Rack-mount servers are a great invention but, by their very nature, suffer from a lack of space. Even with the advent of 2.5in disks they’re still limited when it comes to internal storage - a problem ...

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Servers are most often found in climate controlled data centers. This means they aren’t exactly built for creature comforts like quiet operation. Quite the contrary — many server chassis include fans ...

Over the past three years, Facebook has saved $2 billion in infrastructure costs and enough energy to power almost 80,000 homes due to the work of the Open Compute Project and its own internal ...

Over at the AMD Blog, Scot Aylor writes that the company’s EPYC processors are coming to Cisco’s popular UCS server platform. The new, density-optimized Cisco UCS C4200 Series Rack Server Chassis and ...

Cisco expands its USC server line up to include AMD 7000-series EPYC processors. See also: What would Steve Jobs think of today's Apple? The new offerings come in the form of the Cisco UCS C4200 ...

Facebook has taken delivery of the first set of innovative server racks it helped design, technology that the company hopes other organizations with large data centers will adopt. The prototype racks ...

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We found that blade servers reduce but don’t eliminate redundant hardware components requiring electrical power, a pivotal consideration in total cost of ownership (TCO). That said, while IBM’s blade ...

Our benchmark validation and test lab is growing again, so naturally we're adding more rackmount systems to the triple 42U racks. For over a year, we've had an old Pentium 4 based 1U system running ...