SeaMicro, you’re on your own. (And it could be a good thing.) According to Intel’s vice president and general manager of its Data Center Group, Kirk Skaugen, the chipmaker won’t be making a push into the server space with its low-power Atom processor. The market for servers comprised of several Atom processors, like the ones [...]
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As expected, ARM officially announced its new Cortex-A chip design and in addition to specs that portend a new generation of powerhouse smartphones, it looks like ARM is finally laying the groundwork for some serious competition in the server processor space. ARM’s latest design is an upgrade in every regard, from clockspeed (up to 2.5 [...]
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Irvine, Calif.-based Solarflare Communications announced the availability of network adapters that, because of the company’s low-power SFC9000 chipset, offers high-speed networking for servers while helping to trim energy costs. And not just for any servers either, but systems that drive virtualized and/or cloud environments thanks to its hardware assisted virtual I/O acceleration for VMware, Microsoft [...]
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If you want more proof that ARM has data center ambitions, look no further than this article in eWeek. During the Hot Chips conference at Stanford this week, ARM’s architecture program manager, Dave Brash, said that the Cortex A, code-named Eagle, will feature virtualization support. Already, according to Brash, companies including VMware are working hypervisors [...]
If the rumors are to be believed, a major web company is getting ready to deploy servers based on ARM’s low-power chips. According to Charlie Demerjian’s post at Semi Accurate, Facebook will be the first to make that jump. (With Smooth-Stone, perhaps?) Though mainly a designer of chips for smartphones and mobiles — essentially a [...]
How do you make a grab for a bigger slice of the virtualization market in the face of VMware’s expansive portfolio? By going in whole hog. The software company is undergoing a product realignment, corralling all of its virtualization technologies under the Oracle Virtualization banner in a product development and branding exercise that, if all [...]
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Smooth-Stone, an Austin, Texas-based startup that’s looking to improve data center efficiency with computer servers that feature non-traditional chip architectures, announced today that it has raised $48 million to develop ARM-based servers. The funds come from a mix of VCs and technology companies, most notably ARM, which has a vested interest in seeing its low-power [...]
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Uh-oh, so much for the cloud’s server-killing ways. A new forecast from IDC illustrates the double-edged sword that is cloud computing, and it’s certain to cheer up HP, Dell and other big server vendors. While the cloud has the potential to vastly reduce the number of physical — and often underutilized — computer servers and [...]
Apple and the Environment Probably more than you ever wanted to know about Apple and its impact on the environment. Gartner: Turn server heat up to 75 – Computerworld In addition to Gartner’s report, a recent survey by CDW illustrates…
AMD and Intel are locked in a battle for datacenter and these days that means pumping out processors that make easy work of workloads in an enery efficient manner. Anandtech takes a look at how the chipmakers fare in…
