HP have come through with some brilliant hardware that's up for grabs. They've offered an HP Data Vault X510 Windows Home Server - equally at home managing your multimedia library as it is acting as a centric backup store for all the computers on your network - worth around $700 for one lucky SlashGear reader, together with a number of other tempting prizes.
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GuruPlug Server Plus boosts Sheevaplug, adds eSATA & more
Remember Marvell's third-gen Sheevaplug? The newest server-in-a-wall-wart made its debut at CES 2010 last month, adding WiFi and Bluetooth along with a faster, more capable chipset. As we saw before, the core Sheevaplug design often prompts some interesting third-party versions, and one such mini-server is Globalscale's GuruPlug Server Plus. It takes the basics of the Sheevaplug and throws in an eSATA port, a second gigabit ethernet port and a microSD card slot.
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PlugPBX turns Marvell SheevaPlug into Asterisk VoIP system
Skype did a great job of pushing VoIP into the mainstream, but if you've considered graduating up from their closed platform to a more open, flexible system such as the open-source Asterisk project then you may have found it all a bit intimidating. How about a straightforward VoIP system served up by a low-power, super-simple Marvell SheevaPlug instead? The PlugPBX project promises just that: a custom Asterisk/FreePBX VoIP build designed to drop straight onto a SheevaPlug.
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VIA M’SERV S2100 home mini server arrives
One of the reasons we have a soft-spot for VIA is that they eat their own dogfood: not only do they produce processors, mainboards and other chipsets, they also put out a range of products (often to OEMs rather than end-users) that actually use them. Latest is the VIA M'SERV S2100, a boxy little server intended for home and small business users that's powered by the VIA Nano CPU.
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