AMD and Hewlett Packard have claimed top spot on the 16-core VMware VMmark virtualisation benchmark, with the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based HP ProLiant DL585 G5.

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Verari Systems has introduced the SB5168XL DataServer, combining an Intel Xeon 3000 series processor and 10G Ethernet connectivity with the high density storage. The system is being pitched at Web 2.0 and Cloud applications.

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Memory specialist MetaRAM has announced availability of what it dubs DDR3 MetaSDRAM, a memory technology that doubles the capacity of certain types of random access memory (RAM), enabling significant increases in the amount of RAM that servers can support.

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Cloud computing hoster (aka Infrastructure as a Service provider) GoGrid is now offering both 32- and 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2008 as an on-demand service. One of a few companies to offer cloud-based Windows Server (Amazon’s EC2 is Linux and Solaris only), GoGrid customers can now deploy new servers in minutes, and manage their entire infrastructure via a web-based management control panel.

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Sun Microsystems has extended its family of Intel Xeon-based Sun Fire servers with two new offerings for High Performance Computing (HPC), Cloud/Web 2.0 and back office computing workloads, including a 1U server for HPC workloads and an expandable 2U enterprise-class system. The Sun Fire X2250 and Sun Fire X4250 servers, powered by one or two dual- or quad-core Intel Xeon processors 5200 or 5400 series, run a variety of operating systems, including Solaris 10, Linux and Windows.

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Leading Nordic investment bank Carnegie is leveraging Intel Xeon 5300 processors to create a virtualised environment, consolidating 140 legacy servers down to just 16 in its data centre. The benefits include increased flexibility, improved backup and significant operational expenses.

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IBM plans to spend $360 million on a new datacentre within its Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, facility, in order to deliver cloud computing capabilities to customers. The datacentre will feature high density computing systems (likely to include multii-processor servers and blade technology) and virtualisation software.

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Electronic trading marketplace NYFIX has turned to Egenera for a virtualised infrastructure, consisting of Egenera BladeFrame EX systems, which include 168 Processing Blade modules based on both Intel and AMD processors.

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Azul Systems launched its Vega 3 Series appliances, designed to run, process, and manage Java applications in business critical environments. Compared to the company’s first generation devices, Vega 3 products represent a fivefold improvement in performance, packaged in compact 5U or 14U appliance.

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NYSE Euronext announced that it has leveraged Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network to run its mission-critical financial trading platform. The exchange group investigated two competing Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and compared the solutions based purely on technology and related support.

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Enigmatec Corporation is partnering with Scalent Systems to combine its run book automation software with Scalent’s infrastructure virtualisation software for large data centers. The partnership will enable policy driven automation of server repurposing to dynamically place compute resources where and when they are needed in the data center. This implementation of “real-time infrastructure” lowers data center management operations costs and increases the flexibility to react to business change.

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