Server

In what seems to be the “silicon cycle,” TSMC announced that it’s now using AMD-powered servers to manage and control the machines responsible for manufacturing processors for AMD and the rest of its clientele. Until recently, Intel Xeon processors have been known for being the go-to-choice for mission-critical workloads, but …

Synology has announced its newest 8-bay rackmounted storage servers, which it claims ‘deliver high performance in a space-efficient manner.’ Today we have not one, but two new servers from Synology – the RS1221+ and the RS1221RP+, the latter of which has power redundancy support thanks to its two PSUs. Designed …

AMD has expanded the ecosystem of EPYC based cloud and virtualised solutions with the addition of the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX, powered by EPYC processors and Nutanix’s Hybrid cloud infrastructure solution.  With more companies starting to move to HCI solutions to “modernise and transform their enterprise data centre”, performance, ease of management …

Today, Google and AMD announced a new partnership, delivering beta availability of Confidential Virtual Machines for the Google Compute Engine platform. This platform is powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors, taking advantage of the CPU’s advanced security features.  Confidential VMs is the first product of Google Confidential Computing portfolio. …

Supermicro has launched a new X12 generation 4-socket SuperServer designed to accommodate the new 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors. The new SuperServer is capable of supporting “four 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, up to 18TB of System Memory Capacity, 24 Hot-swap NVM-e drives, and Enhanced Security”. Last week, Intel …

Following the announcement of Copper Lake 3rd generation Xeon Scalable processors by Intel just a few days ago, Gigabyte has now unveiled a new range of serves featuring the Xeon Scalable CPUs. Gigabyte’s R292 server series is equipped with four of the new Xeon’s. The R292 series comprises of two …

EK Water Blocks has expanded its professional range this week with a host of new workstation/server-grade water blocks for powerful workstation graphics cards from both Nvidia and AMD, including Quadro, Tesla and Radeon Pro WX GPUs. The company claims that this is just the beginning of its push into the …

Xilinx has unveiled new “purpose-built video transcoding appliances” based on a new “Xilinx Real-Time Server reference architecture”. The device is designed to deliver good video quality at lower cost and high channel density per rack.  Just a year ago, few could have predicted the massive upswing in video conferencing that …

AMD is expanding its arsenal of EPYC powered data centre systems with a new venture in partnership with Oracle that equips the company’s latest Cloud Infrastructure Compute E3 platform with 2nd generation EPYC processors, to bring a new level of performance to Oracle Cloud. The Oracle Cloud “E3 Standard” leverages …

How good is this drive from Kingston, aimed at the server market?

Memblaze has announced its new PBlaze5 920 series of NVMe SSDs for enterprise systems. Adopting 96-layer 3D eTLC NAND, the PBlaze5 920 series is available in both 2.5-inch U.2 and HHHL add-in card form factors with maximum capacity of up to 7.68 TB. There are a total of four SKUs …

Intel is focusing its 3rd generation of AI on neuromorphic computing, which is the idea of emulating the neural structure and operation of the human brain. The key challenge Intel faces with neuromorphic computing is matching a human’s flexibility, and ability to learn with the energy efficiency of the human …

Western Digital has announced a new line of NVMe SSDs for enterprise systems, the WD Gold series offers small and medium-size enterprises a range of products for a simple transition to NVMe storage and improved system performance. The new series of Western Digital enterprise SSDs are the company’s first to …

Kingston has announced the availability of a new DC1000M SSD series of enterprise-grade SSDs for data centre deployments. The DC1000M series is designed for data-intensive workloads such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence and deep learning applications. The new DC1000M U.2 NVMe PCIe SSD series joins the Kingston range of enterprise-class …

Kioxia has announced that its CM6 and CD6 series of PCIe 4.0 NVMe drives for enterprise customers are now being shipped, this means that Kioxia is the first company to ship these next-generation PCIe 4.0 SSDs to enterprise and data centre partners. Both the CM6 and CD6 SSDs are compliant …

EK Water Blocks has a great reputation for producing some top-quality consumer-grade PC water cooling products. The company has now announced a brand-new line of water cooling gear aimed at professional use. The new professional range of products feature a robust design, making them ideal for industrial use in applications …

QNAP has announced today that it is releasing a new 2-bay NAS device that is powered by an Intel dual-core processor. The TS-251D NAS can be used with the QuMagie, the smart AI photo management app from QNAP that uses AI recognition to group similar photos together in a relevant …

Gigabyte has announced a new partnership with cooling specialists Incooling to design a prototype model for a new class of two-phase liquid cooling solution...

Kingston Technology has announced a new range of NVMe SSDs for data centre solutions. The Data Centre DC1000B M.2 NVMe is optimised for server boot applications and equipped with power-loss protection (PLP). The new Data Centre DC1000B range from Kingston is a high-performance M.2 (2280) NVMe PCIe SSD utilising the …

Huawei has announced that its FusionServer Pro 2488H V5 rack server and KunLun 9008 V5 mission-critical servers have passed SAP HANA certification for BWoH/BW4H/DM and S4H scale-out appliance solutions. The range of SAP HANA certified solutions from Huawei accelerates real-time decision making and provides faster data monetization for enterprise customers. …

Western Digital has announced it is shipping new HDD samples to enterprise OEMs and hyperscale customers worldwide. The new devices are the industry’s highest capacity HDDs featuring up to a huge 20TB capacity in SMR form. First announced in September 2019, the new high-capacity HDDs from Western digital include the …

Gigabyte is updating its series of Intel Xeon compatible motherboards with new lines for single-socket Intel Xeon W-3200 and dual-socket Xeon scalable workstation and server motherboards added to its range. The company has announced two new motherboards engineered to build workstation and server systems in 2020. The MU71-SU0 is a …

Schneider Electric has collaborated with Avnet and Iceotope to announce the industry’s first commercially available integrated rack with chassis-based immersive liquid cooling, designed for compute-intensive applications. The joint solution was unveiled at the Schneider Electric booth during the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference in Las Vegas. The …

Fujitsu has announced a collaboration with AMD in its new Primergy LX1430 single-slot rack server designed specifically for Internet Service Provider data centres. The new Fujitsu rack server will feature 2nd generation AMD EPYC processors. The new single-slot rack server from Fujitsu is designed to meet the needs of scale-out …

HP has identified a bug with its enterprise SSDs that is causing devices to fail prematurely, the company has released a support bulletin outlining a firmware update to prevent drive failure at 32,768 hours. Enterprise SSD devices affected by the premature failure problem are from certain models of the HPE …

For the past few years, Gigabyte has been bolstering its reputation in the accelerated computing platform sector by building new systems featuring the highest GPU density in the market, combined with excellent cooling and power efficiency. Gigabyte is adding five new systems to its 2nd generation AMD EPYC powered server …

A year ago, Amazon added AWS EC2 instances powered by AMD EPYC processors. A few months later, Microsoft did the same to its Azure instances. Now, it’s expanding the array of instances to choose from with new v4 Azure D-series and E-series with AMD EPYC processors, and the latest NV-series …

Another day, another Cray. The HP supercomputer specialist subsidiary just signed another big contract on UK soil. Cray’s latest supercomputer will be handed to AWE, Atomic Weapons Establishment, a company contracted by the UK government responsible for providing and maintaining warheads. Only last month, Cray was chosen by the UK government …

While most of the attention from Gigabyte over recent months has been on new motherboards for the 3rd generation AMD Ryzen platform, the company has been quietly working on boards for the upcoming Intel Xeon server platform too. To coincide with the recent announcement from Intel regarding new Xeon E-2200 …

An area which Intel still has a vast share of the market is with server CPUs – the company has announced that the new Xeon E-2200 processors are available now for entry-level servers. Intel’s Xeon E-2200 is designed to deliver essential performance for businesses, with advanced security features for cloud-based …