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Infrastructure

40Gig and 100Gig Ethernet standard ratified

June 25, 2010

The next generation of high-rate server connectivity and core switching is with us. IEEE 802.3ba, a new standard governing 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Ethernet operations, and the first to cover two specifications simultaneously, has been ratified. According to an IEEE statement:
“IEEE 802.3ba will eliminate these bottlenecks by providing a robust, scalable architecture for meeting [...]

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The Ultimate PC History Quiz

June 15, 2010

A little bit of fun for non-footie fans and those already bored of watching men in colourful shirts and gaudy footwear chasing a beach ball around a field.
This quiz is brought to you by those nice people at How Stuff Works?.
ADD YOUR SCORE TO THE COMMENTS BOX.
JUST A BIT OF FUN THIS TIME. [...]

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The great server-centricity con job

June 13, 2010

by Steve Barnett of VMC, and originally published on their VM Yak blog:
Hardware today allows for higher and higher consolidation ratios “even if it is not our hardware”. More and more dense ram configurations are available but according to IDC the average number of VMs run on a single piece of physical hardware remains stubbornly [...]

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Server sales soar as we virtualise more

May 28, 2010

Steve at Virtual Machine Co. has just sent us a link to this item on theregister.com about IDC’s report on server sales figures for Q1 2010, and provides his take on what they reveal.
First-quarter 2010 server sales figures released by IDC show factory gate prices up 4.6% to $10.42 billion, meaning server sales in 2010 [...]

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