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IBM brings Watson technologies to new Power servers for SMBs
IBM's Watson supercomputer outperformed humans in the televised game show "Jeopardy." Now the company is moving some of its underlying technologies from the supercomputer into new entry-level servers.
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Fedora, openSUSE ditch MySQL, in a major database shake-up
Two major open-source projects, Fedora and openSUSE, are planning to ditch the venerable Oracle MySQL database framework and adopt MariaDB instead.
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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em - Microsoft to offer Linux on Azure
After years of battling Linux as a competitive threat, Microsoft is now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud service.
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IBM pushes 'affordable' Linux servers for virtualisation and Big Data analysis
IBM has announced new "affordable" Linux servers as the company tries to push its new category of preconfigured servers for virtualisation and Big Data to midmarket and enterprise customers.
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Suse Enterprise Linux updated with new kernel, virtual Containers
Suse has updated its enterprise Linux distribution, using a recent version of the Linux kernel to support the advanced management capabilities in freshly released servers from HP and Dell.
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Dell PowerEdge servers upgrade to AMD 16-core Opteron chips
Dell has upgraded its PowerEdge servers with the recently-launched AMD 16-core Opteron processors.
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Suse working on private OpenStack cloud
Attachmate's Suse division has announced plans to offer software based on the OpenStack platform for enterprises to build private clouds.
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Microsoft Hyper-V now supports Linux CentOS
Microsoft has added support for another Linux server distribution with its Hyper-V virtualisation software, its latest move to compete better with virtualisation market leader VMware.
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Dell plans four CPU socket blade server designed for virtualised data centres
Dell on Monday announced a four-socket blade server with up to 48 processor cores for deployment in virtualized environments.
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Dell to launch PowerEdge microservers
Dell on Tuesday is set to announce low power PowerEdge servers that can quickly band together to execute transactions more efficiently than traditional servers, which use faster, but more power-hungry chips.
