January 24th, 2013

The New ARM Juggernaut Is A Server On A Chip

Tell me what a server is these days. Applied Micro Circuit CEO Paramsh Goti says that it’s on an ARM chip, a tiny microprocessor that does what the big old servers would once do on PC-style machines.

Goti has the company’s sights on Intel and AMD, which have dominated the data center market for the last several years. → Read More

January 18th, 2013

A Hackathon For The Data Center, Now That’s A First

Hackathons are almost cliche. But a data center hackathon is a first. This week at the Open Compute Summmit, attendees hacked together new ways to think about heating and cooling, power and a variety of other aspects of the data center. → Read More

January 16th, 2013

GitHub Passes The 3 Million Developer Mark

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GitHub has surpassed the 3 million-developer mark, a milestone for the collaborative platform for application development. GitHub said it happened Monday night on the first day of the company’s all-hands winter summit. Launched in April 2008, GitHub celebrated its first million users in September 2011. The company hit the 2 million mark in August 2012, just short of a year later. How many… → Read More

January 16th, 2013

Intel And Facebook Team To Open Source Data-Center Designs, Open Compute Project Grows With 12 New Members

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Facebook announced today at the Open Compute Summit that it is open-sourcing more of its data center designs for storing pictures, high availability and power consumption in data centers. → Read More