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Two studies show the data center is thriving instead of dying

Despite the rapid growth and adoption of the cloud, companies still need on-premises systems.

By Andy Patrizio
Jul 13, 2018 3 mins
Data Center Servers
how-to

What’s the future of server virtualization?

Server virtualization can help fight server sprawl, make better use of compute power, curb energy bills, and improve data-center agility and flexibility.

By Neal Weinberg
Jul 11, 2018 6 mins
Data Center Servers Virtualization
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HPE puts enterprise software applications at the edge network

HPE is moving to certify complete enterprise software stacks - Microsoft, SAP, Citrix - for its EdgeLine converged infrastructure devices, allowing enterprises to run the exact same applications in the data center, in the cloud or at the network edge

By Marc Ferranti
Jun 20, 2018 4 mins
Enterprise Applications Networking Servers
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Lenovo announces hybrid liquid-cooling system: Neptune

Lenovo's Neptune includes a mix of cooling technologies: direct-to-node liquid cooling, rear door heat exchangers, and hybrid cooling that mixes air and liquid.

By Andy Patrizio
Jun 20, 2018 3 mins
Data Center Servers
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Summit: How IBM and Oak Ridge laboratory are changing supercomputing

The team designing Oak Ridge National Laboratory's new Summit supercomputer - set to become the fastest on the planet - correctly predicted the rise of data-centric computing, but its builders couldn't forecast how bad weather would disrupt the deliv

By Peter Sayer
Jun 8, 2018 6 mins
Data Center High-Performance Computing Servers
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Suddenly the server market is hot again

Growth and new platforms are driving sales for a once-moribund market.

By Andy Patrizio
Jun 1, 2018 4 mins
AMD Dell Intel
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Cisco taps AMD to power a hyper-dense server for data centers, edge computing

Cisco announces the C-Series C4200 server, a 2RU box comprised of the C4200 chassis and C125 server nodes that boosts processor-core density 128% using AMD EPYC 7000 CPUs.

By Michael Cooney
Jun 1, 2018 3 mins
Cisco Systems Data Center Servers
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AMD’s EPYC server encryption is the latest security system to fall

Researchers find they can recover data from encrypted VMs.

By Andy Patrizio
May 31, 2018 4 mins
AMD Encryption Servers
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Study shows admins are doing a terrible job of patching servers

Three-quarters of examined open-source servers have unpatched exploits.

By Andy Patrizio
May 31, 2018 4 mins
Open Source Security Servers
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Nvidia’s HGX-2 brings flexibility to GPU computing

Nvidia takes the covers off its HGX-2 server platform that unifies HPC and A.I. computing.

By Zeus Kerravala
May 31, 2018 4 mins
Data Center Servers