Servers
AMD to partner with ARM for server CPUs by 2014
SeaMicro's fabric is the 'secret sauce'
Dell lends Apache ARM software efforts a hand
Forges 'Zinc' custom Calxeda ARM server
Rackspace to ride Hortonworks elephant into the clouds
Hadoop World Yahoo! should! buy! back! Hadoop! spinout!
MapR simplifies and extends HBase for Hadoop
Hadoop World And clones Google's Dremel to drill into big data
Penguin Computing muscles into the ARM server fray
Aiming Cortex-A9 clusters at Big Data
Dell dream team fantasizes about flashy and easy infrastructure
Wakes up with Active System 'enterprise solution' in hand
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Unisys pumps up ClearPath mainframes with Xeon E5s
Just about all Intel Inside and all done with homegrown CPUs
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
ARM upstart Calxeda pours $55m into server chip war chest
Hints at future 64-bit processors
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
Power7+ chips debut in fat IBM midrange systems
Near the top at first, trickling down to smaller boxes next year
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
'Your app will work on Windows 8 - but please rewrite it anyway'
Microsoft bigwig adds: 'We’re not afraid to make hard calls'
Inphi: Don't skimp on memory for those virty servers
The new Xeon E5 processors from Intel pack considerable oomph, but if you want to squeeze the most performance out of them, particularly in virtualized server environments doing real transaction processing and web front-end workloads, you have to remember the oldest bit of advice for the systems racket: don't skimp on the main memory.
IBM: Last chance to load up on Power 6+
With the Power7+ processors and their related Power Systems machinery looming on the horizon sometime before the end of the year – and sooner rather than later if the murmuring on the street is any indication – it is no surprise that Big Blue is beginning the process of winding down sales of new Power6+ system boards and related peripherals.
Dell bends shiny server linings for denser clouds
You can only cram so much stuff into a chassis that is two rack units high, and so server maker Dell is shifting to a 4U chassis for its latest "Zeus" PowerEdge C8000 design. The new Zeus chassis is designed from the ground up to pack more CPUs, coprocessors, and storage into a 4U space than Dell was able to get into two 2U C6220 enclosures.
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
