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• Intel's fastest 22-core Broadwell chip comes to new servers

  Every time Intel announces new Xeon chips, server makers waste no time in announcing new products.

• Qualcomm server chips now available to ARM developers through Cloud service

  Qualcomm's upcoming server chips are being tested by top-tier cloud players, but now developers can also work with them through a new cloud service.

• Turn a barebones PC into a graphics powerhouse with AMD's new FirePro server GPUs

  A barebones PC could turn into a multimedia or virtual reality powerhouse with new FirePro server graphics processors introduced by AMD.

• Retailer Kathmandu moves to AWS cloud

  "The customers get a great online experience; we only pay for servers when we need them,” says web development manager James Deane.

• The top five security concerns of server virtualisation

  In surveys of senior-level IT managers, security is consistently one of the top five concerns, along, specifically, with security related to the hot technology of the moment. Most recently those worries have included social-networking technologies such as Twitter and Facebook and other outlets through which employees could turn loose company confidential data. But the security of virtual servers and virtualised infrastructures also rank near the top of the list-and rightly so, according to analysts.
  It's not that virtual servers are any less secure than any other server, according to Neil MacDonald, security and infrastructure analyst at Gartner. In many ways virtual machines are more secure than standalone servers, if only because they are more isolated and because they depend on a single host server, which makes the physical security issue much simpler than if each were on a separate piece of hardware, he says.

• INSIGHT: Still not worried about Windows Server 2003? Think again…

  Anthony Stevens, CIO of KPMG Australia debates why CIOs are delaying the migration from Windows Server 2003.

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