Data Center


World's Largest HDD Aimed at Datacenters Revealed by Western Digital

Western Digital this month unveiled technology with which the company intends to produce the world's first 14TB enterprise-class HDD.

Hitachi Announces Smart Data Center Suite

Hitachi announced a major reorganization last week and a new datacenter management suite.

Flash Storage Arrays and Decreased Cost To Grow Global Datacenter Market

The growing adoption of all-flash storage arrays, a decline in infrastructure prices, and the increasing adoption of unified storage architectures will help the overall datacenter market to grow over the next four years, a new report argues.

Java Runtime for Datacenter-Based ARM Processors Released

A collaboration from Java runtime solutions provider Azul Systems Inc and Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies Inc.is bringing about new versions of Zulu Embedded and Zulu Enterprise.

IBM's Latest Mainframe Includes Constant Encryption Protection

IBM this week unveiled it's latest mainframe IBM Z, which is capable of running more than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day.

AMD Challenges Intel Datacenter Dominance

Declaring a "new era in the datacenter," AMD introduced a new server processor family last week that offers the first real challenge in years to the market dominance of Intel's Xeon processors.

Seeking to Become High-End Leader, Lenovo Revamps Datacenter Portfolio

In a bid to become the high-performance and super-computing systems leader, Lenovo announced a revamp of its entire datacenter portfolio, describing the move as its largest and broadest rollout of new and refreshed hardware.



Microsoft's Focus on Containers Shrinks Nano Server Scope

A new Nano Server configuration will shrink its image footprint by 50 percent and remove its infrastructure role as Microsoft focuses on a headless configuration option for deployment of container-based environments.

Dell Revamps PowerEdge Servers

Dell has updated its lineup to handle the changing model of computing that can have files, storage, networking and compute anywhere.

Report: 'Vast Majority' of Enterprise Workloads Still On-Premises

Despite the much-publicized migration of enterprise datacenter infrastructure to cloud platforms, a new report from Uptime Institute indicates most workloads are still running on-premises.

For Software-Defined Networking, Vodafone Picks Nuage Networks in Datacenter Transformation

Nuage Networks will lend its SDN expertise to Vodafone's "Project Ocean" cloud-centric initiative to virtualize and link its datacenter networks.

Ubuntu Heads List of Top Linux Servers in Enterprise Datacenters

ServerWatch considered ease of installation and use, cost, available commercial support and datacenter reliability in formulating its ranking.

Microsoft Previews Future of SQL Server

Microsoft's recent Connect() conference provided a peek into the future of its flagship SQL Server RDBMS.

Dell EMC Extends High Performance Computing Wares to Mainstream Enterprises

Dell EMC today said it was "democratizing" high performance computing by extending its HPC cloud, software and systems offerings to more mainstream enterprises.

Windows Server 2016 Images Available on Google Compute Engine

The Google Cloud Platform team announced support for Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition, the latest version of Microsoft's server OS, on Google Compute Engine.

Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 Ready for Production Use

Windows Server 2016 and the System Center 2016 management suite of products have reached "general availability" status, Microsoft announced.

Report: Dell Surpasses HPE in Server Shipments

Dell surpassed Hewlett Packard Enterprise in server shipments in the second quarter, according to new research from Gartner Inc., but HPE maintained its lead in server revenue.

Survey Shows Enterprise Workloads Moving to Cloud

451 Research has published a study indicating that enterprise IT execs expect 60 percent of workloads to run in the cloud by 2018.

Inspur Unveils Hyperconverged Solutions

Inspur launched its new family of InCloud 3000 hyperconverged server solutions for large and mid-sized datacenters at the recent Intel Developer Forum.

Nimble Storage Offers All-Flash Entry Point

Enterprises looking for an entry point into all-flash storage are the target of a new offering from Nimble Storage, which specializes in predictive flash.