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Review In late 2012 Intel launched Centerton: the first in its new line of Atom-based server processors. Hoping to cut ARM’s invasion of the data centre off at the pass, these low-power CPUs are targeted at an emerging “Metal as a Service” movement that sees a return of unique workloads to individual processors.…
Enterprise application software powerhouse SAP is beside itself with glee that its HANA in-memory database is driving more business than expected, and server makers like Dell, which are building appliances that meet the very strict – and unmalleable – configurations prescribed to run HANA, are hoping that this turns into a moneymaker for their systems, storage, and switching units.…
There are hypervisors that chop a single server into virtual bits, and other hypervisors that take multiple servers and make them look like one big virtual one. ScaleMP’s vSMP hypervisor is the latter kind, and can be used to create a shared memory x86-based system that runs Linux that would normally require special processors and chipsets. And a much higher price tag.…
Linux server and cluster maker Penguin Computing is a member of the Open Compute Project started by Facebook to create open source data center gear, and now it is an official “solution provider”.…
Japanese IT giant Fujitsu will roll out a bounty of new – and, of course, cloudy – hardware and software offerings next week at its annual customer and partner confab in Tokyo.…