Canonical is preparing to introduce a new service option for Ubuntu Linux users, known as Ubuntu Advantage. – Canonical is preparing to introduce a new service option for Ubuntu Linux
users, known as Ubuntu Advantage.
Slated for official release on June 7, Ubuntu Advantage is a comprehensive
service that combines systems management tools, technical support, access to
online resources, training and legal…
At the International Supercomputing 2010 show, SGI announced a new computing platform that takes advantage of general-purpose GPUs from Nvidia and AMDs ATI business to scale up to a petaflop of computing power in a single server cabinet. – SGI has created a computing platform that takes advantage of
graphics processing capabilities to get a petaflop of compute power
into a single cabinet.
SGI announced the hybrid computing platform June 1 at the International Supercomputing 2010 show in Hamburg, Germany.
Like a growing number of s…
A security researcher from Trustwave says administrators often underestimate the security risks facing JBoss servers. Armed with a new tool, he will speak at the upcoming AthCon conference about how these servers can be compromised and what your enterprise can do about it. – A researcher from Trustwave will highlight JBoss server security
at the inaugural AthCon security
conference this week.
In a presentation, Trustwave security consultant Christian Papathanasiou
will unveil a new tool for compromising JBoss servers and discuss best
practices for protecting JB…
ASP maintenance is a technical term for maintaining Active Server Pages. If you are not familiar with ASP it is Microsofts first server side script engine. It was created to include material added to existing web entities. It has been supersede by ASP net but, it is still a viable option and much easier to maintain than ASP net.
Microsoft and Novell report an increase in the number of companies seeking their high-performance computing interoperability offering, which lets businesses deploy workload management across both Windows HPC Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Those companies hail from a number of economic sectors, including finance and health care, suggesting that business spending on high-level IT infrastructure projects in general could be on the rise after a long period of stagnation. Microsoft has previously announced its intention of make HPC a more mainstream proposition. – Microsoft and Novell have reported an increase in the number of companies
seeking their high-performance computing interoperability offering, which
deploys workload management across both Windows HPC
Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and allows IT managers to balance
server workloads by r…
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and HAMBURG, Germany, May 31, 2010 – During the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), Intel Corporation announced plans to deliver new products based on the Intel® Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture that will create platforms running at trillions of calculations per second, while also retaining the benefits of standard Intel processors.
HP overtook IBM in worldwide server revenues in the first quarter on the strength of its ProLiant sales and IBM customers waiting for refreshes of that vendors Power and mainframe offerings, according to Gartner and IDC. Overall, the global server market grew in both revenues and shipments, the analyst firms said. – Hewlett-Packard grabbed the worldwide market share lead from IBM
in the first quarter as sales globally continue to rebound, according to market
research firms IDC and Gartner.
Both firms said HP saw server revenues jump while IBM
figures slid in the quarter.
HP and IBM were both helped
by inc…
Microsoft launches the release candidate of Windows Server AppFabric and a beta release of BizTalk Server 2010, promising simplified development, deployment and management. – Microsoft has launched the release candidate of Windows Server AppFabric and
a beta release of BizTalk Server 2010.
Microsoft made the announcements during its Application Infrastructure
Virtual Launch Event on May 20. Burley Kawasaki,
director for developer platform product management at Micros…
IBM is putting Nvidia’s Tesla 20-series GPUs in the newest version of its iDataPlex HPC server, a success for Nvidia’s strategy of increasing the use of GPUs in mainstream computing. Smaller vendors like SGI, Appro and SuperMicro already use GPUs in their servers, but IBM now becomes the largest of the OEMs to do so. – Nvidia’s efforts to push graphics chip technology into mainstream computing received
a significant boost May 18 when IBM
announced that the newest version of its iDataPlex server will run on both
traditional computing chips and GPUs from Nvidia.
The announcement marks the first time a top-tier s…
While it hasn’t yet achieved prominence on par with its desktop-oriented sibling, Ubuntu 10.04 Server is gaining on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, due in part to private cloud advances. For a look at Ubuntu 10.04 LTS in action, check out the slide gallery below, and make sure to read eWEEK Labs’
full review here. – …
Synology’s DS210+ network-attached storage server offers cost-conscious businesses energy-saving features and compatibility to a variety of operating systems and cloud-based storage vendors. – <p>Synology America May 17 launched the DiskStation DS210+, a secure NAS server
aimed at small to medium-size business users designed to share and back up
data. The company claims the DS210+ is ideal for users who require a reliable
data storage solution and high-performance file sharing.
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Dell says combining its server and storage solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 will help customers run large scale data centers and data warehouses more effectively.
– Dell is pitching a combination of its server and storage offerings and the newly released Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 as an answer to data center and data warehouse management challenges.
Dell is touting support for SQL Server 2008 R2 on its complete
line of 64-bit PowerEdge servers as well as …
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Canonical’s Ubuntu Server hasn’t yet caught up to the progress that’s been made in Linux desktops, but it offers a serviceable alternative to server offerings from other Linux vendors and from Microsoft.
– Canonical and the Ubuntu Project have done great things to
help bring Linux to the mainstream desktop. But what about the server edition?
If Ubuntu can bring the same level of polish to its server offerings, it should
be a formidable competitor to Microsoft and other Linux vendors. Looking at Ubu…
Based on IDC’s first cloud computing survey focused exclusively on servers, the research company predicts that server revenue in the private cloud category will grow from $7.3 billion in 2009 to $11.8 billion in 2014, or about 62 percent.
– IT researcher IDC reported May 10 that the combination of an aging server installed base, IT managers’ increasing need to rein in virtual machines, and a general upturn in the buying environment is boosting sales of commodity-type servers used in public and private cloud-computing systems.
Based …
SGI is bringing the newest processors from Intel and AMD to its Altix ICE HPC blade servers. The Altix ICE 8400 also features an improved InfiniBand I/O architecture. Three Altix ICE 8400 servers are run on Intel Xeon 5600 chips. The other two are powered by AMDs Opteron 6100 processors.
– SGI is updating its Altix ICE blade
servers with the latest x86 processors from both Intel and Advanced Micro
Devices and a bulked-up InfiniBand network designed to increase scalability.
SGIs Altix ICE 8400,
announced May 5 and aimed at the HPC (high-performance
computing) space, can scale as h…
Canonical announces the upcoming release of the Desktop and Server editions of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, the Long-Term Support version of the popular Linux distribution, as well as strong ISV and open-source ecosystem support for the products.
– Canonical announced April 27 the upcoming release of Desktop and Server
editions of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, the Long Term
Support version of the popular Linux distribution, as well as quot;strong ISV
and open-source ecosystem support quot; for the products.
Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu pr…
Dell officials are boasting that Dell got to the market first with servers powered by Intel’s Xeon 7500 chips, code-named Nehalem EX, while IBM says more than 200 customers, mostly from HP and Oracle, migrated workloads to IBM systems in the first quarter. HP just refreshed its high-end Integrity server line with Intel’s Itanium 9300 processors, code-named Tukwila.
– Awaiting the increase in corporate IT spending that is expected come as 2010
moves along, top-tier systems vendors are aggressively pushing their platforms
as alternatives to those of their competitors.
Dell and IBM on April 27
both boasted of the positions their high-end offerings hold in the r…
HP is expanding its converged data center infrastructure strategy to include its mission-critical, Itanium-based Integrity servers. The rollout includes the first update of HPs high-end Superdome in 10 years.
– Hewlett-Packard is bringing its high-end Integrity server platform
into its converged infrastructure strategy.
HP officials on April 26 rolled out a refreshed line of
Integrity systems powered by Intels newest Itanium
9300 “Tukwila” processors and built on a bladed architecture that covers
ever…
Microsoft released the latest version of its SQL Server database management system to manufacturing today. The database will be available to customers in early May.
– Microsoft released the final version of SQL Server 2008 Release 2 (R2) to manufacturing today.
According to Microsoft, customers can expect availability
in the next few weeks through Microsoft distribution channels. The
update features a number of enhancements centered on scalability,
analytic…
