Tag: servers
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IDC starts tracking the hyperscale server market
In a recent post that highlighted the demise of the midrange server market, Timothy Prickett Morgan talked about the new server classification that IDC has just started tracking, “Density-optimized”: These are minimalist server designs that resemble blades in that they have skinny form factors but they take out all the extra stuff that hyperscale Web…
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Dell’s Cloud Plans Grab Virtual Ink
The Friday before last my boss Andy and I had a call with James Niccolai of IDG. We chatted about what we’ve been up to at Dell as well as teed up what we have in store for the near distant future. Here is the result: PCworld, “Dell Plans New Line of ‘cloud’ Servers this…
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Volume Servers: It’s the Software Stupid
Earlier this week I read an interesting entry from former Sun compadre Ken Oestreich. Ken’s piece entitled, “Why (and How) Low-Cost Servers Will Dominate — Or, why high-end servers will be obviated by software…” explains: The age of high-end, super-redundant, high-reliability servers is slowly coming to an end. They’re being replaced by volume servers and…