Justgiving, which hosts Stephen's online fundraising page, said its engineers had to "work quickly" to boost server capacity after a sharp increase in visitors to the site.
Virtualization, which McKinsey says can boost server utilization to 18% from 10%, lets you treat one machine like many, by carving the servers into many virtual engines, so that software can maximize power from one machine and add scalability.
As James Hamilton of Amazon Web Services observed recently at a Google-hosted data-center-efficiency summit, there is no Moore's Law for power — while servers become progressively more powerful (and cheaper to deploy) and software boosts server productivity, the cost of energy (as well as water, needed for cooling) stays constant or rises.
Earlier this week, the U.S. firm revealed plans to expand its datacenter in Singapore as part of an ongoing initiative to boost its server capacity in Asia.
Here is a sector-by-sector breakdown of what to expect this earnings season: Server & PC Hardware sector: The Internet infrastructure build-out is boosting demand for server and mainframe class computers, which should come in handy for companies such as EMC Corp., International Business Machines, Sun Microsystems and Unisys.
VMware's software creates virtual computers inside a server, boosting the efficiency of data centers and driving down the cost of servers.
"The GameSparks platform offers a single integrated tool to build these server components, boosting player retention and maximising revenue without ever having to set up and run a server," the startup notes in its AWS Marketplace listing.
Besides boosting demand for its servers, Sun is betting the zero price tag will also lure developers to write programs for computers running the OS.
The same is true of IPTV: there is probably not much money to be made in set-top boxes, but it could help to boost sales of server software.Follow thatIt must be galling for Microsoft that no new market it enters could possibly be as lucrative as the operating-system business a business that has, after all, been declared an illegal monopoly in both American and European courts.
Cisco, meanwhile, is shoving its way into the computer-server business and boosting its video offerings.
