News

• Virtual reality and non-conductive liquids: data centers get innovative

  Google I/O is getting most of the attention this week, but a conference at the other end of Silicon Valley showed there's plenty of innovation happening in the word of data centers, too.

• Cisco cites data-center, wireless for quarterly revenue increase

  Data-center and wireless sales led growth at Cisco Systems in its fiscal third quarter, as it saw customers spending more in the U.S. and developing countries but reported continuing weakness in Southern Europe.

• In Pictures: 10 of the biggest pieces of heavyweight hardware

  The outsized, the hefty and the completely ridiculous

• IBM-Lenovo deal likely to focus on low-end, commodity servers, analyst says

  Any deal by IBM to sell parts of its server business to Lenovo is likely to focus on low-end commodity x86 hardware, not higher-end x86 systems such as IBM's PureSystems and iDataPlex servers, an industry analyst said Thursday.

• IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo, reports say

  IBM is in "advanced discussions" with Lenovo over a possible deal for it to purchase IBM's x86 server business, according to two news reports.

• Dell: Little momentum in ARM servers until 64-bit processors

  The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell's top engineers said they are unlikely to take off until 64-bit versions hit the market.

• Oracle-HP court battle over Itanium delayed indefinitely

  Oracle and Hewlett-Packard's ongoing legal battle over software for Itanium has run into another delay, and this time there's no telling how long it will last.

• Intel aims for easy server upgrades

  To make server upgrades easier, Intel introduced a rack reference architecture that speeds up data throughput while reducing energy and maintenance costs in data centers.

• HP to customise Moonshot offerings, offer ARM and Xeon chips

  Hewlett-Packard in the future will offer customized Moonshot servers at different prices and also offer configurations with ARM and Intel Xeon processors.

• HP's first Moonshot server with Atom processors priced at $61,875

  Hewlett-Packard's new densely packed low-power Moonshot server has finally come out of the company's labs and is available to customers in the U.S. and Canada starting at US$61,875.

• Intel Atom chips poised for power, performance boost with Avoton

  After years of incremental improvements, Atom chips are poised for a big jump in performance and power efficiency with a new generation of low-processors that have shipped to server makers for testing.

• LenovoEMC fortifies small-business storage with enterprise smarts

  Small and medium-sized enterprises with no full-time IT staff are beginning to get some of the same features that large data centers have for efficiency and control.

• Oracle brings data center fabric to Sparc systems

  Oracle has extended its data center fabric to its Sparc-based Unix platforms, promising to let enterprises tie more servers and applications into the high-speed infrastructure.

• HP to announce Project Moonshot hyperscale servers next week

  Hewlett-Packard next week will unveil a class of hyperscale servers as part of Project Moonshot, the company's attempt to build densely packed low-power servers that can scale performance quickly.

• With new Sparc systems, Oracle begins shift to single chip architecture

  Oracle has announced a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors and in the process has begun an expected shift toward converging its two families of Unix servers onto a single chip architecture.