Servers
Oracle cranks up the flash with Exadata X3 systems
OpenWorld 2012 Ellison: Rotating disk drives are so 20th century
Oracle fudges touts Sparc SuperCluster prowess
Comment Stupidometer reading: 'Bad competitive analysis 101'
'Double Stuf' Power7+ sockets: Yummy, but so is overclocking
Analysis IBM needs to swing both ways in server land
HP pitches four-socketeer Xeon E5 borg boxes
Consolidation is not futile
Microsoft extends Windows Server 2008 support
Eighteen month stay of execution for ye olde pre-cloud OS
Huawei previews Cisco-killin' E9000 modular system
Pulling the telecom-to-datacenter California alley-oop
Canonical aligns Ubuntu Server with quick-change OpenStack
Updates Landscape control freak for Linux machines
Opinion
Oracle fudges touts Sparc SuperCluster prowess
Comment Oracle has said that sales of its Sparc T series of servers are growing in the "double digits" in its most recent quarter, and that it expects this to continue through the remainder of its fiscal year. And while Oracle has not been precise about what is selling and what isn't selling, what is clear is that Oracle wants to peddle more of its Sparc SuperCluster "engineered systems" to customers.
Thanks ever so much Java, for that biz-wide rootkit infection
Sysadmin blog Right on cue, Java has responded to my hatred in kind. Shortly after I awoke to discover my previous article denouncing the language had been published, a client called to inform me his computer had contracted some malware. Java has, if you'll forgive the anthropomorphization of a bytecode virtualization engine, decided to exact its revenge.
Why Java would still stink even if it weren't security swiss cheese
Sysadmin blog Java is horrible and I hate it.
News
Intel to etch 22nm Xeons and Atoms in 2013
IDF 2012 A Sandy Bridge-EX too far, Poulson Itanium looming
Acer racks up Xeon E5s, picks fight with US server bad boys
From little seeds giant oaks shipments grow
AMD previews Piledriver, Ivy Bridge SeaMicro microservers
Stretches Freedom interconnect fabric out to storage
Intel hints at weaving network fabric into Xeons, Atoms
IDF 2012 Time for controllers and processors to share the bed
NEC speeds up Gemini FT chipset, adds in Xeon E5s
Fault tolerance, cheaper ESXi trumps VMware HA
Windows Server 2012: Smarter, stronger, frustrating
Review Perfect upgrade for punters with a passion for the obscure
Fujitsu to embiggen iron bigtime with Sparc64-X
Hot Chips So is this the Sparc M4 on Oracle's roadmaps?
Thanks ever so much Java, for that biz-wide rootkit infection
Sysadmin blog Cup of coffee actually a carboy of toxic Kool-Aid
Ninefold offers Windows Server 2012 head start
Australian company offers cloudy servers with cut-over to official code
IBM to double-stuff sockets with power-packed Power7+
Hot Chips Big boost in clock speed, smart accelerators
Applied Micro's X-Gene server chip ARMed to the teeth
Hot Chips An opportunity to define the future of server processing comes along once every decade or so, and Applied Micro Circuit, a company known for its networking chips and PowerPC-based embedded controllers, wants to move up into the big leagues to take on Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, and the handful of remaining etchers of RISC processors for the data center.
Why Java would still stink even if it weren't security swiss cheese
Sysadmin blog Java is horrible and I hate it.
Look out, world! SUSE Linux's OpenStack control-freak is loose
CloudOpen 2012 Commercial Linux distributor SUSE Linux is moving up into the clouds with a commercially supported release of its OpenStack cloud control-freak.
Spotlight
Blocks and Files Storage line-up needs more than 3PAR and StoreOnce arrays
Oracle OpenWorld Big cheese tells a tale of real-time analysis
Oi, who's uploading all the source code?
Sysadmin blog I'm not ashamed to admit I was drooling over those racks
Interview Chris Mellor chats with Exagrid CEO Bill Andrews
Insiders claim former top dog Petersen wanted more control
Spinning disks and squabbling sisters
Comment Code crammed into nimble x86 processor caches
Podcast How to keep data doubloons out of Davy Jones' bitlocker
Sysadmin blog Deployment tool jumps onto the cloud train