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Server Makers Jockey For “Haswell” Xeon Pole Position
With VMware's VMworld extravaganza winding down, the talk will now shift from virtual servers to physical ones. Everyone expects for Intel to launch its next-generation "Haswell" Xeon E5 processors ...Full Article
Convey-Dell FPGA Appliance Accelerates Hyperscale Image Resizing
Convey Computer, a maker of hybrid supercomputers based on a mix of X86 processors and field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips, is teaming up with Dell's Data Center Solutions ...Full Article
Dell Taps Nutanix For Converged Server-SAN Appliances
If Dell had not spent so much money taking itself private last year, it might be spending billions of dollars acquiring converged system upstart Nutanix. But instead – and ...Full Article
The Rise Of Server Upstarts
The battle between the tier one incumbent server makers and Cisco Systems and the custom server makers continued in the first quarter of the year, and the upstarts are ...Full Article
Dell Advances Open Networks With Big Switch Deal
Dell is joining forces with software-defined networking specialist Big Switch Networks to advance its open networking initiative that aims to shake up the traditional networking switch model. Dell has ...Full Article
Dell Preps Fluid Cache SAN Accelerator For June Launch
The Fluid Cache for SAN acceleration software that Dell has created to boost the performance of its Compellent storage area network arrays is closer to coming to market. Dell ...Full Article
Terascala Rides Herd With Lustre Into The Enterprise
It is still early days for the commercialization of the Lustre parallel file system. But the brisk business that Terascala, one of several companies that have put some polish ...Full Article
Dell Z9500 Switch Pushes 40GbE Density Up, Costs Down
The increasing adoption of 10 Gb/sec Ethernet between servers and out to storage arrays is driving the need for more bandwidth higher up in the aggregation layer of the ...Full Article
Hyperscale Datacenters To Dominate Server Shipments
The cloud, in its many forms, is changing the nature of servers and storage and is therefore transforming the overall market for systems and storage. Nothing makes this more ...Full Article
Dell Forges Custom G5 Racks For Hyperscale Shops
As funny as it sounds, the standard computing rack is a problem in the datacenter. The physical layout of datacenters is pegged to the dimensions, weight, power draw, and ...Full Article
