Friday, May 17, 2013
NASA lab gets B.C. company’s quantum computer D-Wave Systems is installing one of its advanced high performance computers to help research into machine learning, speech recognition and the search for exoplanets
Friday, April 19, 2013
IBM unlikely to sell all x86 business: Analyst Reports are IBM and Lenovo are in talks over its x86 server business. But an analyst says IBM would want to hold onto its high-end line
Thursday, April 18, 2013
TSO software helps data centres cut power cost TSO Logic's software toolset helps administrators control server power based on application workload
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
HP to launch Project Moonshot Project Moonshot servers will use 89 per cent less energy, cover 94 per cent less space and cost 63 per cent less than a traditional x86 server environment
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Patch released for VMware vulnerability The vulnerability affects both the VMware View connection server and the View security server 
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Dell developing mobile management appliance Company executive describes KACE K3000 Mobile Management Appliance as "plug and play"
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Helping supercomputers stay super They`ve got power, size and lustre. But with size comes complexity, and that makes them vulnerable. A recent conference discussed ways to prevent system failure
Friday, November 16, 2012
HP releases new server optimized for big data The server is built to support data-intensive computing, the company says
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
IBM adds to PureSystems line PureData integrated systems are optimized for transactional, operational or big data analytics customers, with claims they can be deployed in as little as 24 hours
Friday, October 05, 2012
The data centre as object d'art A Quebec university building is among the structures included in a new book on beautiful data centres from around the world. We've got a link to a slide show
Friday, October 05, 2012
IBM releases new Power Systems CPU New Power 7+ chip will have a higher clock rate and more than double the amount of memory cache, the company says
Thursday, August 30, 2012
ARM 64-bit server chip unveiled But an analyst quoted in the Computerworld article doubts ARM has a future in the data centres, which he says will remain "an all x86 world"
Monday, August 27, 2012
New Energy star for servers coming soon IT WORLD CANADA CURATED The original Energy Star designation for servers has become outdated due to technological improvements
Friday, August 03, 2012
EMC thinks Dell is a smelly, bloated beached whale IT WORLD CANADA CURATED Bloomberg calls EMC a "data centre survivor"
Monday, July 30, 2012
Facebook to test first Open Compute racks Open Rack solves a number of ongoing problems of traditional data center server racks
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Secure, virtualized printing setting new standard Two public institutions in Saskatchewan are realizing the benefits of centralizing print management
Monday, June 18, 2012
Killer apps for software defined networks What you need to know about OpenFlow and SDNs
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
10 essential performance tips for MySQL From workload profiling to the three rules of indexing, these expert insights are sure to make your MySQL servers scream
Monday, April 23, 2012
13 quad-core Intel Ivy Bridge chips expected The first wave of Ivy Bridge chips reportedly include 13 quad-core processors and are designed for desktops
Monday, April 09, 2012
Eurocom packs eight-core Intel Xeon E5 chip into laptop Eurocom calls its new 12.1-pound Panther 4.0 laptop a mobile server
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
IBM mainframe automation on a tight budget Ottawa-based Exspans Systems Inc. provides ultra-low cost IBM mainframe automation software to those in need
Monday, March 12, 2012
Micron releases first 2.5-in PCIe SSD The P32h 2.5-in SSD is a hot-swappable server drive
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
AMD enters cloud server business Purchase of SeaMicro, which makes low-power servers, seen as a way to expand the market for AMD's processors to other manufacturers
Monday, February 27, 2012
Oracle's Exalytics set for showdown with SAP's HANA Both systems incorporate in-memory processing
Monday, February 27, 2012
Dell PowerEdge 12G servers take aim at HP Proliant The company puts the focus on embedded management in its core corporate hardware along with a data warehouse appliance to deal with big data and additions to its EqualLogic storage arrays