tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52745789541956129602024-02-18T21:02:34.040-05:00A Server BlogConnecting everyone to everythingAndy Wendthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01442779713721596612noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274578954195612960.post-73080536561945910342015-11-20T10:45:00.000-05:002015-11-20T10:45:55.333-05:00Looking For An Alternative To Intel? ARM Chips May Be That Answer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Remember how hard it was to get your hands on an ARM server? Well, those days may very well be behind us as five computer makers have announced servers with ARM processors. These new servers are direct competition to x86 systems in the mainstream market and are primarily designed for internet and cloud workloads. In addition to that, they also have the 48-core Cavium ThunderX chip, which is based on 64-bit ARM architecture.<br />
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The five companies making these <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/computers/servers" title="Nationwide Server Rentals for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!" target="_blank">servers</a> are Gigabyte, Inventec, Wistron, Penguin Computing, and E4 Computer Engineering and these servers will be based on designs that are popular in x86 servers though they will have ARM processors. However, there is an even more interesting aspect to this and that is that some of the new servers will have the ability to use Nvidia's Tesla graphics processors, which adds extra processing power for graphics, engineering, and other computing applications that require high-performance.<br />
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All of the systems generally have one or two sockets and all of them have different strengths. Gigabyte's servers can be configured with up to 24 2.5" hard drives, which makes it perfect for web serving or storage. Penguin Computing's 19" Valkre system will be shipping in 2016 and is aimed at high-performance computing and has the ability to be configured with SSDs and different I/O technologies. Wistron's WV-S7224-10 and WV-A7424 are 2U and 4U storage servers. All of the servers, however, share power and cooling resources.<br />
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A majority of the companies announcing ARM servers are capable of making and supplying servers to buyers directly, which eliminates the middleman that is usually involved in the whole selling process. Companies like Wistron and Inventec are also capable of making an impact as server vendors in China whereas some of the other companies cannot. Pricing for the servers has yet to become available from any of the five companies though the servers themselves were announced at the Supercomputing 15 conference in <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/us/texas/austin" target="_blank" title="Technology Rentals for Your Austin, Texas Business Event from Rentacomputer!">Austin, Texas</a> this past week.<br />
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ARM develops and licenses its processor architecture and is best known for its mobile chips found in most <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/wireless/smartphones" target="_blank" title="Smartphone Rentals for Your Business Event Nationwide from Rentacomputer!">smartphones</a>. A lot of people believe that the power efficiency that is derived from the mobile chips could very well translate to low-power ARM servers though as of now only a couple of systems have been made available. The most noteworthy system is the Moonshot from <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/hp" target="_blank" title="HP Rentals for Your Business Event Anywhere in the U.S. from Rentacomputer!">Hewlett-Packard</a> Enterprise.<br />
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These new servers could be the motivation that ARM needs to make a serious push towards dominating the server market. Chip makers are having a very hard time generating profits with mobile and <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/computers/desktops" target="_blank" title="Desktop Computer Rentals Nationwide for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!">PC</a> chips considering margins are thin for those systems. As a result, servers could be a very profitable alternative for vendors using ARM-architecture chips. AMD is planning on offering both x86-architecture and ARM-architecture chips as it continues to rebuild its server product line.<br />
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Oracle has announced a brand new line of <a title="Nationwide Server Rentals for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!" href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/computers/servers" target="_blank">servers</a> at OpenWorld recently that are based on a new Sparc processor known as the M7. This upgrade has the typical improvements that you would expect in a new chip, including more cores, bigger caches, and higher bandwidth though the most interesting thing is software functions that Oracle has embedded into the silicon that improves the performance and security of applications. These include a memory-protection technology that is capable of providing a new level of security for in-memory databases along with an acceleration engine that allows data to be decompressed in near-real time for analytics. As a result, you get a wider use of compressed data.<br />
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According to Principal Analyst at Insight64 Nathan Brookwood, "Both of those are very interesting, because they're features I don't think a company that makes just chips -- that didn't have the software guys working with them -- would have invented." Brookwood has asked Oracle what new features it was able to include on each new processor the company has released as a result of owning both companies." Invariably they would say, well, you know, it takes time to do that, we don't really have anything yet," Brookwood added. "But with the M7, they do."<br />
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This is also the first new Sparc processor core designed entirely in-house by Oracle. It takes four to six years to design a new microprocessor, which has been the time frame that Oracle has owned Sun. "This is the first project that has Larry's fingerprints all over it," added Marshall Choy, Oracle Senior Director for Optimized Solutions. The M7 is currently on sale now and is in new models of Oracle's T-Series and M-Series servers along with an upgrade to the Oracle Supercluster, which is a pre-configured system for running the Oracle database.<br />
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The memory-protection <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/products" target="_blank">technology</a>, which is also known as "silicon-secured memory", prevents malicious programs from accessing parts of main memory that they're not used to, thus disposing of a common attack method for hackers. Whenever a new application needs new memory, the M7 creates a unique "color bit" which ensures the application can access only the portion of memory assigned to it. When the application process ends, the color bit expires and a new one is created for the next allocation of memory. "That's how we can prevent a piece of malware from accessing a memory segment it's not authorized to, because it will do that color code checking and abort the program if it doesn't match," Choy added.<br />
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This is particularly significant due to the fact that customers are storing large amounts of data in memory for analytics, where it is more susceptible to attacks. The secured memory technology will be available to any application that runs on the M7 systems, Choy said, and not just ones from Oracle. In addition to that, it is also capable of uncovering low-level bugs in software because it exposes any problems with memory allocation. For decompression, the accelerator in the chip will run at the full speed of Oracle's in-memory database. This means that customers will be able to use compressed data for in-memory computing without the performance overhead that they would normally have to deal with.<br />
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Oracle is offering the M7 chip in the T-Series servers, which are typically used for scale-out configurations, and in the M-Series servers, which scale up to form big SMP boxes. This is also the first time the company will use the same processor across both product lines and, according to Choy, "We literally have one chip. We have exactly on part number for the M7."<br />
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If you thought that OpenStack and Docker containers were competitive technologies then you thought wrong. In fact, the exact opposite is true as Oracle is now offering the very best proof yet in using Docker images as a mechanism to install an OpenStack cloud.<br />
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Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux Release 2 (that's a mouthful) is now available and gives users an interesting new way to benefit from Docker and OpenStack simultaneously. This new release is based on the OpenStack Kilo milestone that came out on October 15th. Senior Vice President of Linux and Virtualization Engineering at Oracle Wim Coekaerts has said that Oracle's goal is to provide a single release per year of OpenStack. "At this time, we see a release per year as a good mix between being current and being stable. Our first release was based on Icehouse, we skipped Juno, and picked up Kilo. We plan to skip Liberty and pick up a release after Liberty," Coekaerts stated.<br />
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He also stated that OpenStack releases are development releases similar to how the distributions from Linux acquire a specific upstream kernel and stabilize it. He went on to say that Oracle treats OpenStack in the same way by picking up a version of OpenStack, testing it, developing it, packaging it, and hardening it before releasing a new version of Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux.<br />
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Coekaerts noted, "If we did this with every version it would not be effective for customers since they would always be upgrading, and stability is important to our customers. Liberty is brand new. At Oracle, we spend a lot of time testing, packaging, fixing, and developing in-depth integration; this is needed to help ensure our products are shipped enterprise ready."<br />
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When the first release of Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux came out, the platform was packaged as individual RPM packages for each and every component, similar to how vendors package OpenStack. Coekaerts stated that in that particular model, an administrator for a cloud would be required to install an operating system and then install and configure every rpm. "Now, with Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux Release 2, we provide an entire preconfigured/installed image with all the Oracle Linux bits needed (and not more, or less) and all the OpenStack components needed (not more or less), that simplifies things for customers," Coekaerts added.<br />
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Coekaerts also provided an example of the package list that is to be installed on top of Oracle Linux as part of an OpenStack installation. You can find that here. Coekaerts added, "All of that is now contained in a nice Docker image for each module, and updates are based on Docker image updates. The nice thing is that each service is broken up in a separate Docker container."<br />
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The advantages to having OpenStack packaged as a Docker image include things like improved visibility. Coekaerts went on to say that pre-Docker, there would have been hundreds of python daemons installed and running with no breakdown, meaning that an administrator would have to do ps auxww and witness a labyrinth of processes in order to discover what is running and what is not.<br />
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"With Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux Release 2, each component is a separate Docker instance and a simple Docker ps will show all the different-named OpenStack services running - it's much cleaner," according to Coekaerts.<br />
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Considering the fact that Docker instances are simply filesystem checkouts on a filesystem, a system administrator has the ability go into the subdirectory for the Docker instance and view everything that is installed, according to Coekaerts. System administrators also have the ability to use the Docker tools to see which versions, what the changelog is, and other things about whatever is running. "By running Docker instances for services, it makes it simpler and easier to manage a complex product like OpenStack, compared to running many processes," Coekaerts stated. "It also gives a better overview of what is running and what is not."<br />
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Taking a look at server sales in the second quarter showed that things have stayed pretty steady. This is extra good news considering there was a decreasing demand for midrange systems, according to research firm IDC. During this time, vendors as a whole saw their server revenue increase by 6.1% year over year to $13.5 billion. In addition to that, server shipments also increased by 3.2% from one year ago.<br />
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Moreover, revenue in the market also saw an increase on sales of higher-end servers and lower-end servers used for hyperscale computing. However, the demand for midrange <a title="Short-Term Server Rentals for Your Business from Rentacomputer!" href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/servers">servers</a> decreased by 5.4% year over year. This could be attributed to the recent ending of the x86 server refresh cycle, according to IDC.<br />
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In the second quarter, <a title="Nationwide HP Computer Rentals for Your Business Event from Rentacomputer!" href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/hp">HP</a> contained its top spot as the market leader with a share of 25.4%. The company's density-optimized servers were also in high demand as sales of the products saw a major increase of 119% year over year. <a title="Dell Computer Rentals for Your Business from Rentacomputer!" href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/dell">Dell</a> came in second place with a 17.5% share as its <a title="Blade Server Rentals Nationwide from Rentacomputer!" href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/servers/blade-servers">blade servers</a> and <a title="Rack-Mount Server Rentals for Your Business from Rentacomputer!" href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/servers/rack-mount">rack servers</a> experienced healthy growth.<br />
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Coming in third place was IBM and the company was also the only vendor in the top five to see its market share and revenue fall during the quarterly period. IBM sold off its x86 server business to Chinese PC developer <a title="Lenovo Computer Rentals for Your Business from Rentacomputer!" href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/lenovo">Lenovo</a> last year and, as a result, its server revenue saw a hefty decrease of 32.9% year over year.<br />
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On the other hand, Lenovo saw its server revenue completely skyrocket by over 500%, which was a definite benefit from the acquisition deal with IBM. The China-based company is also hoping to become a major player in the server industry as it has begun diversifying away from its traditional market of PC sales. In addition to that, Lenovo also reached a statistical tie with Cisco for fourth place in the server market.<br />
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In terms of geography, the United States was the fastest-growing market for servers, with 12.6% year over year growth. The Asia Pacific region, which excludes Japan, came in second to the United States with 12% growth.<br />
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With the x86 server refresh cycle over we can probably assume that midrange servers will continue to see a decline. However, with the numbers of growth posted by both the high-end and low-end markets, we can also assume that the server market is going to steadily increase.<br />
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This year server vendors saw the biggest growth in shipments in over 4 years so far. This is mainly due to the continued investments in the hyperscale server infrastructures that power all of the private and public cloud services. So this is a really big year for the industry, the best since the huge economic downturn a few years back. In the first quarter shipments grew by 13%, which is about 2.7 million units shipped out. Revenue grew by 18%, equaling a staggering $13.4 billion. <br />
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There is a really strong demand for the hyperscale area in the United States, which is driving the growth we are seeing. Hyperscale is a term that describes the systems that use thousands of <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/servers">servers</a> to provide power to cloud and big data infrastructures. Every form factor is in more demand too, including rack-optimized, blade, density-optimized, and <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/servers/tower-servers">tower servers</a>.<br />
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Hewlett-Packard was the number one vendor in revenue and in volume, closely followed by Dell in the number two spot. Hewlett-Packard <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/servers/rack-mount">rack-optimized servers</a> are in very high demand at the moment. Even though their server business is pretty small compared to everything else they offer, they experience a huge amount of revenue growth compared to this time last year.<br />
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Oddly enough, even though there was so much growth in the server department, they weren't able to keep up with the competition. Overall, their revenue share dropped from 25.5% to 23.8% and it's marketing share by volume dropped 2.6% points down to 20%. Last week, Hewlett-Packard said that they are planning on splitting up into two separate companies later this year. One company would be selling enterprise equipment and services while the other company would be selling the standard PCs and printers.<br />
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Dell is kind of in the same boat. They had increased revenue and shipments but were not able to keep up with the rest of the market. Dell's share of revenue and shipments both slipped by just under 1 percentage point leaving them at 17.1% and 19%. They did, however, see revenue growth in rack-optimized products and density-optimized servers as well.<br />
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HP and Dell were at the top of the market when it came to revenue and shipments, but product mix made for some differences between the rest of the top five rankings by revenue and shipments. IBM was in third place for server revenue, followed by Lenovo and Cisco Systems. Lenovo was number three in server shipments ahead of Huawei Technologies and Inspur Electronics.<br />
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While HP and Dell led the market by both revenue and shipments, product mix led to some differences between the rest of the top five rankings by revenue and shipments. IBM had the third-largest server revenue, followed by Lenovo and Cisco Systems, while Lenovo was third by server shipments, ahead of Huawei Technologies and Inspur Electronics. Lenovo and IBM's numbers were also of course affected by Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's x86 server business.<br />
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Cisco has a revenue growth of 44.4% from last year which is way above average. Their blade server business is also growing and getting more revenue from <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/servers/blade-servers">blade servers</a> than every company on the list besides Hewlett-Packard.<br />
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It's good to see the server industry see growth. Cloud computing has driven business in other sectors of technology and the server industry was definitely in need of a pick-me-up.<br />
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Microsoft is getting ready to do away with some old software yet again. The only problem is that pretty much everyone is still using it. Now, if companies don't upgrade, they will be left defenseless against hackers... And we all remember what happened last time. <br />
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Even though most businesses still use Microsoft Windows Server 2003 the company is still ending support for this software on July 14th of this year. No more patches are going to come out for it after that. This is pretty terrible considering most of the computers that process everything at all of those websites you shop at are using the software. Not just that, but apparently 21% of all <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/servers">servers</a> everywhere are running Windows Server 2003, and 97% of data centers still use it as well. That is a staggering number! Unless all of those companies upgrade immediately, there are probably going to be some serious issues popping up this summer.<br />
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Even if the companies do decide to upgrade, for some reason it apparently takes 200 days to upgrade. I'm not a <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/computers/desktops">computer</a> genius or a rocket scientist, but that seems pretty extreme. This means there is going to be a gap of at least a couple of months where servers will be prone to hacking threats. This is exactly how hospitals lost 4.5 million patent records last year. Not only that, but we all remember when they dropped support for <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/windows8">Windows</a> XP and a ton of ATM machines were exposed to attacks. It was so bad that the Chinese government banned Windows 8 from all government computers.<br />
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Now, if you own a company and don't plan on upgrading... You CAN pay for custom support. The only catch is that it will cost you a quarter of a million dollars per year. Doesn't seem like such a good idea. It seems like they are really pushing people hard to upgrade here. If you haven't yet, it is certainly something to think about. Quickly.<br />
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Dell recently debuted its PowerEdge R930, an enterprise application of its PowerEdge server lineup. This new launch is a part of Dell's attempt at capturing more workloads, including analytics. The R930 is specifically aimed at the traditional enterprise running workloads, like enterprise and customer relationship management applications from Oracle and SAP.<br />
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Executive Director of <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/servers/dell">Dell Server</a> Solutions Brian Payne stated that the <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/servers/replacement-servers">server replacement</a> cycle will take around three to five years. However, Payne argues that performance improvements from Dell along with configurations and preintegrated applications from Cloudera, SAP HANA and Oracle should convince enterprises to upgrade. "The aim is to be future read," Payne adds.<br />
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Other enterprise vendors, like IBM, have already moved away from the x86 <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/servers">server</a> market as a commodity business but Dell is arguing that this type of server is taking UNIX workloads. Sure there's still the cloud but Payne believes that there will be growth in hybrid data centers.<br />
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The PowerEdge R930 is as follows:<br />
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In addition to that, Dell has also pre-engineered appliances based on the PowerEdge R930. Payne noted that the majority customers buy the standard R9309. Dell has also updated the PowerEdge VRTX and PowerEdge M1000e converged systems.<br />
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Dell also announced the PowerEdge FC830 and M830 blade servers. These servers are designed for database, technical computing and virtualization. The FC830 and M830 both run up to 3TB of memory and up to 72 processing cores for the Intel Xeon E5-4600 v3 processors.<br />
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Dell hasn't listed any pricing or availability for the new systems but noted that integrated systems based on the PowerEdge R930 will be available later this year.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.xenproject.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Xen Project </a>has revealed last month a lot of details on a serious vulnerability in the Xen hypervisor, one that could put the security of a lot of virtualized servers at risk. Xen is a free, open-source hypervisor that is used to create and run virtual machines and is widely used by providers of cloud computing and virtual private server hosting companies.<br />
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The security vulnerability forced Amazon Web Services and Rackspace to reboot some of their customer's virtualized servers when it was discovered. Amazon and Rackspace were among some of the major cloud providers that Xen disclosed the vulnerability to, which is being tracked as CVE-2014-7188.<br />
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This vulnerability allows a virtual machine created using Xen's hardware-assisted virtualization (HVM) to read data that is stored by other HVM guests sharing the same physical hardware. This vulnerability breaks a crucial security barrier in multi-tenant virtual environments. A malicious HVM guest could exploit the vulnerability to crash the host server, according to a security advisory published by the Xen Project.<br />
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The vulnerability only affects Xen running on x86 systems and does not affect ARM or servers virtualized with Xen's paravirtualization (PV) mode instead of HVM. Regardless, the issue is likely to affect a very large number of servers. Amazon was forced to reboot nearly 10% of its Elastic Cloud Computer (EC2) servers and a similar effort from Rackspace affected a quarter of its 200,000 customers.<br />
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Amazon scheduled a zone by zone reboot so that they didn't affect two regions or availability zones at the same time. According to a statement released by the company, "The zone by zone reboots were completed as planned and we worked very closely with our customers to ensure that the reboots went smoothly for them."<br />
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Rackspace was not as fortunate as Amazon in its process to fix the issue. Taylor Rhodes, CEO of Rackspace, sent out an email to customers about the vulnerability and Rackspace's efforts to correct it and in it stated that the company "dropped a few balls" in the process. "Some of our reboots, for example, took much longer than they should and some of our notifications were not as clear as they should have been. We are making changes to address those mistakes," Rhodes stated.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274578954195612960.post-32364068090520850072014-10-31T01:49:00.002-04:002014-11-12T12:09:26.781-05:00Cloud Computing Is Changing The Way That We Use Servers<div id="xcpost" style="padding-bottom: 5px;">
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There are not too many people out there who are familiar with virtual servers. To many people that even know what a server is, they view it as a large tower of green lights that holds all your Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. Many companies will use their own personal servers so that everyone who is connected to those servers can access company data and files. It's one of the sure fire ways to help keep company and personal data safe. Think of the servers that a company uses as massive storage decks. They're able to back up all of their files on these servers, store data, and access whatever file or project they might need to access all from the servers. The only thing is that we are becoming more digital. We are starting to digitize many of our services. Sending mail and letters turned into Email and texting. Now, our servers are becoming more digital because of cloud computing.<br />
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<b>What Is Cloud Computing?</b><br />
Cloud Computing is a very hard term to define. It all comes down to what you feel the "Cloud" is. There are many who find it to be anything you can get on a virtual server over the internet. There are others who think that it's another fancy term for whatever consumable content you can find on the internet. Neither of these answers are wrong, necessarily. Cloud computing is also referred to in a more commercial view point. It is thought that it can be defined as "encompassing any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, in real time over the internet, extends IT's existing capabilities." Essentially, anything that has a separate virtual server for it's services or applications that you have to access via the service's provider can be considered cloud computing.<br />
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It may not seem like there is too much of a difference between the two different servers (virtual and real), and in a way there isn't. They are both there to hold specific data programmed by the IT specialists that work for that specific service or company. One is physical and the other is accessed over the internet. Take utility computing for example. This concept might not be "new", but its slowly becoming more cloud integrated. Many larger companies, like Amazon, are seeing to it that that happens. While it may not be used for anything pertaining to how the service or application operates, it can help add more capacity for the site to run smoothly and even allow for more storage space. The fact is that instead of IT needing to go down to the server room to get to the server and fix or alter something, cloud computing makes it easier because they can just access the networks virtual server to alter what they need to alter.<br />
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Cloud computing is slowly beginning to take off as time goes by. Software is being offered as a service through virtual servers. It's gotten to the point now that even development environments are being offered as services through servers. There are restrictions though. The application that's being developed is based off of the infrastructure of the provider. Your app's service is then delivered to the users via the provider's internet as well. All of these services are being offered through virtual servers as it's easier for IT to make changes and help. Some even view it as more cost effective. If companies can offer services to develop, deliver, and access services and applications via a cloud server, that only means that it's becoming more popular than people think.<br />
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Now just because we are getting more virtual with our servers doesn't mean that it's still the safest route to go. Having our services and apps become more easily accessible is a plus, but that also means that it can be more easily hacked if certain precautions aren't taken.<br />
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One thing is for sure though, there is a lot more to cloud computing and cloud technology that backing up your music on iCloud.<br /><br />Need A <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/servers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Server Rental For Your Next Cloud Computing Project</a>? Try www.Rentacomputer.com<br />
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Intel recently demoed the first PC running a next-generation chip based on the new Skylake architecture. Skylake is set to hit PCs and tablets in the second half of 2015. A desktop PC with the chip was recently shown off by Intel running 4K video during an on-stage demonstration that the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. According to General Manager of Intel's PC Client Group Kirk Skaugen, "You should expect a significant increase in performance, battery life and power efficiency."<br />
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Processors based on the Skylake architecture will take the place over the chips based on the Boradwell architecture, which has been delayed following issues with the manufacturer. Broadwell was introduced in Core M chips recently and is the fifth-generation of Core chips focused on tablets. The chip architecture itself is expected to be in mainstream desktops and laptops in the first half of 2015 as well.<br />
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Skylake's release date was questioned recently due to the announcement of the Broadwell delay. Skaugen was speaking with a lot of confidence about Skylake and its release and tried to stamp out any rumors and doubts about the architecture's release. In addition to that, Skaugen also stressed that the chip will be in desktops, laptops and tablets by the end of 2015. In addition to that, the Skylake chips will be made using the 14nm process, which is the same one Broadwell uses, though Skylake will have an all new chip design.<br />
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Skylake will also set the tone for wire-free computing on PCs, according to Skaugen. Intel will provide a reference platform that is based on the chip, which could reduce cable clutter in both PCs and tablets. Sakugen said that the overall goal is to enable wireless charging and data streaming between PCs and peripherals.<br />
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Wireless tech is certainly making waves, though there are still limitations that are struggling to catch on. Wireless charging is doing some nice things but it still isn't quite ready to catch on. The thought of having a completely wireless desktop setup sure is sweet, however. Wireless peripherals are already popular but having wireless speakers and monitors would just be so convenient. We'll see how this new Skylake architecture takes off when it is in widespread use next year.
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According to a recent report from IDC, <a href="https://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/servers">server</a> sales are on the up and up, which is great news due to the extremely slow sales figures that have plagued the market recently. In addition to that, IDC also claims that server sales are likely to stay on the increase well into 2015 and beyond.<br />
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Growth last quarter was minimal with worldwide server revenue increasing only 2.5% from the previous year. The news of an increase in sales will be welcome news to server makers as they have faced five consecutive quarters of server sales decline. In addition to that, server markers are also benefiting from the start of a cyclical refresh cycle. According to IDC, customers are now starting to replace systems that they employed soon after the financial crisis.<br />
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However, there are other factors at work as well, says IDC Analyst Kuba Stolarski. According to Stolarski, sales of x86 servers have been strong for quite a while and have been increased by companies like Google and Facebook that are building out their massive infrastructures. On the higher end of the market, sales of Unix and mainframe systems, which are traditionally more expensive, have been in decline which has also slowed down the overall market. The good news here is that these products make up a small enough part of the market that x86 gains are able to make a positive influence.<br />
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Moreover, sales of anew midrange server system, converged infrastructure products sold by companies like Cisco and VCE, have been increasing and contributing to overall growth. This has also allowed the server market to show some growth in the April-June quarter. Factory revenue across the globe also reached $12.6 billion, an increase from $12.3 billion last quarter. In addition to that, two upcoming developments also mean growth should continue and accelerate, according to IDC.<br />
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One of these developments is the release of servers based on Intel's Grantley Xeon server platform. These servers are expected to debut at Intel's developer conference in San Francisco next month. In most cases, a new chip typically spurs a new wave of server purchases. Still a long ways out of development, Microsoft is planning on ending support next year for its Windows Server 2003 OS. This product is very widely used so the discontinuation of it should prompt more people to upgrade.<br />
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Stolarski warns, however, that anybody expecting Microsoft's server business to experience the same thing its operating system business did with Windows XP shouldn't get their hopes up. This transition, Stolarski says, will be slower and some customers will most likely keep their existing hardware and simply upgrade their operating system.<br />
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The server market overall saw HP leading the pack once again with 25.4% of revenue, a slight increase over last year. Cisco had the biggest increase overall, expanding its revenue 35.4%. The company still has a small share overall at only 4.4%, though IDC notes that it took joint fourth place in the market with Oracle, who also saw a slight increase in sales. IBM was on the opposite side of the spectrum. The company is in the process of selling its x86 server business to Lenovo and also saw its sales drop 10%. Dell, which recently became a private company, also saw a decrease in sales of 6.5%.<br />
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Even though some companies experienced decline, the server market as a whole is looking up. With things reaching the end of their life users will be looking, if not forced, to upgrade to new systems. Servers based on Intel's Grantley Xeon server platform should be a great stepping stone in spurring a nice refresh for the server industry as a whole.
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Two weeks ago Intel began shipping Xeon E5 chips that were based on the Haswell microarchitecture to server makers with the chip planned to be in servers by this quarter. The Xeon E5 chips usually go into two-socket and four-socket servers and are the biggest-selling server products for Intel. The new chips, dubbed Grantley, are succeeding the former Romley chips based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture.<br />
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Lenovo has already announced plans to launch a brand new line of servers based on Grantley this quarter and server makers, including HP and Dell, have also started using Intel's server chips and could announce products in the near future. According to Intel CEO Brian Krzanich during an earnings call, "We think ... it's going to be a very powerful product."<br />
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The Grantley chips have actually already started shipping to cloud and high-performance computing customers that build their own computing gear according to Krzanich. Most of the chips developed ship out of the factory directly to server makers, who then test the chips, design servers and then make products commercially available.<br />
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The Xeon E5 chips account for nearly 75% of all of Intel's server chip shipments according to Dean McCarron, principal analyst for Mercury Research. The Romley chips are still out in the market, though Grantley will take over as customers begin to upgrade their servers. At the moment, the server business at Intel is booming, though Krzanich was aloof when asked about the expectations for the server chip.<br />
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According to Krzanich, the data-center volumes are "lumpy" and Xeon E5 order sizes could vary as companies look to upgrade data centers. "They tend to come in big pieces," Krzanich stated. However, the chip will continue to drive Intel's data-center business in the long term, at least as far as Krzanich is concerned.<br />
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The Grantley chip will have DDR4 memory controllers along with memory DIMMs that are expected to be available from Micron, Kingston and others this quarter. In addition to that, these chips will have more processing cores than the previous models. Grantley could see some competition from Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron 4000 and 6000 x86 server chips. Intel has nearly 95% of the market share, which is even higher in the Xeon E5 segment according to McCarron. "There's really not a lot of competition for that particular server product," he added.<br />
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AMD is literally betting the entire future of its server business Arm processors, which could very well emerge as competition to Intel's x86 server chips. Intel has also noted that it would be willing to customize chips with specific features though the majority of Grantley chips will not be custom McCarron added. Moreover, Intel also sells Xeon E3 chips for single-socket servers and E7 chips for servers with four or more sockets so I think it's pretty safe to say that Intel has a lockdown on this market for the time being.
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Nvidia was previously planning on developing a 64-bit CPU processor but, according to recent reports from the company, has decided to abandon that project for servers. To make matters worse, this announcement comes just three years after the company promised that it would build such a chip. According to Vice President of Accelerated Computing at Nvidia Ian Buck, "That's not something we're doing today." Instead the company is focusing its latest 64-bit Tegra chips on mobile and embedded devices, according to Buck.<br />
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Back in 2011, Nvidia announced that it would be creating a 64-bit ARM-based chip named Project Denver. The chip was slated to go into mobile devices, PCs and servers. Nvidia stated that it was looking to pair Tegra chips with GPUs in servers, though those plans have yet to come to fruition. The company's latest Tegra K1 chip, which includes a 64-bit CPU and is slated to ship later this year, was created for smartphones, tablets, cars and other products.<br />
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Nvidia has previously stated that the mobile K1 chips could very well make their way into microservers, though the company will not be developing a specialized server CPU. Moreover, Nvidia's departure from this field only leaves four ARM server chip makers left: Advanced Micro Devices, AppliedMicro, Broadcom and Cavium. Nvidia has always been known for its graphics cards but has instead shifted focus to building Tesla high-performance GPUs for ARM servers. "We should continue to focus on building great GPUs for them," Buck added.<br />
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The interest in ARM servers has rapidly been growing for web hosting and cloud computing in addition to being a low-power alternative to the dominant x86 servers. However, there is also some doubt surrounding ARM servers, especially do to the fact that they are still being tested. In addition to that, the platform software has yet to fully mature and ARM server pioneer Calxeda shut down late last year due to a lack of funds. As a result, a lot of questions were raised about the viability of the products themselves.<br />
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AMD is betting its future in servers on ARM chips while AppliedMicro is taking a more cautious approach. According to the company, it's plan is to have its first few chips help the company gauge interest in ARM servers and then determine whether or not to continue based off of that data.<br />
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Only a small number of 32-bit ARM servers are currently available from vendors like Boston Ltd. and Mitac. The first 64-bit ARM servers from Cirrascale and E4 Engineering are slated to ship sometime this year with servers running AppliedMicro's 64-bit processors and Nvidia's Tesla graphics cards. At this time, none of the companies have offered pricing details.<br />
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Servers that are running Nvidia's Tegra chips have been developed in the past with supercomputers at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain being based off Tegra 2 and 3 to test the energy efficiency of ARM chips. However, that project was replaced by a supercomputer running ARM-based Exynos smartphone chips developed by smartphones.<br />
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It is still unclear as to how Nvidia dropping its Denver chip project will ultimately affect the business, especially considering the fact that Nvidia went back on a three-year promise by doing so. Server business is doing fairly well right now so Nvidia is probably banking on that to come through for them.
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When you're dealing with businesses and corporations, it's best to have servers that have really good server administrators. You have to think that all of that data needs to be taken care some how right? Data at times can seem like a very fickle thing, but at the end of the day, all of the data that gets collected from a particular business for the purpose of analysis has to be stored on something secure, i.e. the company's servers. As with most large corporations however, the servers are like their virtual safes, and the people accessing those safes are constantly monitored for the safety of the company. Every log on the company's server is collected for safety and analytical purposes. Since, again, most companies tend to use virtual servers, it can be hard for the server administrators to just pop in and poke around. Thankfully there's been a bit of a remedy to this situation.<br />
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VMware released something that helped with virtual visualization in June of 2013. Many a server administrator was thankful for the help in seeing all of the logs for a company. Now, the software will be updated to a much faster version of itself.<br />
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The VMware's Log Insight 2.0 will be upwards of 30 percent faster than the 1.0 version. Of course, that doesn't really mean anything if you aren't sure what I'm talking about. This new version of the Log Insight will be able to take in and analyze log data at a much, much faster rate than before. When you have a large company with a plethora of logs to sort through, the added 30 percent speed increase is going to help immensely. The speed boost isn't all that comes with this update either. The new update also comes with some new technologies that are being used to help making grouping specific issues together less difficult and at a faster pace. <br />
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When we receive data, its not always the easiest to take in. It can be confusing, and should the date be corrupt, then you have a whole other monster on your hands to deal with. The Log Insight 2.0 is going to help by putting all of that data in an easy to understand format with the use of updated tables and charts.<br />
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Now not only will the Log Insight 2.0 come with all of that, but Windows servers won't be left out anymore either. There is a Windows agent included with the new update that will make it less difficult to gather up log and file info from Windows servers. The agent itself is but a mere .msi file, so that should be comforting to hear for all of you server workers out there. Adding Windows to the new update will definitely help the company in the long run as well. Before, customers would have to go through a third party program in order to view their Windows logs. Now, the update cuts out the middleman entirely and allows for full log visibility support that both VMware and Microsoft can be happy about and push.<br />
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Data is just as valuable to company's as it is to company's customers. All of that data can be hard to sift through, and administrators can only do so much with virtual servers. This update is definitely a welcome help, and hopefully there will be more to come.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274578954195612960.post-67676189176391974612014-05-06T18:19:00.001-04:002014-05-07T10:53:15.486-04:00HP's Partnership With Foxconn Will Be Granting Us With Cloud Servers!<div id="xcpost" style="padding-bottom: 5px;">
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There's something to be said about businesses that join forces. It's almost like watching two super heroes join forces and become even more powerful. In that same way, this is exactly what it's like when two large firms join together to benefit both companies and provide products and services that both wouldn't be able to offer by themselves. Two such companies have come together to offer it's customers something that all 3 parties can benefit from. Everyone knows HP as a very well rounded computer and tech company. They've clearly made a name for themselves as they've been around for quite some time. Then you have <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Foxconn</a>. The company that has been around for 40 years and has manufactured basically all of the electronics that we know and love. These two companies joining forces to provide us with cloud based servers is quite the big deal.<br />
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So what is the exact plan for these two super companies? As it stands right now, this partnership plans to provide new servers that have improved support and service, as well as being cheaper to own over all. These new servers are also being designed with cloud based functions and storage in mind. Should you already be using a pre-existing HP server already, know that these servers will also work in tandem with the your old servers. They will actually complement every server in the HP line currently. And yes, that even means the Moonshot servers as well.<br />
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Some of us may not know what cloud servers are exactly. Naturally, when you think of a server, you think of that big thing that makes noise and has a bunch of green lights in the company's basement. They are normally pretty large. Cloud servers are a bit different than these however. While most, if not every server you've come in contact with, is made up of hardware and software, cloud servers are just software. They are sometimes referred to as Virtual Dedicated Servers. While some VDS's can be linked up to a single hardware unit, this also puts them at risk of failure should the hardware malfunction in some way. A cloud server is different from this and benefits, since it's just running and operating based solely off of its software. It doesn't need to be tethered to server hardware in order for it to operate. Naturally, you can see where all of the benefits of having this could come into play.<br />
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President and CEO of HP, one Meg Whitman, understands that businesses and customers are rapidly moving towards the future. It's safe to say that we could see cloud based everything in the future. Cloud servers is just the next natural step. Many of these customers and businesses are adapting to these different styles of IT support and services. They need something that can work at high-volume work loads, and the normal servers these days may not be up to the task.<br />
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Since Foxconn already manufactures just about everything tech related that we use today, it would only make sense for them to work with HP to develop these new servers. Their reputation precedes them, and there is money to be made for both companies at this point. <br />
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There has not been any pricing or product details released as of yet, but as time moves on, more information will be released.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274578954195612960.post-50208429007759294792014-04-09T18:59:00.003-04:002014-04-10T11:33:04.461-04:00Lenovo Calms Server Team After Rivals Question IBM Deal<div id="xcpost" style="padding-bottom: 5px;">
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There is a lot of uncertainty over Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's server business, so much so that other companies are taking shots at IBM, trying to cause confusion and anxiety among employees and investors. However, Lenovo is taking measures against such things and even released a memo to its server sales team, urging them to ignore any "uncertainty and doubt" that rival companies are trying to sow over the decision.<br />
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According to the memo, "As the old saying goes, those who live in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones." The memo doesn't single out any company in particular, though Lenovo is probably referring to HP CEO Meg Whitman. Whitman had stated on two separate occasions that she hopes to take advantage of uncertainty surrounding not only Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's server business but also of Dell making itself private.<br />
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According to a statement by Whitman at a financial conference, "I have to say, we look like the paragon of stability in the industry right now and we aim to capitalize on that." Lenovo announced way back in January that it was buying IBM's x86 server business for a cool $2.3 billion. Upon completion of the acquisition, Lenovo stated that it had hoped to recreate the success it had integrating IBM's PC division. Lenovo bought IBM's failing PC business back in 2005 and has subsequently become the world's largest PC maker.<br />
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According to Lenovo's internal memo, it is the other server makers that are unstable. According to Executive Vice President of the Lenovo Enterprise Business Group Gerry Smith, "Our competitors in the enterprise space are both in the midst of major corporate transitions. As their customers try to avoid the real uncertainty and doubt created by those upheavals, you should feel very confident in representing Lenovo and the great products and services we offer."<br />
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Lenovo went on to say that it plans on keeping IBM's x86 server business intact and continue offering customers the same products, service and support. "Most important, we are committed to IBM's product roadmap, and will extend support end-of-life for any current product offerings. We bought this business with the promise of continuity to customers, both ours and IBM's," Smith wrote in the memo.<br />
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Lenovo's current product line consists primarily of one and two socket servers purchased by SMBs (small to medium sized businesses). Lenovo was the world's 9th largest server vendor in Q3 of last year. In that time the company shipped 57,929 units, which is a poor stat compared to HP's 669,000 units. With this acquisition, Lenovo enters into the proverbial big leagues of the serer market. IBM is the second largest server vendor in the world, only slightly behind HP.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274578954195612960.post-69224267218443165642014-02-12T00:42:00.001-05:002014-02-12T09:56:01.849-05:00Using An HP X86 ProLiant Server? Say Goodbye To Your Free Firmware Updates<div id="xcpost" style="padding-bottom: 5px;">
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Free is a short word with a big meaning. When it comes to financials, if something is free, it usually means there is a catch that comes with it. Even so, free is still free. When having that something free taken from you though, it can leave a bad taste in your mouth regarding who took it. In this instance it just happens to involve the HP X86 ProLiant Server and the people who use it. For the customers who have used this company and its servers before, they should be familiar with the free firmware updates that came with their products. Well time begets change as we all know, and there will be a change to the firmware update access as the time of "free" has apparently passed with HP.<br />
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Again, when we think of free, the next immediate thought is, "What's the catch". Well HP has their catch for those of you who want to get your firmware updates back. Unless your ProLiant Server is covered under a warranty plan, a support agreement, or the company's Care Service Pack, you can kiss your firmware updates goodbye. The vice president for the support technology services division of HP, Mary McCoy aims for this directive to further help maintain priority for the customers "who have chosen to maximize" their protection for their IT investments. McCoy goes on to acknowledge the fact that this is not how the company used to run its business, but continues to reassure that it is the "right choice" for the company's customers and business partners.<br />
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Decisions like these do not come without questions, retaliation, and a bit of resentment. And as is to be expected, many customers have had a few things to say in response to this change. One, Lindsay Hill, claimed that the firmware updates would come with "multiple rounds of reboots" in order to obtain all of the updates completely and effectively. Hill then went on to say that there was no "business value" in "fixing bugs that shouldn't have been shipped". Needless to say that this decision has not been met with a warm reception.<br />
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Hill also made an effort to point out the arduous task of constantly checking to make sure that the warranties of each individual server system was up to date, along with checking to see if HP's support lists are actually completely accurate. Hill, like many others, fail to see where the possible "business value" of taking this free firmware update system away from those without warranty could come from. McCoy, however, has confirmed that the customers who have their servers currently under warranty will not be charged for their firmware updates. She has also acknowledged the idea that some think that this is a way to push their customers to purchase warranty packages for their services. She has stated that "that is, and always will be, a customers choice".<br />
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HP's decision to take away the free firmware update service may not have been the best one, as now many of the customers could choose to get their servers from other vendors. The fact that you must purchase a warranty to ensure that the product that you have already spent money can work seems like quite the slap in the face to loyal customers. HP may have to rethink their decision on this. Time begets change, and only time will tell.<br />
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<a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/hp-ending-free-firmware-updates-for-x86-proliant-servers.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source 1</a>.<br />
<a href="http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Technical-Support-Services-Blog/Customers-for-life/ba-p/154423#.UvsJCfb0hQb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source 2</a>.<br />
<a href="http://lkhill.com/hp-restricting-access-to-server-firmware-updates/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source 3</a>.
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Alright, so you and your company are just starting out, and you are currently using a server that is sharing hosting with other companies. Not a bad start, especially if you are just now coming up and starting to generate revenue and business. You might not be expecting to have a lot of heavy traffic since you are just starting out, and there is nothing wrong with that. Every company starts somewhere. But with that being said, owning or renting your own server for dedicated hosting might prove to be beneficial to you and your company instead of sharing with other companies.<br />
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First and foremost, is <b>Safe Storage</b><br />
Servers are not to be taken lightly, no pun intended. These machines are very large and bulky and can take up very large amounts of space that many companies that are starting out may not have. These machines are also very delicate. They are susceptible to<b> </b>extreme environmental changes. Moisture from condensation can fry a server. Extreme high or low temperatures can also directly affect the performance of them. By taking the chance and keeping the server in your office while not being aware of the conditions, you are potentially putting all of your back files, and web services at risk. By going with a dedicated server, you are able to relax knowing that the people you bought or rented the server from are keeping it in a temperature controlled environment.<br />
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Secondly, we have <b>Reliability</b><br />
It is never a bad thing, necessarily, to go with a shared server hosting service, but when you go for a dedicated server, you keep all of the resources. When on a shared server, the resources and power from the server are distributed and shared for all those who are using the server. If, for example, you are on a shared hosting server and another company is larger than yours and has a more intricate web design or more traffic than yours, your website and traffic will suffer due to slower speeds. By switching to a dedicated server through renting or buying, you are able to control all the resources from the server, keep all of the space, and all of the speed for your company.<br />
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And last but not least, there is the <b>Advanced Technical Support</b><br />
It is no simple task to operate these machines, and sometimes that is where we need help. When choosing a dedicated server instead of a shared server, you are giving yourself access to a great tool; the tech support of the people hosting the server. These people will be here to help you with troubleshooting and keeping your website up and running. Those hosting the server are trained in how to run, fix, and troubleshoot these servers. When you have an issue, the company you bought or rented from will be able to help you and give extra attention to the problems you may be having. You may not get that with a shared hosting server.<br />
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Getting your company's new website up and running can be exciting. Through that excitement though, make sure to analyze and predict the amount of traffic you may be getting. If you know for a fact that you won't be getting that much due to the early age of the company, go with the shared hosting. However, if you are for sure that your site will need extra care and attention due to the predicted heavy traffic, dedicated servers are the way to go. Remember, sharing may be caring, but don't let your site suffer from it!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274578954195612960.post-69813983169297217622013-11-19T22:41:00.000-05:002013-11-19T22:42:12.695-05:00openSUSE 13.1 Linux Offers Better Open Source Quality<div id="xcpost" style="padding-bottom: 5px;">
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The <a href="http://www.opensuse.org/en/">openSUSE</a> 13.1 Linux distribution is available now, providing it's users with improved performance and brand new features.<p><p>
The new release follows the openSUSE 12.3 release by about 8 months, which appears to be right on schedule. The new release of openSUSE 13.1 stands in contrast to the openSUSE 12.2 release that came out in September 2012, which ended up being delayed by two months.<p><p>
The on time release of the new openSUSE 13.1 is a result of the improvements in the development process that came from the openQA effort. It performs automated testing for openSUSE builds.<p><p>
Agustin Bethencourt, the openSUSE team leader at SUSE, said that the improvements done in openQA worked much better than expected.<p><p>
"We detected bugs earlier and our reports were more accurate thanks to the tool," Bethencourt said. "These improvements provided developers more time and better information to fix the problems"<p><p>
Bethencourt also added that a amount of bugs that were reported and fixed are higher in 13.1 than in the releases before. The openQA effort aslo allowed the project to increase its efforts in other areas like real hardware testing, documentation and translations, and because of this, openSUSE is now more efficient than it ever was before.<p><p>
"13.1 is the best release in a long time because, among other things, there has been no significant surprises during its development, integration and stabilization phases," Bethencourt said.<p><p>
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At the core of the openSUSE 13.1 distribution is the Linux 3.11 kernel that first came ou in September of this year. The new kernel has the key focus on the ARM server architecture, which is seen in the openSUSE 13.1 release.<p><p>
"openSUSE on ARM is not yet as mature as on x86/x64, though we are making good and steady progress," Bethencourt said. "We are working to bring those improvements and new ones to openSUSE 13.1 and will announce them when they become fully available."<p><p>
The Btrfs filesystem benefits as well from the new performance and stability. Bethencourt said that Btrfs is already available for SUSE Linux Enterprise, so it is ready for production use-cases. SUSE has recently announced that it was raising the support length for its SUSE Linux Enterprise release from 7 years to ten years.<p><p>
"What we have done in openSUSE 13.1 is include new Btrfs features," Bethencourt said. " Some of them are ready for production environments and some still need more stabilization effort; this is why Btrfs is not the default file system in openSUSE 13.1."
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Moving forward a bit, Bethencourt also explained that in the tech area, the next big topic will come in December when the openSUSE community will talk about the introduction of significant changed in Factory to improve on the current development process.<p><p>
"The goal will be to evolve Factory into a bleeding-edge rolling development process that is, at the same time, usable by a wider range of developers," he said.
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Asetek is planning on showcasing its patented ISAC, or Inside Server Air Conditioning, reference design at the upcoming SC12 Supercomputing Convention. ISAC completely eliminates the need for CRAC, or Computer Room Air Conditioning, in a data center. All the air inside the server stays inside the server and recirculates as opposed to exiting and heating up the data center. In addition to that, each CPU is liquid cooled with Asetek's proprietary liquid cooling while a liquid-to-air heat exchanger inside the server cools the internal server air. Each component inside the server also sees the same temperature and air-flow as it would in a standard data center install.<br />
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According to Vice President of Engineering for Asetek Ole Madsen, "While this may sound complicated on the surface, this is brilliantly simple. The demonstration server we are showing here is a 100% standard Intel H2216JFJR 2U 4 node server and besides installing our liquid cooling system, we have not changed a screw, this is just engineering at its best."<br />
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The ISAC server will integrate with Asetek's RackCDU, which will provide substantial cost savings in data center infrastructure. Due to the fact that 100% of all the server's heat is being transferred into water, users can expect to experience savings of at least 60% on their cooling power bill with immediate payback often occurring. In addition to that, because the hot water generated can be reused for a facility's heating or cooling, data center operators can now achieve EREs of <1.<br />
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The ISAC, in addition to saving data center power, also has a strong value proposition where dust and other environmental factors are a challenge. Areas like military operations, field operations, container data centers and even Formula 1 paddock data centers can benefit from this type of sealed design.<br />
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Andre Eriksen, Chief Executive Officer of Asetek, added, "Up until now, if you wanted to remove 100% server heat by liquid, you would have to invest in very expensive and proprietary technologies with large cold plates covering the entire motherboard, memory modules, etc. ISAC has the potential to revolutionize the data center cooling market. Instead of cooling an entire building, you are now only cooling the tiny volume within each server and the associated benefits are obvious."<br />
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Source: <i>Xbit Laboratories - Asetek Introduces Inside Server Air Conditioning Cooling Solution for Servers</i>
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Some of the top names in the computer industry, including Dell, HP and SeaMicro (which is owned by Advanced Micro Devices), are looking into developing low-power servers for data centers. Recent reports have indicated that extremely low-energy servers will take up 2.4% of the market for servers that run on Intel chips by the year 2015.<br />
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The key thing that these companies are looking into is energy costs due to the power needed to cool large server farms. Some of the newer data centers that have been built recently pack in tens of thousands of computer servers that generate internet content and cloud services.<br />
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According to Kiyomi Yamada, an analyst for Gartner, "Currently, the extremely low-energy server market consists of small providers, such as SeaMicro, now under AMD, and Super Micro. Some major OEMs including HP and Dell have announced that they would enter the market, as well as smaller vendors like Boston Limited."<br />
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AMD was a rather surprising addition to the market when it acquired SeaMicro back in February for $334 million. According to a recent report from Gartner, the worldwide server market reached $52.8 billion in 2011. Profit margins, however, were thin, causing vendors to look into branching out to emerging categories like extremely low-energy machines.<br />
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Source: <i>Investors.com - HP, Dell, AMD Target Low-Energy Servers, A Hot Market</i>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274578954195612960.post-27525377719987460302012-09-21T22:20:00.000-04:002012-09-25T08:46:42.067-04:00Dell Debuts New PowerEdge C8000 Series Servers<div id="xcpost" style="padding-bottom: 5px;">
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According to recent reports, Dell has unveiled some new servers based on designs that the company will soon be putting into effect in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer known as Stampede. The servers being implemented, which are PowerEdge C8000 servers, use Intel x86 CPUs and offer the flexibility to include graphics processors or even more storage, allowing you to improve performance on database, high-performance computing or cloud computing.<br />
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Users will have the ability to experiment with graphics processors, storage, memory and other elements inside servers depending on their computing needs. A lot of inspiration for these servers came from the Stampede supercomputer itself, which is still in development.<br />
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The servers will be using Intel's Xeon eight-core E5-2600 processors and coprocessors, nicknamed Knights Corner, which are expected to increase the speed of scientific and mathematical calculations. The Stampede supercomputer is a compilation of thousands of C8000-series servers that has a total of 272TB of memory along with 14 petabytes of storage.<br />
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The chassis for the PowerEdge C8000 can have up to eight blade servers with each server having between two CPUs with 16 processing cores, two internal hard drives or other storage and networking options. The servers themselves are targeted towards hosting services, Web serving and other cloud applications, according to Dell's Product Manager Armando Acosta. There are two other versions of the server, the C8220X and the C8220. The C8220X is more advanced and allows for more RAM and storage, as well as an option to add graphics processors.<br />
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In addition to that, the servers can be hooked up to the new C8000XD storage box for expandable hard drive or SSD storage. The servers are also designed for deployment in highly parallel computing environments with their ability to fit graphics processors providing the capability to offer higher performance-per-watt and the internal hard drives offering more storage capacity. What's more is that the expandable storage box provides more long-term storage and caching for databases.<br />
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According to Dell, the new PowerEdge C8220 will have a starting price of $35,000 with eight blade servers in the chassis. The C8220X will start at $42,000 and the C8000XD somewhere between $25,000 and $27,000.<br />
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Source: <i>Equities.com - Dell showcases new servers from supercomputer</i>
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Battle.net, the huge game servers that house all the player information for Blizzard Entertainment's three major games (World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo), has officially been hacked the company has just confirmed. According to an update posted on Blizzard's official website from President Mike Morhaime, financial information, including real names, billing addresses and credit card numbers, seem to be safe, though a list of email addresses, personal security questions and "information relating to Mobile and Dial-In Authenticators" has been accessed. In addition to that, a list of cryptographically scrambled Battle.net passwords were also accessed.<br />
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Morhaime and Blizzard were quick to state that the information was not enough for any hacker to gain access to a user's Battle.net accounts, though users should still take precautions. This hack affects users outside of China and Morhaime is also recommending that anyone using North American servers change their passwords. This typically includes users in North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.<br />
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In the days following this announcement, North American server Battle.net users will be asked to change their secret question while Blizzard will also be issuing an update to its authenticator software, which is something that most players should already use. World of Warcraft accounts get hacked regularly with hackers trying to steal in-game currency and high-level items.<br />
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According to a statement from Blizzard, "We take the security of your personal information very seriously, and we are truly sorry that this has happened. Like all companies doing business online, it is not an uncommon occurrence to experience outside parties trying to illegitimately gain access to the operation's structure at some level."<br />
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If you play World of Warcraft, StarCraft II or Diablo III then I highly recommend changing your Battle.net information, mainly just your password and security question. With the amount of money that goes through these games from players, a hacked Battle.net server is something nobody wants to see.<br />
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Source: <i>UPI.com - Blizzard reports hack of its game server</i><br />
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Toshiba announced on Tuesday that it has started developing a line of products designed for storing large amounts of data and that these new products would be based on the company's flash memory chips. Toshiba is working on a three-tier strategy that it hopes will spur in-house demand for NAND flash memory.<br />
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Toshiba will offer memory chips for use in storage hardware, data servers that combine hard disks, solid-state drives and flash and software services for analyzing and handling large amounts of data. According to Senior Engineer at Toshiba Masaki Momodomi, "Up until now we've sold mostly to outside companies, but we want to strengthen our own offerings."<br />
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NAND flash makers like Toshiba are in a constant race to out-do each other and create chips with finer circuits, ultimately offering cheaper storage and better efficiency. However, they are closing in on the physical limits possible with our current technology. Toshiba has, until recently, focused on out-shrinking rival companies and was the first to launch solid-state drives with 19-nanometer memory.<br />
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Momodomi also added that Toshiba will offer chips smaller than 19-nanometers, but will remain in the teens over the next two years. In addition to that, Toshiba stated that it is working on 3D storage, which could be a possible successor to the current NAND flash technology that stacks memory in layers, allowing for greater density. Toshiba also says that it will have prototype samples ready by 2013.<br />
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Toshiba announced this new effort as part of the company's new research and development strategy. Toshiba showed several upcoming products at its central headquarters in Tokyo, including quantum encryption and home lighting based on organic light-emitting diodes. Toshiba also announced that its strategy going forward is also focused on adding headcount outside of Japan.<br />
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70% of the company's new research personnel through the fiscal year ending in March 2015 will be hired outside of Japan and the bulk of the new hires will come from China, India and Vietnam, countries where projects will focus on technologies and products meant for the countries where they are developed. According to Akira Sudo, a Research and Development Executive for Toshiba, "We have to keep a firm grasp on the global trends."<br />
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Source: <i>Computer World - Toshiba to develop data center products based on its flash memory chips</i>
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If you ever need a complete network solution at a moment's notice then you don't have a lot of options. Buying one is way too expensive, especially if you only need it temporarily, which is why most business professionals turn to <a href="http://www.rentacomputer.com/rentals/office-equipment/networks" target="_blank">renting a network solution</a> instead. Rentacomputer.com has been offering network solution rentals to the business world for over 25 years, accumulating tremendous industry experience along with an army of technicians, engineers, installers and Tech Travel Agents to help you get the complete network solution that you need, when you need it.<br />
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With every rental you choose from Rentacomputer.com you get to work alongside a Tech Travel Agent. Tech Travel Agents are personal consultants and your single point of contact for anything involving your rental. Your Tech Travel Agent will handle the procurement of every piece of equipment for your network solution rental. From every desktop and laptop to server and server peripherals, your Tech Travel Agent will make sure you have everything you need to fully connect you and your team to the internet and each other.<br />
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What's more is that your Tech Travel Agent can also acquire additional technology for you as well, including office equipment rentals like printers, copiers or fax machines. No matter what you need, when you need it and where you need it, your Tech Travel Agent will make it happen.<br />
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Did I mention that your network solution rental can also be delivered anywhere in the entire country? You can get every single piece of your equipment delivered directly to you no matter where you are. Need something delivered directly to a convention center or trade show booth? No problem. Once your equipment arrives by way of a local engineer, that professional will also set up and test everything for you, ensuring that everything is working like it needs to.<br />
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Renting a full network solution from <a href="http://www.rentacomputer.com/" target="_blank">Rentacomputer.com</a> is one of the smartest and easiest things you can do if you need an entire network solution quickly. Not only do you get access to the latest technology on the market but you also get access to professional engineers and technicians that are there to offer their expertise whenever you need it. With over 25 years of experience in the industry, nothing beats a network solution rental from Rentacomputer.com.
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