HPE’s Gen10 Servers Will Have Security Drilled into Silicon
Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveiled Gen10 at Discover in Las Vegas last week, the first major upgrade to its ProLiant line of servers since Gen9 was released in 2014. While the release of a new server...
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The Machine of Tomorrow Today: Quantum Computing on the Verge
Jon Asmundsson (Bloomberg) — It’s a sunny Tuesday morning in late March at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center. The corridor from the reception area follows the long, curving glass curtain-wall...
View ArticleOpen19: The Vendor-Friendly Open Source Data Center Project
In case you missed it, LinkedIn last month teamed up with GE, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and a host of other companies serving the data center market to launch a foundation to govern its open source...
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Planning for the New Windows Server Cadence
The next version of Windows Server will let you run Linux containers using Hyper-V isolation (and connect to them with bash scripts), encrypt network segments on software-defined networks and deploy...
View ArticleRittal Joins LinkedIn’s Data Center Standard Foundation
Rittal, one of the world’s largest suppliers of data center racks, has joined the Open19 Foundation, a new non-profit governing a data center standard created by LinkedIn, now a Microsoft subsidiary....
View ArticleOne Click and Voilà, Your Entire Data Center is Encrypted
IBM’s latest z Series mainframe, unveiled today, has a novel security feature the company says users have long wanted but couldn’t get: the ability to easily encrypt all their data, at rest or in...
View ArticleSupply Chain Blunder Means Cisco Servers Could Lose Data
Oops! There’s been a snafu in the Cisco supply chain that’s resulted in UCS servers being shipped that could lose data under a power loss. The problem is with hard drives from Seagate with an incorrect...
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Google Designs Data Center Appliance to Ship Client Data
For a large enterprise, one of the costliest and most time-consuming steps in moving to the cloud is transferring the enormous amount of data stored in its on-premises data centers to its cloud...
View ArticleChipmakers Nvidia, AMD Ride Cryptocurrency Wave — for Now
Ian King (Bloomberg) — During California’s Gold Rush, it was often the sellers of pickaxes and shovels who made the most money. In the frenzy to get rich quick from cryptocurrencies, some investors are...
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Uptime in Space and Under the Sea
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that took supplies to the International Space Station last week had something new on board: the first commercial computers headed for space. Usually, computers for space...
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