x86-standard servers
Deploying Higher Level Building Blocks for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing Datacenters: How Tightly Coupled Data Access Appliances Simplify Scaling, Decrease Business Complexity, and Cut TCO
White Paper These datacenters leverage standard low-cost X86 servers, Gigabit Ethernet interconnect, and open-source software to build scale-out applications with tiering, data, and application... [05 Aug 2009]
Dell Helps Lead Scale-Out Industry-Standard Server Computing
White Paper Many have turned to server farms, clusters, or grids of x86 industry-standard servers as cost-effective alternatives to larger, proprietary symmetrical multiprocessing systems. As a... [18 Jun 2009]
Characterizing x86 Processors for Industry-Standard Servers: AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon
White Paper The HP ProLiant server portfolio includes systems using the Intel Xeon family of x86 processors and systems using AMD Opteron x86 processors. To help customers understand the implications of these... [03 Mar 2009]
Fujitsu Lays Foundation for Virtual Infrastructures
White Paper Indeed, with its PRIMERGY line of x86 servers, Fujitsu is well positioned to support the use of the industry-standard virtualization platforms such as VMware, Microsoft Windows Server... [29 Mar 2008]
Using Serviceguard for Linux With VMware Virtual Machines
White Paper HP Serviceguard for Linux A.11.18.02 (A.11.18 with the October 2007 patches) is certified for deployment on Linux Virtual machines created on VMware ESX server 3.0.2 1 running 32-bit and 64- bit versions of RedHat 4 U5, RedHat 5, and... [20 Mar 2008]
Large Scale Data Warehouses on Grid: Oracle Database 10g and HP ProLiant Servers
White Paper In this paper one shows how a large-scale, high performing and scalable Grid based data warehouse can be implemented using commodity hardware (industry standard x86- based), Oracle Database 10G and Linux... [01 Mar 2008]
Liquid Computing for a Dynamic Datacenter
White Paper No longer are customers satisfied to default to a one-workload-per-server deployment scenario aboard dozens, hundreds, or potentially thousands of inexpensive x86 servers. The confluence of several... [15 Feb 2008]
Itanium revisited - one year on
Comment It also offers demand-based switching to improve the power consumption of servers by dialling down the chip when not in use. Manchester University spin-off, Transitive, began shipping a variant of its QuickTransit... [13 Dec 2007]
Diane Greene
AS Profile Greene released a desktop virtualisation product in 1999, followed by one for servers in 2001. In doing so, she brought virtualisation out of the mainframe bunker and onto industry-standard... [12 Oct 2007]
TechNet Webcast: Maximize New Server Hardware Potential With Windows Server 2003 Enterprise X64 Edition (Level 200)
White Paper Now that many of the new x86 servers are 64-bit capable, and Windows Server 2003 x64 editions have been on the market for two years, it might be time to take full advantage of x64 technology. The... [28 Aug 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment Virtualisation is not just about servers anymore. They originally used it to partition a server to consolidate numerous smaller servers - and for most people this is probably the first thing that springs... [15 May 2007]
Sun puts Debian founder on the payroll
News But the company afterward resurrected a nearly exterminated version of Solaris for x86 servers, where Linux is most popular, and McNealy predicted in 2005 that Solaris and Windows would be the "two clear... [20 Mar 2007]
Red Hat lines up next Linux shipment
News Virtualisation has been a feature on higher-end servers for years and has arrived on mainstream x86 machines chiefly through software from EMC's VMware subsidiary. The software includes new security... [02 Jan 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Itanium - what's in a name?
Comment Similarly, during its extended development, Itanium was widely expected to become the dominant processor architecture for servers, workstations, and perhaps even desktops, replacing the ubiquitous x86... [06 Nov 2006]
Intel's Otellini announces new chip design
News It will be the basis for three new 65-nanometer dual-core products to be launched in the second half of 2006: Conroe for desktops, Merom for mobile use and Woodcrest for servers. But Otellini said the new generation of... [24 Aug 2005]
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