• Virtual reality and non-conductive liquids: data centers get innovative

  By James Niccolai | 17 May, 2013 16:54

  Google I/O is getting most of the attention this week, but a conference at the other end of Silicon Valley showed there's plenty of innovation happening in the word of data centers, too.

• Cisco cites data-center, wireless for quarterly revenue increase

  By Stephen Lawson | 15 May, 2013 23:15

  Data-center and wireless sales led growth at Cisco Systems in its fiscal third quarter, as it saw customers spending more in the U.S. and developing countries but reported continuing weakness in Southern Europe.

• How to Evaluate High Availability Options for Virtualized IT Environments

  By John Moore | 29 April, 2013 13:56

  One upside to virtualization is that it puts more applications on fewer servers. One downside is that the availability of those servers become of greater importance.

• In Pictures: 10 of the biggest pieces of heavyweight hardware

  By Jon Gold | 23 April, 2013 08:20

  The outsized, the hefty and the completely ridiculous

• IBM-Lenovo deal likely to focus on low-end, commodity servers, analyst says

  By James Niccolai | 19 April, 2013 00:36

  Any deal by IBM to sell parts of its server business to Lenovo is likely to focus on low-end commodity x86 hardware, not higher-end x86 systems such as IBM's PureSystems and iDataPlex servers, an industry analyst said Thursday.

• What IBM's x86 exit may mean for rivals

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 19 April, 2013 18:32

  IBM's reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo may bring major changes to the global market.

• Samsung laying groundwork for server chips, analysts say

  By Agam Shah | 07 November, 2012 17:51

  Samsung's recent licensing of 64-bit processor designs from ARM suggests that the chip maker may expand from smartphones and tablets into the server market, analysts said this week.

• Closer look at Microsoft 'Aurora' Small Business Server

  By Tony Bradley | 14 December, 2010 06:53

  Microsoft has been paying more attention lately to the small business audience, as well as the cloud. With the "Aurora" Small Business Server (SBS)--officially named Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Microsoft delivers a solution that brings the two together--bridging local services and the cloud, and granting small businesses affordable access to big business tools.

• Inside Internode's data centre

  By Kathryn Edwards | 05 June, 2009 14:39

  Computerworld gets an exclusive behind the scenes look inside Internode's Adelaide data centre with network guru Mark Newton

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