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Dell's new PowerEdge entry-level rack and tower servers are designed for small, medium and large businesses, according to the company.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

COMPANY NEWS by George Tsoukas, Gigamon: The internet is the most ambitious communication and data transference technology ever created. But with it advance come several challenges, and as we improve our ability to share large amounts of information between computers, servers and other digital devices, the risk of that data falling into unauthorised hands increases significantly.

Dell EMC has released 17 – count 'em, 17! – new PowerEdge servers targeting various types of workloads.

The newest range of AMD's epic EPYC server processors, known for kicking Intel's butt, is launching in the US on March 15, which is a very early 2am start for Australians on March 16.

GUEST OPINION by George Tsoukas, Gigamon:   For organisations that want to full benefit from their approach to the cloud, cloud-native computing may provide the answer. Unfortunately, although the benefits of the cloud-native approach are widely recognised, there is a lot of confusion about what cloud-native computing actually is.

Eight of the top 10 supercomputers on the latest Top500 list use Nvidia GPUs, Nvidia Mellanox InifiniBand networking, or both. Nvidia used the occasion to make several other announcements.

Expenditure by end users on IT infrastructure — server and enterprise storage systems — will decline in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the global market intelligence firm IDC says.

Australian server revenues decreased 5.1% in the fourth quarter of 2019, while shipments declined 6.5% year over year, according to a new analyst report.

Vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products — servers, enterprise storage and Ethernet switches — for cloud environments, both private and public, increased by 11.4% year-on-year for the first quarter of 2019, the analyst firm IDC says.

Global business technology firm, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has unveiled the next phase of its composable strategy, including expanded delivery of cloud services through an open hybrid cloud platform.

A former Apple official has cast further doubt on a Bloomberg story about alleged Chinese spying through the implant of chips on server motherboards made by US company Supermicro Computer. Ex-general counsel Bruce Sewell said the FBI had told him it had no knowledge of any probe into such an incident, as claimed by Bloomberg.

It wasn't enough for AMD to make PCs great again: the company epically decided a year ago that it was time to make servers great again, too, and the second year of AMD's avenging ways to the benefit of server customers has now begun.

A much faster future has arrived, with Crucial stating its new modules "increase system memory density to fuel memory-intensive server applications and workloads", increase performance and much more.

Strong regional performance in the Asia/Pacific region due to data centre infrastructure build-outs was mainly attributable to growth in worldwide server revenues and shipments in the second quarter of the year, according to a new report.

A researcher known as Benkow, based in Paris, has discovered a list of 711 million email addresses, servers and passwords on a Web server in the Netherlands, all used to send spam.

The main person behind the design of the ThinkPad, IBM's iconic laptop which is now the property of Lenovo, has decided to step down from the role after nearly 20 years of leading the design effort.

By Greg Wyman, Vice President Asia Pacific, ioFabric

Hardware supplied by Hewlett Packard Enterprise has malfunctioned, causing a major IT outage at the Australian Taxation Office, with staff unable to use systems on Monday and Tuesday.