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IT surfaces from the back room to take the helm

By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Go thin or go home — that’s the graphene way

Some analysts estimate that Moore's Law  -- the ability of manufacturers to double the number of transistors on a chip every 18 months -- will end in

Boston’s ARM servers aim to kick x86 AaaS

There's been a lot of bluster about ARM servers and how they'll upend the traditional x86 market when 64-bit ARM offerings come to market, but the fact remains that software designed on x86 servers does not readily translate to

Is IBM finally going mobile?

IBM plans to work with Nokia Siemens Networks to make our smartphones more responsive. What does this mean for the data center? Well, we've learned about placing small data...

Not a Linux sysadmin? Maybe you should be

Linux jobs are in high demand for another year, and there are just not enough seasoned Linux admins to fill the spots available, according to The Linux Jobs Report from Dice.com and The Linux...

Valentine’s Day? How about Hug a Data Center Engineer Day?

We often speak cavalierly about building new data centers and all that goes into them. But unless you've actually done it -- and I haven't -- it's easy to take all the effort and talent involved for granted. Just remember, without the data center architects, your smartphone would be decidedly less...

Qualcomm enters 64-bit ARM chip fray

Chip manufacturing giant Qualcomm has listed job openings for ARMv8 engineers, which makes it the latest vendor to show interest in building 64-bit processors with ARM's latest design. Though Qualcomm is by no means the first to enter the 64-bit ARM server fray -- Calxeda, Marvell, Applied Micro...

The petaflops of citizen science

It's hard work discovering the secrets of the universe, and now the Einstein@Home distributed computing project has broken the petaflop – the compute power of approximately 61 million iPad 2 processors – barrier in its quest to find pulsars and gravity waves. "But," you might say,...

Data center fright night, part two “Total Shutdown”

Did you enjoy yesterday's spine-tingler? Then you'll enjoy today's terrifying tale of data center despair.

"Total shutdown: A cautionary tale"

Prepare to be scared: Night of the living data center

Grab a flashlight, head to your nearest lights-out data center, and hunker down for some creepy data center horror stories courtesy of some data center experts. Are these true tales? Stay tuned for tomorrow's part two. Data center fright night, part one

"Night of the Living...