Servers
Facebook joins Linaro Linux-on-ARM effort
More ARM chippies, plus Red Hat and Canonical
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Oracle's mighty Sparc plug fries Fujitsu, bigs up new processor
Analysis El Reg drills into database giant's decision to go it alone
Nationwide to perform IT equivalent of 'replacing jet engine mid-flight'
On my count: Pull it all off mainframes and onto SAP
Windows Server 2012: Microsoft's other Big Push
Liam Proven walks us through the technical launch
AMD, Samsung must be ARMed to the teeth to oust Intel servers
Analysis The attack always comes from below - and at the edges
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
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
Dell dream team fantasizes about flashy and easy infrastructure
Wakes up with Active System 'enterprise solution' in hand
Teradata forges upgraded Aster, data warehouse appliances
Smell the new Xeon E5 iron and unified data environment
Enterprise servers go soft at Intel in Q3
Cloud builders humming along, four-socketeers slowing
Calxeda plots server dominance with ARM SoCs
Prepping a MEEELLION-NODE fleet services enema for data centers
SGI munches MarkLogic database, hatches Dataraptor appliance
Having big data for lunch
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
Fujitsu, Oracle pair up on future 'Athena' Sparc64 chips
OpenWorld 2012 But Larry may not resell servers that use them
Windows System Center 2012: The review
Deep dive Microsoft's System Center suite of products is not easy to categorize as a group. The breadth of the offerings falling under the System Center moniker makes being asked to review all of System Center in a single article somewhat intimidating.
Oracle cranks up the flash with Exadata X3 systems
OpenWorld 2012 System maker Oracle is not content with the feeds and speeds of its Exadata clusters for running data warehousing and online transaction processing, so co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison announced a fourth generation of machines with substantially expanded main and flash memory.
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.
Spotlight
Where do we begin...
Analysis El Reg drills into database giant's decision to go it alone
On my count: Pull it all off mainframes and onto SAP
Liam Proven walks us through the technical launch
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
