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Madness or genius?
UK hosting company Bytemark has seen the future of servers and it's... er... a processor designed for tiny laptops and desktops.…
Implicit Networks demands royalties
Seattle firm Implicit Networks is suing Adobe, IBM, Oracle and SAP for patent infringements.…
Heck of a job, Hector. We'll keep it up!
Comment Normally, a succession plan is a good thing. You want the new CEO to slide into the old CEO's chair with an ease that says, "Our asses were molded by the same country club rib eyes and crème brûlées. Everything is under control."…
China's Godson-3 whimpers in too
Hot Chips The grandest chip unveiling in many, many years will take place this August on the campus of Stanford University.…
Beget Methuselah SSDs
Samsung and Sun Microsystems say they've found a veritable fountain of youth for data center solid-state drives.…
De-bloating Bill's code
Fastscale is bringing its unique brand of software shrinking to Windows Server.…
Your POD or mine?
Hewlett-Packard has finally found its way into the data center trailer park.…
Seeks application workload Nirvana
Citrix Systems is developing a set of Open Virtual Machine (OVM) format tools that will let virtualized applications jump across different hypervisors.…
Not as bad as you might have thought
Sun Microsystems has issued an early take on its fourth quarter financial results, showing sales figures that have declined from the same period last year.…
Sun rises on Dell in SaaS future
Exclusive Salesforce.com is chucking out the last of it Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire servers this week, ending one of Sun's most bragged about relationships.…
Are we there yet?
The phrase “cloud computing” has been subjected to unnatural forms of marketing abuse. The buzzword pros have taken two nouns that we all recognize, combined them and formed a nebulous, hideous beast that means many things to many people.…
SPARC64 VII plugs in
Now is about the time Sun Microsystems was meant to start telling the world of the wonders inherent in the Rock processor. No such luck. Instead, Sun and Fujitsu are celebrating the arrival of Version VII of the SPARC64 processor.…
Will fuel 300,000-core, 10 petaflop giant
Exclusive IBM looks set to join the seriously multi-core set with the Power7 chip. Internal documents seen by The Register show Power7 with eight cores per processor and also some very, very large IBM boxes based on the chip.…
Hurd 'The Butcher' gets out his knife
Comment I love this Mark Hurd guy. He's turning cost-cutting into an art form.…
Pants ERP system leaves it without pants
Exclusive Problems with a massive global enterprise resource planning (ERP) rollout have helped send Levi Strauss' second-quarter results through the floor.…
Full metal server
The US Department of Defense is sounding a strategic retreat from its current hardware and software licenses and ducking into the cloud for cover.…
Could Fujitsu unite?
Comment Here, with the stock market melting, we find Sun Microsystems in most uncomfortable territory. It's got a stock market value of $7.7bn, which means that the one-time lord of the servers is a mid-cap company.…
The cup that phones home
Plat'Home is a curious Japanese company that seems intent on cracking the US market with its weird brand of tiny Linux servers. This week, it has offered the land of the free and the home of the brave the KANSHI Blocks Pro 6.0.1 device, which is a coffee mug-sized monitoring server.…
An August release?
Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 appears ready to go after months of delay, as the company is taking steps to begin selling the database.…
Studio to AMD: Drop dead
For computer animation studios, upgrading long-in-the-tooth server farms is a part of a natural cycle to keep things looking sharp. But they're a bit like butterflies flitting amongst hardware specs when it comes down to finding what they want to power "the next big thing."…
Whacks Greene when VMware needed her most
Comment By firing VMware chief Diane Greene, EMC's top dog Joe Tucci has sent a message to investors that his personal likes and dislikes come before their broader interests. That's not exactly what you want to see from an executive who has already done so very little for investors over the past five years.…
MS veteran replaces co-founder
VMWare co-founder Diane Greene left the company today as it announced it would undershoot its full year revenue targets.…
Mad Scyldz
Clustered storage system vendor, Panasas, is teaming up the Linux cluster house, Penguin Computing, to — well, obviously combine some of the former's goodies with the latter's.…
'Your complaint stands'
IBM may have corked the wails of antitrust outrage coming from the diminutive mainframe vendor Platform Solutions (PSI) by purchasing the upstart, but the European regulator genie has already slipped out the bottle.…
The ninth mode of art runs on HP clusters
Exclusive For more than six months, a list ranking the top supercomputers in China has been floating around, but no one has managed to solve its riddle.…
Renewed vows
Parallels is giving some delayed attention to Hewlett-Packard's Integrity servers today.…
If you can't beat them, buy them
Platform Solutions Inc. (PSI), the upstart mainframe house that's been leading international anti-trust charges against IBM, has today been bought by, er, IBM.…
Full height boxes ready too
HP and IBM have some super fancy technology for virtualizing the I/O of their blade systems, and they sell it for thousands of dollars. Dell now has something similar - an SD card that it sells for $499 a pop.…
When will you get a turn?
Never one to miss out on a marketing opportunity, IBM has already started tweaking the new iDataPlex system to reach more customers before the box has even started shipping.…
Like a mainframe but closer to angels
Structure 08 Amazon CTO Werner Vogels believes that cloud computing will be commonplace within two years.…
Flattering release
Love Red Hat Enterprise Linux and want the latest edition, but can't stand the company and refuse to give it a single red cent? You're in luck.…
Open source BigTable and improve fluffiness, please
Structure 08 Yes, Google has opened its cloud to every developer down on earth. But for some, it's not quite as open as it should be.…
Great BBQ and strip clubs for execs too
North Carolina will do just about anything to keep technology companies happy, including offering IBM up to $750,000 to bring just 10 jobs to the state.…
80 Plus gives them a gold sticker
Dell is fussing over itself again for being such a brilliant shade of eco-friendly green. No surprise. We dare say Michael Dell himself weeps a single tear of amber when you drop a paper coffee cup into the trash.…
No license to print money
Structure 08 Cloud computing has its very own catch-22. If we can tap into the cloud, grabbing our compute resources on the fly, we can free ourselves from the old school software licensing models. But old school software licensing models may prevent us from tapping into the cloud.…
New CloudStatus site monitors the ...cloud ...status...
Open source systems management specialist Hyperic is sticking its inquisitive probe into Amazon.com's cloud.…
Proud to be dense
In a weird sort of way, you can think of this as Rackable Systems 2.0.…
256 thread per socket rocket
Exclusive Sun Microsystems looks poised to lead the "mainstream" multi-core race for at least a couple more years. By late 2009, the server maker should deliver a third major revision of its Niagara processor which will have 16 cores and an astonishing 16 threads per core, The Register has learned.…
GPL love-in
Hewlett-Packard plans to make its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System available to the open source community.…
Out-acquiring Google
Comment We're in the midst of some very strange times. An online book seller owns the leading utility computing service. An advertising company manufactures its own servers and switches. And spots in rural America best known for being, well, rural are turning into technology heavyweights because they have access to cheap power and generous taxpayers.…
Netizens scramble to replenish frozen pizza stockpiles
The UK’s net population narrowly escaped starvation today as Sainsbury’s finally got its e-commerce site up and running again.…
Deploy Windows and then obliterate it
Summit One of the main community-driven projects that prompted Red Hat to open source its Satellite code today was the Linux boot server, Cobbler.…
$270 extra buys X amounts of brain
A couple of years ago, Dell launched a new line of so-called Energy Smart servers. They were billed as modified versions of the company's standard PowerEdge systems, which cost a bit more up front but helped customers save more money over the long haul by reducing power consumption. But, we wondered, how smart were the Energy Smart systems here in 2008. Or more precisely, is Dell living up to its green computing claims?…
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Summit Red Hat is opening the code of its Network Satellite Server, the locally hosted service behind the Red Hat Network (RHN) management platform.…
Hopes to outdo Bull
Sun Microsystems has suffered from a hate-hate relationship with the supercomputing world over the past few years. The shift to Linux clusters caught the company totally off guard, and resulted in Sun vanishing from the Top500 supercomputers list. That's hardly the "right" position for a company that prides itself on selling servers and building big systems to occupy.…
Lifecycles updated, possibly more complicated than fluid dynamics
Summit Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions 4 and 5 are going to stick around in full support mode a full year longer.…
VMware in the rear
Parallels has stolen a march on VMware with the release of virtualization software for Intel-based servers running Apple's OS X Leopard operating system.…
Don't be so aggressive, guys
Summit Red Hat is extremely late to the virtualization hypervisor party, but the company is confident that its reputation as a prominent Linux licenser will push the technology to even greater heights. Open source style.…
Going faster miles an hour
So IBM beat IBM in the new supercomputer TOP500 hit parade published today. No surprise there, with Roadrunner, the new no.1, built by IBM for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, earning plenty of airtime last week for being the first petaflop computer.…
Cited for floating point abuse
Cheaper and faster - check. ClearSpeed has hit the two major keys to winning in the silicon game with the release of its latest floating point accelerators.…