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IDC: Record Server Revenues in Q2 2018

07 September 2018 Marco Attard Networking Hardware

According to IDC global server revenues are up by 43.7% Y-o-Y in Q2 2018 to reach $22.5 billion, the highest yet. Shipments are also on the up, growing by 20.5% Y-o-Y to 2.9m units. EMEA server revenue growth clocks at 28.9% Y-o-Y.

The analyst says the Q2 2018 is the 4th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth, the result of overall market server demand. Volume server revenues increased by 42.7% Y-o-Y to $18.4bn, while midrange server revenues grew by 63% Y-o-Y to $2.5bn. High-end server systems are worth $1.7bn, a 30.4% Y-o-Y increase.

"The worldwide server market continues to flourish amid a market-wide enterprise refresh cycle and increasing demand from cloud service providers," IDC remarks. "Enterprises continue to invest in new infrastructure to support next-generation applications and achieve cloud-like benefits on premise. Hyperscalers also continue to update and expand their datacenter presence, benefiting ODM Direct suppliers. Server revenue growth has also been driven by increasing ASPs. This is due to richer configurations, DRAM prices, and new processor platforms."

Lenovo and Pivot3 Team Up in Smart City

31 August 2018 Frederick Douglas Networking Hardware

The Lenovo Data Centre Group (DCG) and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) vendor Pivot3 announce a "global strategic partnership" in edge computing solutions optimised for mission-critical smart city security.

The partnership involves the building of integrated appliances based on ThinkSystem servers, as powered by Pivot3 HCI software. Such systems, according to the two companies, can use the vast amounts of data gathered by city sensors in analytics tasks such as facial recognition, behavioural analysis and license plate recognition, among other intelligence.

IHS Markit says the global demand for city surveillance is on the up-- the market achieved revenues worth $3 billion in 2017, and is set to grow at a CAGR of 14.6% through 2021.

AMD Intros Radeon Pro V340 Dual-GPU Card

31 August 2018 Alice Marshall Networking Hardware

AMD Intros Radeon Pro V340 Dual-GPU Card

AMD launches the Radeon Pro V340-- a high-performance dual-GPU Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) graphics card built to power demanding datacentre visualisation workloads, including CAD, design and rendering.

Based on Vega architecture, the V340 is the first AMD VDI hardware solution equipped with 32GB of 2nd generation high-bandwidth memory. Powering it are GPUs built using the 14nm FinFET process, as paired with AMD MxGPU hardware-based GPU virtualisation technology, which in turn is based on industry standard SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualisation) technology.

Dell EMC Intros PowerEdge MX

24 August 2018 Marco Attard Networking Hardware

Dell EMC announces the PowerEdge MX-- an example of what the company calls "kinetic infrastructure," a modular datacentre able to support multiple generations of technologies, making for a future-proof server.

The design of the MX has no mid-plane, allowing support for fully disaggregated components, down to memory-centric devices such as storage-class memory, GPUs and FPGAs. As a result it offers full composability, transforming infrastructure into a "dynamic pool of instantly responding, adapting and evolving resources."

Primarily aimed at software-defined datacentre, the MX handles combinations of virtualisation, software-defined storage, software-defined networking, AI and big data. It supports emerging technologies such as NVMe and 25GbE connectivity, and customers can pick and match features such as compute or storage to take advantage of the composable nature of the hardware.

Dell EMC Pushes Open Networking With Z9264F-ON Switch

17 August 2018 Frederick Douglas Networking Hardware

Dell EMC Pushes Open Networking With Z9264F-ON Switch

Dell EMC announces an addtion to the Open Networking portfolio-- the Z9264F-ON, a dense switch offering 64 100GbE ports in a compact 2U form form factor designed to replace legacy chassis switching systems.

"Our enterprise and service provider customers have been unequivocal in their desire for innovative and Open Networking solutions for their datacentre infrastructure," the company says. "The new Z9264F-ON delivers on that desire, providing our customers with the most capable 100GbE switching platform in the industry and granting our customers maximum control over their network spend and their infrastructure."