Servers
Citrix XenServer 6.1 fires live VMs from cannon across servers
Wanna avoid downtime? Well, just put this helmet on...
HP doubles up SAP hard-hearted HANA appliances
Scaling out and adding failover clustering
IBM rolls up SAP HANA appliance on SUSE Linux, x iron
Wiener schnitzel not included
Oracle nudges Sparc T5s back out to 2013
OpenWorld 2012 Solaris 11 gets an update, Sparc T4s carry on
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Power7+ chips debut in fat IBM midrange systems
Near the top at first, trickling down to smaller boxes next year
Fujitsu, Oracle pair up on future 'Athena' Sparc64 chips
OpenWorld 2012 But Larry may not resell servers that use them
Microsoft extends Windows Server 2008 support
Eighteen month stay of execution for ye olde pre-cloud OS
Stratus runs Marathon after high-availability server rival gobble
Beats the competition to the finishing line
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.
News
'Your app will work on Windows 8 - but please rewrite it anyway'
Microsoft bigwig adds: 'We’re not afraid to make hard calls'
IBM to debut Power7+ servers on October 3
Staggered rollout, maybe running top to bottom this time
Inphi: Don't skimp on memory for those virty servers
LRDIMM versus RDIMM benchmark smackdown
IBM: Last chance to load up on Power 6+
Getting ready to lead the old girl out back with gun and spade
Dell bends shiny server linings for denser clouds
Zeus chassis, lightning not included
Huawei previews Cisco-killin' E9000 modular system
Pulling the telecom-to-datacenter California alley-oop
NEC, Egenera tag team on cloudy infrastructure freakage
PAN Manager paired up with SigmaBlades, Nblocks
UK's non-x86 server sales dive off cliff, vendors take a hit
Growth in the UK server market evaporated in Q2 as x86 platform sales dipped and the already dwindling base of non-x86 machines collapsed.
Windows Server 2012: Smarter, stronger, frustrating
Review Microsoft has released Windows Server 2012, based on the same core code as Windows 8. Yes, it has the same Start screen in place of the Start menu, but that is of little importance, particularly since Microsoft is pushing the idea of installing the Server Core edition – which has no Graphical User Interface. If you do install a GUI, Server 2012 even boots into the desktop by default.
Fujitsu to embiggen iron bigtime with Sparc64-X
Hot Chips While Fujitsu has made some very respectable Sparc64 chips aimed at the supercomputing market, it has been a long time since the Japanese chip and server maker has put out a new Sparc64 processor that went into general purpose servers.
Spotlight
Deep dive Enterprise automation software for the masses
Comment Stupidometer reading: 'Bad competitive analysis 101'
Analysis IBM needs to swing both ways in server land
Review Perfect upgrade for punters with a passion for the obscure
Sysadmin blog Cup of coffee actually a carboy of toxic Kool-Aid
Sysadmin blog Nuke it from orbit - it's the only way to be sure
Sysadmin blog It's all about the social networking... bitch mate
Sysadmin blog One man's shill is another man's fellow fanboi
Sysadmin blog And how I got to buy the author a beer too
Pins hopes on ASICs, mystery server-based products after dire results
