Olympic-level server tossing contest seeks entrants – warranty voiding guaranteed It's geeks gone wild Bootnotes06 Mar 2024 | 16
Nvidia now plays kingmaker in the server court, says Omdia AI's appetite for compute means general refreshes stalled as customer used budgets elsewhere On-Prem05 Mar 2024 | 1
French cloud Scaleway starts renting Alibaba's RISC-V SoC €15.99/month server offered with Ubuntu or Debian, and a zero percent Service Level Agreement Systems04 Mar 2024 | 7
Dell share price jumps 16% on mention of AI server backlog Not bad considering exec had said '2024 didn't go as planned' due to declining overall sales On-Prem01 Mar 2024 | 9
Lenovo to offer certified refurbished PCs and servers Updated Running proof of concepts to pick out the right models On-Prem01 Mar 2024 | 23
HPE blames GPU shortage for contributing to unexpected sales slide Even when Nvidia delivers, customers struggle to get datacenters ready to handle the heat On-Prem01 Mar 2024 | 4
Oxide reimagines private cloud as... a 2,500-pound blade server? Analysis Rackscale system can be had with up to 2,048 cores, 32TB of RAM, and nearly a petabyte of flash On-Prem16 Feb 2024 | 38
Nginx web server forked as Freenginx to escape corporate overlords Project hails from its original motherland of Russia Applications16 Feb 2024 | 20
Amazon extends the life of its servers to six years, expects $900m benefit in 90 days Cloud optimization efforts ebb, and migrations resume Off-Prem02 Feb 2024 | 16
Deep Green gets £200M from power supplier to scale waste heat reuse Octopus Energy wants to back server-cooling, district heating projects On-Prem16 Jan 2024 | 17
Lenovo leaps into AI limelight with Intel's Emerald Rapids Incoming datacenter chips will power new ThinkAgile, ThinkSystem boxes Systems15 Dec 2023 | 1
Thirty-nine weeks: That's how long you'll be waiting for an AI server from Dell Revenue and net income down, server market flickers, PCs fail to ignite On-Prem01 Dec 2023 | 22
HPE targets enterprises with Nvidia-powered platform for tuning AI HPE Discover EMEA 'We feel like enterprises are either going to become AI powered, or they're going to become obsolete' On-Prem30 Nov 2023 | 5
Server sales down 31% at HPE as enterprises hack spending Customers still 'digesting' shipments bought in 2022, says exec in mixed fiscal year for hardware biz On-Prem29 Nov 2023 | 12
Epyc 3 ain't done yet – AMD extends availability to 2026, unleashes six more SKUs Three-year-old cores, but hey – they're cheap, relatively speaking Systems07 Nov 2023 | 2
Ampere leads a pack of AI startups to challenge Nvidia's 'unsustainable' GPUs AI Platform Alliance probably has Jensen Huang in tears...of laughter AI + ML18 Oct 2023 | 2
Cloudflare exiles baseboard management controller from its server motherboards Puts Datacenter-ready Secure Control Modules to work in boxen built by Lenovo Systems17 Oct 2023 | 1
Chinese CPUs to feature in servers made by sanctioned Russian company Beijing appears to have lifted its ban on Loongson processors reaching Moscow Systems17 Oct 2023 | 15
Red Hat retires mailing list, leaving Linux loyalists to read between the lines Comment Email is just so 20th century OSes11 Oct 2023 | 33
Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard Exclusive US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in quantum state of uncertainty Public Sector05 Oct 2023 | 96
Facing a 30% price rise to park servers in a colo? Blame AI Amygdala analogues are hogging all the rackspace On-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 3
Dell allows DPUs to be retrofitted to older PowerEdge servers As VMware emits a significant update to the vSphere suite that wrangles the accelerators Systems25 Sep 2023 | 2
Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, slims down wallets Fewer boxes shipped, but with 8 H100s apiece, revenue is up amid AI frenzy Systems19 Sep 2023 | 4
37 Signals says cloud repatriation plan has already saved it $1 million CTO David Heinemeier Hansson reckons he’s on track to hit $10 million over five years On-Prem18 Sep 2023 | 53
Cloud is here to stay, but customers are starting to question the cost Feature 'Hyperscalers made it sound like it was all self-service, in reality it was not' Cloud Infrastructure Week11 Sep 2023 | 26
Toyota servers ran out of storage, crashed production at 14 plants in Japan Oh, what a foul-up as database maintenance created a mess On-Prem07 Sep 2023 | 58
Dell and Samsung grab first-class tickets for AI hype train Stock prices shoot up thanks to tech flavor of the moment AI + ML01 Sep 2023 | 6
Misfiring Lenovo hires Ford director to help with revamp Hold onto your hats people, Lenovo to invest $1B in AI as hardware sales falter On-Prem21 Aug 2023 | 10
Let's play... Force off the power to someone else's datacenter systems DEF CON Trellix bods say it's not that hard to do, thanks to these vulnerabilities Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2023 | 14
Digital Realty: We hear you like your racks dense, how does 70kW sound? What else do you do when a single GPU node needs 10kW? On-Prem08 Aug 2023 | 6
Another thing you can blame AI for: Cloud grows but server shipments are down Investment shifts to meet demand, say analysts. And demand is based on FOMO. WCGW? Systems07 Aug 2023 | 1
Out of nowhere, India requires PC and server makers to get an import license This is one way to kickstart local manufacturing On-Prem04 Aug 2023 | 21
Meltdown avoided: Intel rediscovers profitability Pat on the back for Pat who's back in the black after getting costs whacked and demand stacked On-Prem28 Jul 2023 | 2
Inspur warns of profit plunge as sanctions bite Cites 'tight supply' of certain silicon – the sort of stuff that makes servers interesting On-Prem14 Jul 2023 | 2
HPE prepares for spicy affair with India to churn out $1B worth of servers Middle Kingdom suddenly a less appealing destination for manufacturing On-Prem06 Jul 2023 | 4
Server shipments fall ... just as AI drives demand for costlier kit Conflicting feedback makes 2023 an especially difficult year to predict PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2023 | 3
AWS makes its hybrid cloud behave a bit more like normal, boring, on-prem servers At last you can pick a dedicated host to run your Amazonian workload Sysadmin Month21 Jun 2023 | 5
How do you boost server efficiency? Buy new kit, keep it busy Increase in efficiency between 2017 and 2019 hardware is 34% for Intel servers, 140% for AMD, claims report On-Prem09 Jun 2023 | 17
AWS teases mysterious mil-spec 'Snowblade' server Hybrid cloud hardware capable of running 208 vCPUs and a handful of cloud services while living on the edge On-Prem07 Jun 2023 | 12
Foxconn is ecstatic you're all going gaga for AI servers Keep that hype train rolling, please AI + ML01 Jun 2023 | 1
Nvidia creates open server spec to house its own chips – and the occasional x86 Computex Taiwan's big OEMs are all-in on plan to build servers that won't cook when running AI Systems29 May 2023 | 3
It's time for IT teams, vendors to prioritize efficiency; here's where they should start Hint: Greener gear is only the half of it Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week16 May 2023 | 5
To quench AI's thirst, the way we build, operate datacenters needs to change AI infrastructure isn't just hot and power hungry, it's uses a prodigous amount of water researchers tell El Reg Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week15 May 2023 | 7
Some potential: How bad software updates could over-volt, brick remote servers Video PMFault – from the eggheads who brought you Plundervolt and Voltpillager Cyber-crime15 May 2023 | 3
UK monopoly watchdog gives Broadcom-VMware probe a tight timetable If the news is bad for chip giant, a remedy will need to be found very quickly indeed Virtualization24 Apr 2023 | 3
IBM starts renting cloudy bare metal Linux almost-mainframes LinuxONE servers come to the Big Blue cloud PaaS + IaaS21 Apr 2023 | 9
Stratus ships latest batch of fault-tolerant Xeon servers OK, they're a bit old in terms of Intel kit, but these aren't your regular systems Systems14 Apr 2023 | 13
Intel pulls plug on server system design division Blueprints flogged off to Taiwan's MiTAC On-Prem13 Apr 2023 | 5
OVH punts hybrid water and immersion cooling for high performance systems Air by itself just doesn't cut it anymore Energy Efficient Datacenters13 Apr 2023 | 10
Microsoft tells admins to autoreview your Autopatch alerts or autolose the service And you wouldn't want that ... would you? Security05 Apr 2023 | 20
Amtrak back on track after server breakdown forces dozens of cancellations Sounds like some IT teams are due for some training Software27 Mar 2023 | 7
Windows 11 puts 'disgusting' Remote Mailslots protocol out of its misery It's simple, unreliable, insecure, and on its way out OSes13 Mar 2023 | 65
US plays Whac-A-Mole with Inspur subsidiaries to close China sanction loopholes If your name's not on the entity list ... you're OK to do business with American companies On-Prem11 Mar 2023 | 8
US adds Inspur – friend to Intel, IBM, Cisco and hyperscalers – to export ban list Loongson, China’s most advanced chipmaker and a desktop contender, also added to entity list On-Prem06 Mar 2023 | 1
Salesforce banks savings by sweating tech infrastructure for an extra year Revenue rocks, but boosting margins means five year old servers and four year old PCs SaaS02 Mar 2023 | 8
Kremlin claims Ukraine hackers behind fake missile strike alerts Ten cities panic after emergency systems start Putin out warnings of an impending attack Security23 Feb 2023 | 71
Save $7 million on cloud by spending $600k on servers, says 37Signals' David Heinemeier Hansson Not doing the sums on repatriation is 'financial malpractice at this point' PaaS + IaaS22 Feb 2023 | 75
IBM cheapens Oracle by delivering promised power-up for some POWER servers Plus – calm down now – all the fun of OS subscriptions! Spotlight on Databases15 Feb 2023 | 3
Heata offers free hot water by mounting servers on people's water tanks Novel use of waste heat by UK company – but it's still in trial On-Prem12 Jan 2023 | 52
After long delays, Sapphire Rapids arrives, full of accelerators and superlatives Look at our big claims, but don’t think about how AMD beat us in the DDR5, PCIe 5 race Systems10 Jan 2023 | 26
Microsoft boosts Azure networking, storage with composable infra grab Slurps ‘Fungible’, a manufacturer of DPUs and fabrics that will join Redmond’s engineering gang Off-Prem10 Jan 2023 | 2
Taiwan's Gigabyte spins off server biz as wholly owned subsidiary Consumer motherboard tech will reside in unit that's left behind On-Prem04 Jan 2023 | 3