Atto launches what it claims is an industry first-- the Celerity FC-164E 16Gb/s fibre channel quad-channel host bus adapter (HBA) ideal for Linux and Windows environments.

The HBA supports higher IOP capabilities, allowing customers to handle the increased storage virtualised workloads demand. Other features include Atto Advanced Data Streaming (ADS) and MultiPath Director. 

“These products deliver the highest bandwidth and port density, providing original equipment manufacturers and system integrators with an unprecedented solution when designing st Read more...

Open source is the way to go, at least for Facebook-- the social network open-sources more data centre designs at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit IV and announces a rack technology collaboration with Intel. 

The 2 companies are working on "a new disaggregated, rack-scale server architecture that enables independent upgrading of compute, network and storage subsystems that will define the future of mega-data centre designs for the next decade," Intel CTO Justin Rattner says.

The future rack architecture is based Intel's silicon photonics technology, seen at the summit in Quanta-built mechanical prototype form. The photonics technology replaces copper interconnects with optical fibre, allowing for fewer cables, increased bandwidth (up to 100Gbps) and "extreme" power efficiency. Read more...

AMD launches what it claims is the "1st open modular platform for the masses"-- the Open 3.0 platform (aka Roadrunner), a server motherboard compliant to Open Compute Project standards. 

Opteron 6300 series processors power the platform consisting of 16- x 16.7-inch board (fits 1U, 1.5U, 2U or 3U racks). It fits in all standard 19-inch racks, as well as Open Rack environments. 

The board carries x2 Opteron 6300 chips (each with x12 memory sockets), x6 SATA connections, x1 dual-channel ethernet NIC (with integrated management), up to x4 PCIe expansion Read more...

Intel launches the Atom S1200 processor series-- the first low-power 64-bit server-class system-on-chip (SoC) designed for high-density microserver use from the company. 

This means Intel is now up and running against ARM, whose 64-bit multicore SoC designs are in use by the likes of AMD. 

Code-named Centerton, Intel aims the processors at cloud or web-hosting services as well as customers using lower-end storage and networking systems. 

The Atom S1200 series consists of 3 dual-core chips, each with 4 threads and Intel Hyper Threading technology-- Read more...