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Server hardware

• November 14, 2012 14 Nov'12

  Cisco profits jump 18% thanks to datacentre strategy

  Cisco reports an 18% rise in profits, hitting $2.1bn for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2013, on the back of its integrated datacentre systems

• October 17, 2012 17 Oct'12

  Intel sales and profits fall in third quarter

  Computer chip maker Intel has reported falls in both sales and profits in the third quarter due to the "tough economic environment”

• September 12, 2012 12 Sep'12

  Tesco signs £65m datacentre deal to drive online expansion

  Tesco expects to cut several millions each year from its IT bill following a 15-year £65m datacentre deal with Sentrum

• August 22, 2012 22 Aug'12

  Dell expects tough next quarter

  Dell expects third-quarter revenue to be down between 2% and 5% on second-quarter levels due to the “uncertain economic environment”

• June 26, 2012 26 Jun'12

  Cambridge University turns to computer games to unlock secrets of the universe

  Cambridge University is turning to technology developed for computer gaming to help it solve some of the fundamental problems of science

• June 20, 2012 20 Jun'12

  Q&A: Why do we need exascale computers ?

  Europe, the US, Japan and China are racing to develop the next generation of supercomputer – exascale machines - capable of a million trillion calculations a second.

• June 18, 2012 18 Jun'12

  Asian scientists call for government action on supercomputers

  Scientists in India, China, Japan, Korea and India have called on their governments to collaborate on supercomputer technology

• June 12, 2012 12 Jun'12

  Cisco UCS blade servers integrate Fusion-io PCIe flash cards

  Cisco UCS signs an OEM deal with Fusion-io to incorporate PCIe flash cards directly into Cisco servers

• June 06, 2012 06 Jun'12

  HP eyes EMC’s storage market

  HP has released a StoreOnce data deduplication back-up system, which it claims can ingest data at 100TB per hour – three times faster than EMC’s recently launched Data Domain 990

• May 23, 2012 23 May'12

  Dell's quarterly profits take a dive

  Dell saw its profits dive 33% in its first financial quarter of 2013 as consumer and large enterprise sales fell 12% and 3% respectively

• May 23, 2012 23 May'12

  Vblocks revenues on track to hit $3bn in 2013

  The tie-up between Cisco, EMC and VMware is ramping up revenues from its datacentre-in-a-box product

• May 22, 2012 22 May'12

  Tucci: FusionIO ‘darn right foolish’ for Flash attitude

  EMC’s CEO hits back at FusionIO as the war of words continues between the two companies

• April 19, 2012 19 Apr'12

  Supercomputers will reach 'exascale' speeds within decade

  Supercomputers will be powerful enough to simulate the human brain within seven years, says founder of Top500 list.

• April 03, 2012 03 Apr'12

  STFC ploughs £30m into high performance computing centre with IBM

  The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has signed a £30m deal with IBM to develop high performance computing (HPC)

• March 20, 2012 20 Mar'12

  Birkbeck College consolidates servers to cut PUE rating to 1.3

  Birkbeck College has consolidated four equipment rooms into one £700,000 datacentre with a PUE rating of just 1.3

• February 29, 2012 29 Feb'12

  Datacentres and mobile devices drive 7% server shipment rise in 2011

  Server shipments rose 7% in 2011 as businesses built datacentres and smartphones and tablets were increasingly used to access web content

• February 13, 2012 13 Feb'12

  IT professionals prioritise Windows 7 upgrade, but cloud takes a back seat

  Windows 7 upgrade will drive virtualisation but businesses are slow to take up cloud computing

• February 13, 2012 13 Feb'12

  Case study: Cogenta migrates to Claranet VDC

  Cogenta is among the first customers for Claranet’s Virtual Data Centre (VDC) service, which launched last month.

• January 17, 2012 17 Jan'12

  Oracle integrates data management with Sun servers

  Oracle is tackling the challenge of data management by providing pre-integrated systems based on Sun hardware.

• January 12, 2012 12 Jan'12

  Oracle study shows data demands drive new data centre installations

  Research from Oracle across 10 regions has found that an organisation's growth in data is becoming a boardroom issue.

• December 16, 2011 16 Dec'11

  Investment bank JP Morgan goes live with FPGA Maxeler supercomputer

  JP Morgan has gone live with a supercomputer for fixed income trading operations. The investment bank is using a Maxeler dataflow supercomputer for analysing and profiling intra-day trading risk.

• December 12, 2011 12 Dec'11

  Cloud leaves many firewalls wanting – but could automation prove the silver bullet?

  Most companies rely on firewalls, but the IT landscape is changing and so must approaches to security. Is there a silver bullet?

• November 24, 2011 24 Nov'11

  How Experian is retro-fitting its datacentre to boost efficiency

  Experian's Fairham House datacentre in Nottingham uses blade servers, virtualisation and cold aisle containment to improve energy efficiency.

• November 16, 2011 16 Nov'11

  Thai floods could impact revenues and prices, says Dell

  Computer maker Dell says flooding in Thailand is causing a worldwide shortage of PC hard drives that will last into the first quarter of 2012 and could impact the company’s revenues.

• November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  HP puts ARM at the heart of energy-efficient datacentres

  Hewlett-Packard has introduced a line of servers using the Calxeda EnergyCore ARM Cortex low-energy processors which it claims will enable datacentres to host 2,800 servers in a single rack.

• September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11

  The impact of the Olympics power drain on London-based datacentres

  Power shortages and costs are becoming an increasing concern for companies with datacentres in London as the Olympics approaches.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  ElasticStack delivers cloud with SAN-resilient storage on commodity hardware

  Cloud platform provider ElasticStack has refined its software to deliver a cloud platform with resilient storage using low-cost commodity hardware...

• June 06, 2011 06 Jun'11

  Service providers battle to reduce carbon footprint as datacentres expand

  IT service providers are united in their attempt to reduce carbon footprints on paper, with corporate targets to support them, but despite putting a lot of energy into the cause, their power consumption is rising, according to a major benchmarking ...

• April 15, 2011 15 Apr'11

  Computer Weekly marks the end of an era as a new one begins

  The first issue of Computer Weekly magazine in 1966 marked the start of an era in the UK IT industry - the first ever weekly technology publication. This is the story of how it all began.

• April 11, 2011 11 Apr'11

  Manageability issues impede adoption of virtualisation

  Virtual infrastructure management challenges are hindering the adoption of virtualisation within businesses, according to research.

• January 21, 2011 21 Jan'11

  Rackspace launches system administrator app

  Rackspace has launched an app that allows a CIO or system administrator to dial up or take down servers and storage moment by moment.

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry

  David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year.

• June 01, 2007 01 Jun'07

  Sclavos's VeriSign departure leaves many questions unanswered

  Some industry observers say disagreements fueled his resignation, but others say Sclavos's abrupt departure revolved around his role in VeriSign's options accounting practices.

• March 22, 2007 22 Mar'07

  Midrange storage array specifications

  Product snapshots highlighting key specifications for a cross section of midrange storage array products.

• February 26, 2007 26 Feb'07

  HP acquires clustered file system software maker PolyServe

  HP announced its intent to acquire clustered file system maker PolyServe.

• February 14, 2007 14 Feb'07

  Cancer clinic juggles two-tiered storage environments

  Karmanos Cancer Institute is using two separate tiered storage systems from EMC and Sun, and says it has yet to find a single storage vendor that can meet all its requirements.

• February 05, 2007 05 Feb'07

  Does it cost extra for unified storage?

  For a lot of NAS-based systems -- even Windows Storage Server (WSS) with an iSCSI target unified storage capability is probably...

• October 23, 2006 23 Oct'06

  QLogic dives into directors

  QLogic will announce its new SanBox 9000 director this week, but it's missing true director-class features and is encroaching on a market already dominated by Brocade and Cisco.

• January 17, 2005 17 Jan'05

  'Benevolent' NT4 patches a surprise to some

  Microsoft's first security bulletins of the new year included fixes for the now-unsupported Windows NT Server 4.0. On a related note, administrators are cautioned to apply one of January's patches in a specific order to avoid problems.

• October 26, 2004 26 Oct'04

  IBM sharpens blades

  IBM has announced new management tools and upgraded models of its HS20 and JS20 blade servers.

• September 27, 2004 27 Sep'04

  Five steps to using the Kerberos protocol

  This excerpt from "Windows Server 2003 security infrastructures" explains the basic Kerberos protocol as it is defined in RFC 1510.

• August 24, 2001 24 Aug'01

  HP gambles on Itanium

  A top Hewlett-Packard executive has signalled his company's commitment to Intel Itanium processor in perhaps the strongest terms...