Start-up Egenera believes a mixture of Linux, ordinary Intel chips and high-end hardware will vault its servers ahead of established giants such as Compaq and IBM. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

For years, Microsoft has been delivering speedy and accurate Bing results with experimental servers called Project Catapult, which have now received an architectural upgrade. The Catapult servers use ...

Facebook on Wednesday outlined its new server design that aims to improve performance per watt and contributed it to the Open Compute Project. With most of the cloud and enterprise heavy hitters ...

The Open Compute Project (OCP) was founded in 2011 with the goal of commoditizing servers. Nowhere in the OCP charter will you find the word “commoditize,” but the intent is obvious. A Facebook ...

IBM announced the eServer X3 architecture on Tuesday, the third major upgrade in its five-year Xeon server design programme. The company claims nearly 40 percent speed increase over existing products, ...

Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new line of x86 servers for companies that operate massive computing facilities, where shaving a few dollars off the energy or shipping costs for each system can add ...

Newisys, a server start-up founded by IBM alumni, is trying to hit the big time by bringing Advanced Micro Devices' chips to the corporate market. The Austin, Texas-based company hopes to make its ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Facebook today announced a new server design it calls Big Basin, a successor to ...

Today’s powerful and affordable low-end servers have resulted in a scaling out in the data center to a more distributed computing model. As servers become overloaded or databases grow, IT has ...

“The memory system is a major performance determinant for server processors. Ever-growing core counts and datasets demand higher bandwidth and capacity as well as lower latency from the memory system.