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• Oracle-HP trial will trace an ill-fated partnership

  By Stephen Lawson | 01 June, 2012 20:57

  After Oracle and Hewlett-Packard enjoyed a long and fruitful partnership in enterprise IT, it's hard to find anything that hasn't gone wrong with their relationship over the past two years.

• Livermore set to be first witness in HP-Oracle trial

  By Stephen Lawson | 01 June, 2012 02:04

  Ann Livermore, a member of Hewlett-Packard's board of directors and a longtime head of the company's enterprise business, will be the first witness called when a court in San Jose, California, hears HP's lawsuit against Oracle for ending future development on the Itanium platform.

• Cisco gets boost in server shipments in Q1, Gartner says

  By Agam Shah | 30 May, 2012 19:24

  Worldwide server shipments grew at a slower-than-expected clip during the first quarter of 2012, but Cisco, which has a small market share, beat market trends as top server makers struggled with slow demand and weak economic conditions, research firm Gartner said on Wednesday.

• Dell reaches for the cloud with new prototype ARM server

  By Agam Shah | 29 May, 2012 15:06

  Dell on Tuesday announced a prototype low-power server with ARM processors, following a growing demand by Web companies for custom-built servers that can scale performance while reducing financial overhead on data centers.

• Carbon tax: Silver lining to taxing times

  By Hafizah Osman | 28 May, 2012 07:57

  Channel businesses should be planning on how to deal with forthcoming Carbon Tax now, according to experts.

• Eaton unveils rewards program for disties and resellers

  By Mike Gee | 22 May, 2012 15:06

  Diversified industrial manufacturer, Eaton Corporation, has unveiled its PowerAdvantage Rewards Program, an incentive scheme created exclusively for the company's Australian channel distributors and resellers.

• Nvidia tries to link cloud with graphics processors

  By Agam Shah | 16 May, 2012 05:03

  Nvidia on Tuesday announced technologies that could make its upcoming Tesla graphics processors more accessible to cloud deployments in enterprises, while also reversing a trend of relegating highly parallel chips to specialized math and scientific calculations.

• Intel incorporates security, management into Core vPro processors

  By Ellen Messmer | 15 May, 2012 23:42

  Intel today described management and security capabilities that will be part of its new Intel Core vPro processor family used in PCs, tablets, laptops and intelligent systems.

• IN PICTURES: Intel Solutions Summit 2012 in Bali, Day 2

  By Patrick Budmar | 14 May, 2012 17:12

  Intel recently held its annual Solutions Summit for its APAC partners in Nusa Dua, Bali, where it unveiled its latest developments in processor and motherboard technology and its partner strategy for the region. Day 2 highlights included a product showcase.

• Dell, IBM announce servers with new Intel Xeon chips

  By Agam Shah | 15 May, 2012 01:09

  Dell and IBM announced servers with Intel's latest Xeon server chips, which will bring faster throughput and memory allowing servers to take on more complex workloads while reducing data center costs.

• Intel introduces first server chips with 3D transistors

  By Agam Shah | 15 May, 2012 01:09

  Intel on Monday announced faster and more power-efficient Xeon server processors, including the low-power E3 chip that has 3D transistors and is the first server processor based on Ivy Bridge microarchitecture.

• Dell announces first server with Intel's Ivy Bridge Xeon chips

  By Agam Shah | 08 May, 2012 23:04

  Dell on Tuesday announced a new microserver with Intel's first Xeon server processors based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture, which has not been officially announced by the chip maker yet.

• Facebook's open-source data-center project gains strength

  By Agam Shah | 03 May, 2012 06:21

  Facebook's year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centers gained momentum on Wednesday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs.

• HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centers

  By Loek Essers | 01 May, 2012 19:53

  Western Digital company HGST on Tuesday announced what it claimed to be the first 12 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) SAS solid state drive for use in enterprise storage servers, delivering twice the throughput compared to current 6Gbps SAS technology.

• Dell simplifies the blade server

  By Brian Chee | 27 April, 2012 00:03

  Part of Dell's server business is building custom machines for very large customers who want fewer bells and whistles but higher computing density and lower power consumption. The Dell PowerEdge C6220 is a server the company has brought out of this custom arena and into its regular sales channels. It is the second in a new series of servers that combines internal storage and two or four two-socket "nodes" (aka sleds or blades) wrapped up in a highly efficient 2RU package.