Dell aims for SME market

Aiming to provide the SME market with large enterprise services, Dell is rolling out two different one-socket quad-core servers, says ChannelWeb.

The new R300 rack server and T300 tower server are intended to help companies improve handling memory-intensive applications by offering 24GB of memory.

Additionally, the R300 helps improve energy cost savings for customers, with what Dell said is the industry's most energy efficient server, delivering the leading performance per watt compared to all currently-published SPECpower results.

The head of Cambridge University's Computer Lab has advocated a restructuring of today's computer architecture, in which processing power would move away from desktop systems and scattered data centres and be centralised close to mighty wind farms, says The Register.

Professor Andy Hopper's green thin-client plans were reported in today's Guardian. The professor outlined his ideas in a speech to the Royal Society.

"I think it is very interesting to contemplate a world with a smallish number of server farms, huge ones, which are deployed in places where the energy is produced," noted Hopper. He said it was much easier and more efficient to transmit information across distance than it was to transmit power.

Dedicated hosting provider The Planet has added a new advanced backup server, which marks the company's largest and most powerful backup server yet, says WHIR news.

The backup server includes 6TB of capacity in an enterprise-ready RAID5 configuration, providing resellers and their users with strong performance, security and instant backup capacity for mission-critical environments.

The server includes R1Soft's CDPServer software, enabling end-users to connect an unlimited number of server clients. R1Soft's continuous data protection enables The Planet customers to recover servers to their original known state by taking continuous data 'snapshots', as well as return to the last performed update to prevent any loss.