VMware splits off from Dell, continues independently
Dell and VMware have announced that they are parting ways. Dell had owned VMware since its acquisition of EMC, but the companies both hope to become less unwieldy by moving forward independently.
For the separation, VMware will pay a dividend of between 11.5 billion and 12 billion dollars (about...
Still not all OVHcloud services back online
Hosting provider OVHcloud is still recovering from the fire that destroyed two of its data centres. More than a month after the fire, there are still customers whose services have not been restored yet.
Recovering from the fire is a real nightmare, says OVH CEO Octave Klaba in a tweet. After a d...
Nvidia announces new workstation GPUs and conversational AI
Nvidia has announced several workstation GPUs based on the new Ampere architecture. The chip developer is also coming up with a new AI that can carry out real-time conversations.
The new graphics cards consist of two cards for desktop computers, four for mobile workstations and two for data cent...
PC market continues to boom despite shortage of chips
Gartner and IDC say worldwide PC shipments grew by a surprising amount in first quarter of 2021.
Despite a global shortage of semiconductor chips, the PC industry had a strong first quarter, according to research firm Gartner. They estimate that shipments of laptops and desktops rose 32 percent...
Meet Kyndryl, IBM’s new Managed Infrastructure Services Business
The new company is the result of Big Blue's spinoff of its Managed Infrastructure Services business.
IBM announced this week that Kyndryl will be the name of its new, independent company. The newco follows the separation of IBM's Managed Infrastructure Services business. The christening should h...
Nvidia announces its first data centre CPU, excels in AI and HPC
Nvidia has announced the Grace CPU. It is a data centre processor based on the Arm architecture. According to Nvidia the CPU excels in tasks related to artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.
The new processor was announced in a press release from Nvidia. The chip designer claims...
Zyxel adds firewalls to Nebula Cloud
Zyxel Networks announced that it has added integration with its USG FLEX firewalls to Nebula Cloud. This offers network administrators the possibility to control Zyxel firewalls from within the cloud environment.
The integration in Nebula Cloud should not only simplify management, but also impro...
Router supplies take up to 60 weeks due to chip shortages
Waiting times on orders for new routers are going off the rails. Current shortages in chip production are holding up deliveries of the devices. Especially for internet providers this can become a huge problem.
The order times have risen to as much as 60 weeks, sources tell Bloomberg. Due to the...
Cisco, Dell and Lenovo reveal Ice Lake servers
Following the announcement of the new Intel Ice Lake server processors, several manufacturers have unveiled their updated server line-up. In large part, these are modifications to existing servers in order to be able to work with the new processors.
Cisco comes with three new models: the UCS B20...
VMware adds support for Ampere Altra-chips
VMware has added support for Ampere Altra to its ESXi hypervisor. This makes ESXi more usable for SmartNICs, edge devices and Arm servers, for example.
The update in question is version 1.3 of the Arm version of the EXSi hypervisor and has been released as a preview under the so-called Fling pro...
Intel reveals 10nm server chips with up to 40 cores
Intel has unveiled the latest generation of its Xeon server chips. The new Ice Lake chips are based on a new architecture for the first time since Skylake and are manufactured on a smaller process. Intel has also added some special new features for AI and 5G, among others.
Navin Shenoy, executiv...
TSMC announces massive investments into chip production
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has announced an investment of 100 billion dollars (85 billion euros). The company plans to significantly scale up its production capacity over the next three years.
This is a considerable scaling up from the 28 billion dollars (24 billion euros) that TSMC ...