IBM and HP continue their duel to be the favored enterprise server provider, but there are many other players - including Dell, Oracle, and Cisco. Meanwhile, public clouds and virtualization should keep the server market interesting.
768k Day expected within the month, reminiscent of 512k Day when AT&T, BT, Comcast, Sprint, and Verizon all went down.
Google rolled out MTA-STS and TLS Reporting support for Gmail servers today, April 10, 2019.
Spray-and-pray hacking campaign hits Mailgun's WordPress site and redirects users to malicious sites.
Serverless architecture is a style of programming for cloud platforms that's changing the way applications are built, deployed, and - ultimately - consumed. So where do servers enter the picture?
Leaks have taken place in the first three months of the year, via either ElasticSearch or MongoDB databases.
Companies using Apache on private, non-shared servers are also at risk, but to a lesser degree.
Employees, data, and resources are three of the biggest assets in any organization. All employees should be familiar with the processes for recovering information if it becomes lost, inaccessible, or compromised....
Hyperconverged infrastructure is driving growth for the broader category, according to IDC.
New attack vector opens backdoor inside enterprise disk storage arrays and people's NAS devices.
Rack-scale integration (RSI) could bring cloud economics to enterprise data centers. But storage is a sticking point. A new software stack makes remote flash almost equivalent to local flash. Here's what you need to know.
Microsoft is giving customers a new way to run their virtualized workloads on-premises while connecting to Azure.
Storage vendors promote extreme "hero" performance numbers for what their products - when brand new - can achieve. But what about YOUR workload? Here's a FREE workload profiler that will analyze your Windows, Linux, or macOS workload, so you know exactly how much performance you need.
The effort will leverage Cray's Shasta supercomputing platform as well as Intel technology.
Most photos, songs, and videos uploaded to the site between 2003 and 2015 are lost for good, site said.
There are many things people can do to advance the cause of humankind and push the boundaries of knowledge. But at some point, they’d better earn you a buck or two. Can a quantum computer really be a cash cow?
Need access to high-performance cloud-based GPU instances? Scaleway is offering access to Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs at a highly competitive price.
We summarise the charts that tell the tech story of the past month.
The next version of Windows Server is at an early stage of development, but some of the new functionality for orchestrating virtualised compute, storage and networking resources on commodity hardware is available for early adopters to test. Here's how it's shaping up.
The Spanish telco's largest facility is based outside the Spanish capital. ZDNet was invited along to see inside.
Tower, rack and blade servers are familiar enough, but what do microservers look like? We examine examples from HP, SeaMicro and Dell.
Each year, the V8 Supercars series converges on Mount Panorama for the endurance race known as the Bathurst 1000. ZDNet took a look at the tech behind the data used by the Symantec Nissan team to strategise the race.
IBM's 300mm chip fab in upstate New York turns out high-performance chips around the clock. ZDNet was invited to take a look inside, and learn about what the future holds for chip making.
How do you make your datacentre run better, and save money? At IBM's research labs and facilities in upstate New York, three ideas are uppermost on people's minds: energy efficiency, monitoring, and utilisation.
Server Manager, the admin console for Microsoft's latest server OS, has a modern-style GUI, and is a one-stop shop for managing devices, tools and services.
Microsoft has done a lot to simplify the server experience in Windows Server 2012 Essentials, which mixes both business and consumer features.
As Windows Server 2012 nears the finishing line, here's an update on the look and feel of the Release Candidate.
Business-technology exhibition CeBIT 2012 kicked off today, bringing together a who's who of technology players. Many exhibitors appeared to be playing it safe, with booth babes absent from view. Instead, a few took BYO to heart, and brought their own trucks, caravans and bikes.
Another website error page? Broken link, or server problem? Here are 20 websites that have made their '404' error pages stand out from the crowd.
Windows Server 8 can be installed with or without a GUI, uses the Metro look-and-feel, and runs the show from the new Server Manager. Find out more in our screenshot gallery.
Razer, probably best known for its gaming mice, is entering the laptop market with the $2,799 Blade premium, gaming laptop.
The 2012 London Olympics are approaching fast, and computer technology is absolutely critical to their success — unlike the last time the capital hosted the Games. Here is a tour of the Olympic Park and some of the back-end systems
ZDNet's Scott Fulton tells TechRepublic's Karen Roby all about the ins and outs of serverless computing. Read more: https://zd.net/2Dh8c9q
Google rolled out MTA-STS and TLS Reporting support for Gmail servers on April 10, 2019.
Intel to exit joint venture with Micron at a time of its choosing in the next six to twelve months.
LG Chem will invest 1.2 trillion won -- around $1.07 billion -- to expand its battery factories in Nanjing to meet rising demand for electric vehicles and home appliances in China.
Dell has improved its webcam in the XPS 13, which it claims was the one complaint it received about the previous model, with the device priced at $900 and powered by a quad-core 8th gen Intel processor.
Singapore's ST Telemedia Global Data Centres has unveiled plans to build a 75,000 square metre data centre in central Bangkok through a joint venture partnership with Thai industrial platform provider, TICON.
Its seventh such facility in Singapore, the data centre will be STT Telemedia Global Data Centres' largest in the country, spanning 27,000 square metres and touting a load capacity of more than 30 megawatt.
The latest batch of tariffs from President Trump's trade war on China is likely going to affect the IT sector.
AMD did something that was long overdue -- it upended a stagnant and complacent server market, and all in a year.
Liquid cooling in the data center was usually reserved for supercomputing. Lenovo is betting that cooling techniques will go mainstream.
The data center's heat exchangers are being linked up to the city's heating network.
Cisco patches a severe flaw in switch deployment software that can be attacked with crafted messages sent to a port that's open by default.
Unpatched plugins are opening the door to cryptojacking.
Attackers can use a protocol bug in Windows RDP to steal session authentication and take over a network domain.
The complex malware infects PCs via files downloaded from compromised routers.
A compact and affordable microserver that squeezes 24 server nodes into 3U of rack space, the Quattro 1396-T delivers huge gains in terms of space and energy efficiency but lacks scalability at the individual server level.
With two high-performance memory modules onboard, this implementation of LSI's popular MegaRAID HBA uses flash to cache frequently accessed data, boosting storage performance without the upheaval or cost of switching from magnetic disk to SSD.
Take a blade server, add shared storage, PCI expansion and networking and you have the Dell PowerEdge VRTX. It's a surprisingly scalable yet affordable all-in-one system aimed at small businesses, but attracting interest well beyond its intended market.
It's not the most powerful or scalable 2U server in Dell's PowerEdge range, but the R520 is still a quick, capable and affordable dual-socket platform that can be configured to handle a variety of both datacentre and distributed office workloads.
Microsoft is looking ahead to a future of private and public clouds, where information is everything, and users can access it however they want. Is Microsoft's latest server OS up to the job?
The tower equivalent of the rack-mounted R720, Dell's PowerEdge T620 sports the same processor, RAM and management options plus even more flexible storage. It's a powerful and versatile platform that can cope with everything from standard file and print duties through distributed branch office applications to private cloud deployment.
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials was disappointing, but there's a lot to like in its successor, which provides a small file-and-print server with integrated systems management and backup tools that's ideal for a small business or a home office.
Dell has done a lot more than simply upgrade the PowerEdge T320 to the new Xeon E5-2400 processor. Memory and storage also get a huge boost, and there's optional iDRAC 7 management and an embedded hypervisor option, making this a real SME power platform.
A big step up from the previous S6 model, the seventh iteration of the RX300 majors on performance and capacity, and can be used to run a wide range of datacentre applications.
With its Xeon E5-2600 processors, extra memory, extra storage and enhanced management options, the PowerEdge R720 is a real powerhouse that hits the sweet spot when it comes to the 2P2U server market.
Networking
Some internet outages predicted for the coming month as '768k Day' approaches
Security
Over 13K iSCSI storage clusters left exposed online without a password
Security
Gmail becomes first major email provider to support MTA-STS and TLS Reporting
Security
Chinese companies have leaked over 590 million resumes via open databases
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