Data Center

Nvidia: First $199 ‘Kai’ tablets will be announced this year

Kai is a reference design for a low-cost 7-inch tablet to compete with the Kindle Fire

Microsoft teams with Quanta for ‘private cloud in a box’

Quanta Computer and Microsoft will offer 'pre-validated' configurations of hardware and software for deploying private clouds

AMD chases Intel ultrabooks with Trinity laptop-tablet hyrid

With Trinity, AMD hopes to undercut Intel's touchscreen ultrabooks on price

Cisco competitor extends data center fabric line

Xsigo enhances virtual I/O director, management apps to support Romley servers, more hypervisors

HP’s Livermore was ‘furious and appalled’ at Oracle dropping Itanium

The former HP enterprise chief read on the Web that Oracle would stop developing for Itanium

TiVo countersues Cisco over DVR patents

Response to last week's Cisco suit seeking to void TiVo patents

Researchers predict advent of ‘resource-as-a-service’ clouds

These clouds will allow customers to rent individual compute resources by the second, not the hour

The Cisco security directive

HP touts unified cloud services

Hewlett-Packard kicks off its HP Discover user conference with a bevy of new cloud software packages and services

Mobile wallet systems could hurt brick-and-mortar banks, survey suggests

Many users expressed willingness to drop their banks altogether