Tag: hosting
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Intel version of Dell’s third gen Microserver now available
Over the past three years Dell’s Data Center Solutions group has been designing custom microservers for a select group of web hosters. The first generation allowed one of France’s largest hosters, Online.net to enter a new market and gain double digit market share. The second generation brought additional capabilities to the original design along with…
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Intel’s Jason Waxman on Sandy Bridge, Atom and our new Intel-based Microserver
World Hosting Days is going on right now outside of Frankfurt and our group is using this event to debut our new PowerEdge C microservers. These new microservers, which come in both Intel and AMD flavors, are right-sized for dedicated hosting applications and provide extreme density and efficiency. Yesterday, we got a shout out during…
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Live from World Hosting Days – AMD’s John Freuhe talks about the AMD based PowerEdge C systems
This week, outside of Frankfurt, WorldHostingDays is taking place. A whole delegation of folks from the Data Center Solutions group is there to support the announcement of our new microserver line. A lot of our key partners are there as well. One such partner is AMD. Earlier today, AMD director of product marketing John Fruehe…
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And on the other end of the spectrum — Microservers
Monday I wrote about the announcement of our mega-beefy, 96-core PowerEdge C6145 server, specifically geared to customers solving big problems involving huge and complex data sets in mapping, visualization, simulations and rendering. At the other end of the spectrum however are customers, such as those offering low-end dedicated hosting solutions, who are looking for systems…
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Welcome the uber-dense AMD-based Cloud/ HPC machine
The last couple of Dell Data Center Solutions offerings I’ve talked about, Viking and MDC, have been from the custom side of the house. Both of these solutions are targeted specifically at a few select large customers. The subject of today’s post however, the PowerEdge C6105 server, is available to anyone running a scaled out…
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Enter the Viking: Light Weight server for Hosting and Web 2.0
Over the last few years, we have been working with some of the world’s biggest hyperscale data center operators, folks who are deploying thousands, to tens of thousands of servers at a time. Within this select group, the theme that keeps coming up over and over is uber-efficiency. The customers that we’ve been working with…
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Back to the Future with Light Weight Servers
Light weight servers have been gathering steam recently. Targeted at focused markets like hosting and Web 2.0 they feature the old school architecture of placing one CPU per server and running one OS/application on that server. The new twist here is that they can pack up to 12 servers per one 3U enclosure. Below, Dell…
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Rackspace goes down (2X), their President steps up
If you’ve been following the cloud space at all you’ll know that hosting provider Rackspace recently lost power twice within a span of 10 days. As NetworkWorld explained: Power outages on June 29 and July 7 hit Rackspace’s 144,000-square-foot data center in the Dallas suburb of Grapevine. Rackspace operates nine data centers worldwide for about…