"Cloud computing has brought a sea change to the data center--dramatically altering the economics of compute by changing the workload and optimal characteristics of a server, " said Andrew Feldman, SeaMicro CEO, who will become general manager of AMD's newly created Data Center Server Solutions business.
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In comparison, the average workload per traditional data center server will grow from one and a half in 2011 to two in 2016.
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Beyond improving server and data center technology for others, the move by Facebook makes a mark on the larger global technology stage.
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Decoupling refresh cycles lets data center customers purchase server compute nodes, which are essentially very small motherboards (processor, system memory, boot environment, management, and connection to a local network fabric), separately from rack-level data center network interfaces (1GbE and 10GbE), separately from mass storage (hard disks and solid-state drives).
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To the extent that the Nasdaq market exists anywhere, it's within a single rack-mounted Dell server in a rented data center somewhere across the Hudson River.
Today, virtualization allows servers to be converted to software "images" that can be consolidated and hosted on a single physical server, increasing a data center's efficiency by about 25%, Kerravala estimates.
The Intel Atom processor S1200 product family is the first low-power SoC delivering required data center features that ensure server-class levels of reliability and manageability while also enabling significant savings in overall costs.
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All of this implies that power consumption has moderately increased, server count slightly greater than power consumption, and user count much faster thus implying data center efficiency has improved in power consumption per server and enormously improved in users per server.
The business ecosystem Watson epitomizes ranges from the chip and server makers, to Cloud data center builders and operators.
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The data center will be used to provide server space for tech startups at lower rates to help them keep costs down.
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But Cisco threw a grenade into that punchbowl last March, when it announced its Unified Computing System, a collection of data center products that included its own server.
When Splunk is used in the data center, many different collections of server logs, network logs, or other machine generated data are indexed so that the data can be searched and distilled.
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Think of a web server log, something that is examined by the data center staff on a regular basis to help diagnose problems.
You should be able to answer this question by data center, by type of infrastructure, by type of server and by application.
Enterprise servers, the kind server that dominates IT department purchasing today, have dedicated storage and data center network access on each motherboard.
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It will be done on 20 dedicated state-of-the-art Illumina and Life Technologies instruments that CHOP and BGI have installed at the new Joint Genome Center there, and BGI bioinformaticians will log in to a CHOP server to analyze the data remotely from China.
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Next he pushed executives to develop a new marketing strategy based on energy conservation, again building off the experience at APC, which came to dominate the data-center business by developing new products, including cooling systems that adjust themselves to the demands of individual server racks.
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