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.
For the first time in Windows Server history, Microsoft went straight from testing to general availability without RTMing its Windows Server 2019 release.
The Haas F1 team is leveraging a Cray CS500 cluster supercomputer powered by AMD EPYC 7000 processors to carry out computational fluid dynamics simulations.
Red Hat is adding Ansible DevOps capabilities to its Red Hat Satellite system management program.
Microsoft's latest version of its Windows Admin Center, designed for managing the coming Windows Server 2019 release, is already available for download.
A year on from its release, AMD's EPYC processor is shaking up the server market. We examine three different implementations of these powerful and cost-effective CPUs.
Facebook has to run lots of live tests to figure out which configurations are best for its HTTP servers, and it sped up the search for optimal settings by employing a machine learning approach called Bayesian optimization to narrow the list of plausible solutions.
Data without an associated backup is only as reliable as the system upon which it is stored—and every system has a finite life span or may be susceptible to malware or hacking efforts. This form provides...
The system is powered by the latest Intel Xeons as well as Nvidia Tesla GPUs.
Even in this cloud-centric world, there remain good reasons to own and run a physical server out of your office (or even home). Which server? That depends entirely on what you'll be using it for.
If your organization could deploy its applications in the cloud the way Netflix does, could it reap the same kinds of benefits that Netflix does? Perhaps, but its business model and maybe even its philosophy might have to be completely reformed -- not unlike jumping the chasm from movies-by-mail to streaming content.
Eclypsium researchers disclose second vulnerability affecting Supermicro servers in the past three months
The company also intends to make the server designs available to the public via open source in Q4 of this year.
You can test performance after using our patches, but don't publish the results, say Intel's new license terms.
Dropbox becomes the latest company to embrace AMD EPYC and see a benefit to single-socket platform adoption.
Microsoft briefly rolled out out its 'My Phone' app for Windows 10 more broadly. There are also new Insider test builds of its 'Redstone 5' Windows client and Server and Patch Tuesday fixes for many Win 10 variants.
After being called out over patchy patches, Microsoft sets out how it updates Windows 10 machines.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Researchers find a technique to contain the memcached amplification attacks seen over the past week.
What do you call a server with no server functionality? Junk. Apple is done with the server business.
PowerEdge XR2 is pitched as the perfect building block for rugged OEM solutions.
The YubiHSM 2 is the world's smallest and cost-effective hardware security module, allowing for a root of trust for all servers, IoT gateways, and computing devices.
Cloud datacenters rely on acres of disk drives to store data, and startup Tachyum bets on an all-flash cloud.
The ThinkSystem brand will include servers, storage and networking. ThinkAgile is focused on software-defined data centers and integrated and converged systems.
A modular HPC server with a Xeon Phi twist
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.
This is a well-built 1U server which, if correctly specified with the latest Xeon E3-1200 processor and other options, will have no problem living up to its positioning as an entry-level virtualisation platform.
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