Data Center And Enterprise Reviews And News
Data Centers for mission critical applications and cloud services require high-end, fault-tolerant hardware and software for servers, processors, storage, operating systems and more. Meanwhile, enterprise and small business road warriors alike need that same level of reliability on mobile devices and back at the office as well. If it connects people and systems, stores critical data or provides digital tools for business and professionals, you'll find our coverage here - from WiFi routers to Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, High Performance Computing (HPC) and more, this channel means business.
Patch Tuesday, is sometimes a love hate sort of thing. It's a safe bet that most Windows Home or Pro users hate having to reboot it every time there's a hangnail that needs fixing. Regardless, those days are coming to an end, thanks to upcoming availability of in-memory hot-patching, as long as you're running Windows Server, which is obviously
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HP Elite t660 Thin Client: Pricing TBA HP's Elite t660 offers solid performance, plenty of connectivity, and an array of accessories, blurring the lines between a traditional thin client and small form factor edge PC. Impressive Thin Client Performance Robust External Connectivity Passive Cooling Means Total...
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Following the launch of Blackwell-based GPUs in the consumer space for gaming, NVIDIA today expanded the reach of its latest-generation GPU architecture into various professional solutions for workstations, servers, and laptops, all of which fall under the RTX Pro Blackwell umbrella. In total, we’re looking at a dozen...
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China's DeepSeek made quite the splash late last month, both within the tech industry at large and by disrupting the US stock market, at least initially. In particular, DeepSeek's open-source R1 model made waves by challenging far more expensive AI solutions—the R1 model was reportedly built on a comparatively meager...
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AMD and Google's Security Team have disclosed a major microcode vulnerability affecting all AMD EPYC processors built on the Zen 1 through Zen 4 architectures. That means EPYC 7001 (Naples), 7002 (Rome), 7003 (Milan), and 8004/9004 (Genoa/Bergamo/Siena) series chips are all impacted. The vulnerability, assigned...
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At the Supercomputing 2024 conference currently underway in Atlanta, AMD, in collaboration with HPE and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), announced what has been officially declared as the world’s most powerful supercomputer, El Capitan. El Capitan is the first exascale-class machine for the National...
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Kioxia is launching another round of zippy solid state drives for the data center that leverage the PCI Express 5.0 bus, and namely the XD8 series. While you won't find these being offered for consumer desktops or laptops—the come in the Enterprise and Data Center Standard Form Factor (EDSFF)—they offer impressive...
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At this point, AMD EPYC is certainly a brand which needs no introduction. AMD's dense server processors, based on its Zen 5 and Zen 5c core architecture, build on AMD's consumer PC origins to offer many-core solutions with huge compute resources and capabilities that continue to outstrip what people might have...
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Intel Xeon 6 6900P Series Processors Intel is launching its most powerful Xeon processors yet with the Xeon 6 6900P Series, featuring up to 128 P-cores and a massive 504MB of L3 cache for HPC and AI data center applications. All High-Performance P-Cores Larger Performance Uplift Massive Memory Bandwidth Large...
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In case you haven't been paying attention, artificial intelligence (AI) is a red hot field, which extends into the lucrative data center. Up to this point, NVIDIA has dominated the category with strategic investments in GPU architectures and infrastructure. It's not alone, however, and AMD is making a bold bid to beef...
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Kioxia will be debuting its latest Solid State Drive prototype at the Future of Memory and Storage conference taking place this week in Santa Clara, California. These broadband SSDs are designed to make use of an optical interface, instead of the legacy copper wire data interfaces currently found on SSDs. The SSDs are...
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Tenstorrent's name might not have quite the same cache that NVIDIA's does when it comes to AI acceleration yet, but the company's unique approach has a lot of benefits. Between a royalty-free RISC-V processor ISA and highly scalable AI accelerator designs, the company promises it can lower the total cost of ownership...
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The artificial intelligence (AI) arms race is reaching a fever pitch, bolstered by AMD signing a definitive agreement to acquire Silo AI, Europe's biggest private AI lab, in an all-cash deal valued at around $665 million. That's not chump change and we could see more big-dollar investments like this as companies look to add to their AI arsenal,
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Market research firm Liftr Insights is claiming that it has spotted Amazon Web Services (AWS) running an instance with a staggering 896 cores, surpassing the company’s previous best of 384 cores. This current offering blows away anything else available from other cloud providers, with the closest competitor being...
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Intel Xeon 6 Series Processors Intel is launching the first wave of next-generation Xeon 6 6700E-series processors today, based on Sierra Forest, featuring up to 144 E-cores per socket. Many More Cores Per Socket Power Efficiency Improvements Big Performance Gains Over 5th Gen New, Updated IO Tile Increased Bandwidth...
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AMD disclosed a plethora of details during the Computex 2024 opening keynote regarding upcoming desktop and mobile processors in the Ryzen 9000 and Ryzen AI 300 families, respectively, along with a new dual-slot Radeon Pro W7900WS to facilitate multi-GPU configurations in professional workstations. In addition to...
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It's hard to remember now, but the original AMD Ryzen processors topped out at "just" 8 cores. The Ryzen 3000 family came along in 2019 with the Ryzen 9 branding and the first sixteen-core desktop CPUs. Even in the enterprise market, 16 CPU cores can be overkill. However, you can't just go buying consumer PC hardware...
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Some people have claimed that AI is a fad, or a flash in the pan. It's easy to understand the perspective; the hype around the explosion of generative AI feels similar to the hype around previous fads, like 3D TVs or the metaverse. AI isn't a fad, though. It is already transforming every single part of the tech...
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Most forms of malware can only make the attacker money in a roundabout way. For example, selling stolen data or bundling infected systems into a rentable botnet. Ransomware is different, however, in that it can be a moneymaker all on its own, and that's why infections have increased every year. IBM has debuted a new...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken off in the last few years. Buoyed by massive increases in computational power, the latest large language models (LLMs) can behave in remarkably lifelike ways, but their inner workings are not always clear. What if those inner workings turn on us? That's certainly a worry, based...
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Microsoft has just set new performance targets for PCs to be considered AI-ready. The trillion-dollar software, services and devices company has specified 40 TOPS (Trillions Of Operations Per Second) in AI computational throughput and 16GB of memory at a minimum, for a system to potentially have all AI features...
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Intel 5th Generation Xeon Processors Codename: Emerald Rapids Intel refreshes its tiled chiplet based Xeon processors with more cores, more cache, higher frequencies, and enhanced power efficiency. Higher Core Counts Improved Performance & Efficiency Drop-In Compatible With 4th Gen Faster Memory Support...
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