Nvidia has spent recent years establishing itself as a leader in the hardware market for AI acceleration. Those bets began paying off hugely with devices like the Nvidia H100 becoming hot sellers and the streak has not come to an end. Nvidia has now shared its Q3 earnings report, showing revenues have grown by a massive 206 percent compared to Q3 in the previous year.
Read More »Arctic unveils Freezer 4U-M for Intel and AMD-based servers
The DIY audience knows Arctic well from decades of excellent CPU cooler launches. Today, Arctic is launching something for the server and data centre crowd – the new Freezer 4U-M. The Arctic Freezer 4U-M is the successor to the Freezer 4U SP3. Offering multi-socket support for Intel and AMD processors, …
Read More »Gigabyte’s Giga Computing unveils new Compute Nodes powered by EPYC Genoa
Many of us know Gigabyte for their PC components, peripherals and monitors but the company's subsidiary, Giga Computing, is also big in the server world. In October, Gigabyte's Giga Computing is exhibiting at the OCP Global Summit, showcasing new EPYC OCP V3 Compute Nodes. The new GIGABYTE OCP ORv3 products …
Read More »Seagate launches Exos CORVAULT self-healing mass storage system
Seagate is looking to revamp mass-capacity storage this year with the launch of the Exos CORVAULT, a ‘self-healing', high-density storage system intended to streamline data management and reduce human intervention for macro edge and data centre environments. The Exos CORVAULT offers SAN-level performance using a breakthrough storage architecture that combines …
Read More »Kingston DC450R 3.84TB SSD Review
We check out Kingston's DC450R SSD, aimed at the data-centre market
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Read More »Nvidia datacenter GPU sales are catching up to GeForce
Nvidia is seeing a rising demand for its A100 GPUs – mainly from datacenter businesses such as Amazon (AWS), Baidu and Microsoft. The revenues from datacenter solutions have grown to the extent that they are reported to be “close to those from gaming”. Nvidia is probably best known for its …
Read More »Kingston begins shipping 7.68 TB data centre SSDs
Kingston has announced plans to begin shipping of its DC1000M 7.68TB U.2 NVMe in June, while the 7.68 TB 500R data centre and DC450R SATA SSDs are available now. Both new SSD series are designed to provide additional storage while implementing strict QoS to ensure predictable I/O and low latency …
Read More »Gigabyte and Incooling create new class of phase-change server cooling
Gigabyte has announced a new partnership with cooling specialists Incooling to design a prototype model for a new class of two-phase liquid cooling solution...
Read More »Western Digital launch world’s first 20TB SMR HDD
Western Digital has announced it is shipping new HDD samples to enterprise OEMs and hyperscale customers worldwide. The new devices are the industry’s highest capacity HDDs featuring up to a huge 20TB capacity in SMR form. First announced in September 2019, the new high-capacity HDDs from Western digital include the …
Read More »Intel acquires Habana Labs for $2 billion to boost AI business
The AI chip market has been growing significantly over the years and all of the big tech giants are looking to score a piece of the pie. Intel is making some big moves in this space right now, announcing the acquisition of Habana Labs in a deal worth $2 billion. …
Read More »Kingston DC500R 3.84TB SSD Review
Kingston's latest DC500R SSD is a drive designed for read-centric workloads in data centres
Read More »Intel announce Nervana Neural Network processors
Intel has announced a new wave of artificial intelligence. Its Nervana Neural Network processors are designed to accelerate AI system development and deployment from cloud to edge, with a new class of AI hardware. At a gathering of industry influencers, Intel demonstrated its new Nervana Neural Network Processor for Training (NNP-T1000) …
Read More »Micron X100 SSD brings 3D XPoint Technology for data centres
Micron is widely known for its Cruical branded desktop range of SSD and memory solutions. The company also provides a range of high speed, high capacity storage devices for professional enterprise and data centre systems. Micron has announced an innovative memory technology which claims to produce the world’s fastest SSD, …
Read More »AMD Launches EPYC ‘Rome’ Zen 2 CPUs – Up to 64 Cores for $7K
AMD has today officially launched its new range of Zen 2-based EPYC datacenter CPUs, codenamed Rome, introducing the world's highest performance x86 processor.
Read More »576TB SSD storage systems under 45mm high at Cloud Expo
Several halls at London's Excel were crammed this week for Cloud Expo Europe 2019, which ran alongside Data Centre World, Blockchain Tech World, Smart IoT and DevOps Live. KitGuru hustled and bustled with the huge crowd to get a better look at the hardware that's underpinning the move back from …
Read More »Qualcomm quashes rumours that it was leaving the server chip market
Last month, Qualcomm was reportedly set to leave the server chip market in a bid to drastically cut costs and please its investors. It seems that this rumour was blown out of proportion, as the chipmaker has insisted that it will continue to make ARM-based chips specifically for data centres. …
Read More »Apple has scrapped plans to build $1 billion data centre in Ireland
Back in 2015, Apple announced plans to build two new data centres in Europe, which would run entirely on renewable energy. The first was set to be built in Ireland and cost $1 billion to build, but we are three years on at this point and so far, no progress …
Read More »Dell to acquire EMC for $67 billion- largest deal in tech history
Dell has announced that it is going to take over data centre giant, EMC in a massive $67 billion acquisition deal, the largest ever in the history of the tech industry so far. EMC has apparently agreed to the sale price, which is worth around $33.15 per share, though some …
Read More »Qualcomm sampling 24-core ARM processor for servers
Qualcomm has started to sample a new 24-core ARM processor aimed for use in servers and data centres, the company has revealed. The new chip in question is a pre-production system on chip (SoC) based on the ARMv8-A instruction set, which will be purposed for tackling common data centre workloads and …
Read More »Microsoft and US still butting heads over data stored in Ireland
Microsoft and the US Department of Justice are still butting heads over access to data stored on the company's Ireland based servers. The US has been trying to force Microsoft in to giving it access to information in the firm's datacentre in Ireland for some time now and Microsoft is …
Read More »Cloud server hardware providers rub their hands
For each generation of good idea, there needs to be a seed: An injection of high-profile capital that energises the market and fires the imagination. With The Cloud, that investment could well be from Microsoft. KitGuru pulls out the trusty old abacus. People have been talking about the cloud for …
Read More »Green pioneers direct current data centre with HP
While Dell is packing big and bad with the news that it has a brand new line up of tiny and powerful Copper servers with ARM technology, HP has not been resting. Instead, its engineers have been working with the biggest IT/communications service providers in Switzerland, to try and save …
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