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Andy Patrizio is a freelance technology writer based in Orange County, California. He's written for a variety of publications, ranging from Tom's Guide to Wired to Dr. Dobbs Journal, and has been on staff at IT publications like InternetNews, PC Week and InformationWeek.

Everything Lenovo sells, from devices to servers, is now a part of the consumption-based, pay-as-you-go model.

The single-socket server used to be the lowest end of servers, but potent new chips are raising its value.

IBM's Linear Tape-Open 9 (LTO-9) Ultrium magnetic tape drive promises greater density, performance and resiliency.

Lenovo ThinkSystem SE350 Edge servers will ship with VMware edge software installed.

The last Unix vendor left promises 2.5x greater per core performance vs x86-based servers.

Amazon brings its file storage service to NetApp’s ONTAP storage system.

Western Digital hopes to get hybrid storage right by combining HDD with NAND and a CPU.

The innovations Intel is putting in its Adler Lake desktop processors could also be valuable in chips developed for servers.

If Western Digital does merge with Kioxia, WD would be a storage giant far ahead of the competition.

IBM's Telum processor will have on-chip acceleration for artificial intelligence inferencing.

Deal to acquire software-defined networking company Masergy will give Comcast Business a boost in the enterprise SD-WAN and SASE markets.

Intel's Sapphire Rapids next-gen Xeon chip and Ponte Vecchio GPU promise performance boosts, new architectures.

x86 is just one of many architectures under the new strategy.

Schneider Electric launches a new channel program for its American Power Conversion line of uninterruptible power supplies.

Researchers say a voltage-glitching attack can access encrypted virtual-machine data on AMD Secure Processors, but it's not easy.

Marvell is spending $1.1B and will get Innovium's high-speed chip for cloud providers, complementing its on-prem network offerings.

Starting next year networks will end their 3G support. Are you sure you have replaced all your 3G devices?

As Atos acknowledges challenges to its on-premises data-center consulting, other players are investing in other areas, notably cloud.

ITRenew will provide the slightly used data-center hardware, and Vapor IO will provide the colocation, networking and interconnection services.

Intel ends delivery of its 64-bit Itanium processors two years after saying it would do so.

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