Rack Servers

Oxford Update
Last week Ewan and I started the DIY move to Begbroke. We moved 40 1 u servers over two mornings. One of the (now empty) Dell racks was moved on Wednesday afternoon. The worker nodes were reinstalled in that rack on Thursday, ...

Augmentix Rolls Out Rugged Server
The firm, which is venture backed by Austin Ventures, Centennial Ventures, and G-51 Capital, said the new A+1950 rugged server provides Xeon-based, 64-bit dual and quad-core processors in a 2U, rack and transit case mounted form factor. ...

IBM uses plumbing, watercoolers to chill supercomputer
IBM, Hewlett-Packard and others have created blade server racks with integrated chilled water tubes. Chilled water circulates through the pipes but can’t get as close to the hottest components. The company has also created liquid ...

Google launches App Engine
Best of all, if you don’t use it much - it doesn’t cost you as much, unlike having a rack of under used servers somewhere in a data-center. So, come the revolution, we can all be building our infrastructure from nothing but the cloud, ...

Linden Land Bolshevism
It's like a server rack rental cost. It's a maintenance fee. It's not real estate, not a fixed object that is actually your private property. That's, of course, at the root of the bolshevism of the world, in one way, but if the metaphor ...

7 Most Powerful Supercomputers in the World
This monster of a computer uses Linux as an operating system and consists of 544 of Bull’s NovaScale 6160 servers with each server eaturing eight Dual-Core Intel Itanium processors and runs at about 42.9 Teraflops. ...

HP Server Rack for Hewlett Packard Servers, RAID
HP Server RackHewlett Packard Server Rack for Servers, RAID and Other HP ComputersHP server racks for noise reduction of loud servers, RAID systems and other computer rackmount chassis. Racks for HP servers, RAID and computer rack mount ...

Poor Man's ESX Backup Proposal
Unfortunately, I was the one who suggested VMware as a way to handle my company's growth while restricted by our limited 2-rack closet space. Well, my boss trusted my judgement and ordered a $10k, 64-bit, HP power-beast of a server on ...

Yahoo: Microsoft’s Balmer decides to get heavy
Not a prison where our only companion is a rack of overheated servers feeding us Microsoft’s expensive and flaky desktop-centric software to keep us chained to our desks. That Internet dream has been a long time coming. ...

3rd line infrastructure engineer
Ideally you will have experience of using most of these technical systems; Server 2000, 2003, AD, Excahnge 2003, Symantec backup exec, group policy, DNS/ DHCP, ISA 2006, SAN/ NAS, IIS 6.0, microsoft products and the ability to rack ...