Pros Vastly improved management, Top value, Xeon Scalable CPUs, Highly expandable, Embedded NVMe ports Cons Fewer storage options than HPE’s DL380 Gen10 Verdict The ThinkSystem SR650 is a versatile data centre workhorse at a great price made all the more appealing by Lenovo’s smart new remote management controller
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Choosing the Right Server for Your Business
There are multiple kinds of servers to choose from. Therefore it is important to ask yourself a few questions before even beginning to consider purchasing a product. You want to know what exactly you will be using your server for among other things. In this mini-guide we will be teaching you things that you should …
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IBM All Set to Launch OpenPower Cloud Service
Tech giant IBM has set plans in motion to provide OpenPower-based servers to its SoftLayer cloud customers. To date, SoftLayer has largely offered x86-based server deployments to its users. The new solution is expected to use IBM’s POWER8 architecture alongside bare-metal OpenPower systems. Full specifications are expected later this year – including whether SoftLayer will …
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Server Power Problems? Microsoft Has a Solution
Data centres are largely dependent on the national grid for their power. But, as the uncertainty of the energy crisis continues to loom, there’s a question mark over the ability of servers to stay online for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, blip-free. To date, a solution has been found in the fuel …
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Cavium unveils 48-Core ARM Server Chip
Cavium announced that the ThunderX chips are now available, including an industry first — a 48-core ARMv8 processor. The four ThunderX product families include ThunderX_CP for Cloud compute workloads, ThunderX_ST for Cloud storage, Cavium ThunderXThunderX_NT for networking applications and ThunderX_SC for secure computing. Rishi Chugh, Director, Product Marketing in the Data Center Processor Group at …
More capacity, less margin
IBM is selling more and more mainframe capacity but at lower cost/margin. Sales of Power Systems and competing HP and Oracle/Sun platforms have fallen as customers move traditional Unix workloads and applications to x86-based servers and alternatives, including cloud computing services. So while Enterprise 2013 featured a wide range of System z and Power Systems …
Levono gets green light for IBM x86 purchase
It seems that Levono are extremely happy with the continuing acquisition of IBM’s hardware. After the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment approved the $2.3 billion purchase, Levono announced their new offices in Danbury, Connecticut. Lenovo, which has locations in China and North Carolina, leased more than 10,000 square feet worth of office space in the …
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IBM announce New Power Systems
Big Data is a big deal for IBM, and Wednesday Big Blue announced new Power Systems servers to handle the load. The new products are built on an open server platform, based on the Power8 processor. The company’s new machines are the culmination of a $2.4 billion investment, more than 3 years of development and the exploitation …
No downtime for VM migration, faster reboot are new capabilities Unix may have been shouldered aside by Windows as the main operating system in data centres, but a number of manufacturers remain loyal to the versions of it still in their portfolio. Hewlet Packard are one such manufacturer. The outline their new products on the …
Do you need to find more out about the Cloud?
Is one of your new year’s resolutions to find out more about how the Cloud can benefit your business? Maybe you’ve seen lots of article about it and are a bit dubious about it being the latest over-hyped and gone-tomorrow technology? Either way, you owe it to yourself to find out a little bit more …
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