Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525 Server Review

The Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525 is a 2U server designed to address the need for high-performance dense-computing environments, such as HPC workloads. As the name/number ends in a “5” this indicates The C6525 is an AMD EPYC-based server, supporting both the 7002 and 7003. The latter goes along with higher performance (more cores and threads), more RAM capacity, and PCIe Gen4 capabilities. The C6525 has four nodes that allow two AMD EPYC CPUs each for grand totals of 512 cores, 1024 threads, and up to 8TB of memory in the 2U cluster. (more…)
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Microsoft Teams to Introduce Meeting Timer for Breakout Rooms

Microsoft Teams will soon allow organisers set a timer for Breakout Rooms and also let them move participants from one room to another. Microsoft Teams is also working on a feature to let only people in an organisation – and not guests – bypass the meeting lobby and jump straight into an ongoing meeting.
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How Amazon Is Fighting Door to Door to Beat Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance

The Supreme Court will soon decide on its bid to scuttle the $3.4 billion (roughly Rs. 24,630 crore) sale of debt-laden retailer Future Group’s assets to Amazon’s archrival Reliance. But the rivalry between Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Reliance’s Mukesh Ambani won’t end with a verdict in the Future Group case.
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Apple, Epic Games CEOs on List of Witnesses in Fortnite Case

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney are among the top executives from the companies to be on the witness list in the Fortnite case, court documents show. Apple and Epic Games, creator of the popular game Fortnite, have been in a legal battle since last year, when Epic Games tried to avoid a 30 percent App Store fee by launching its own in-app payment sys...
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News Bits: GIGABYTE, NETGEAR, NetApp, AWS, TEAMGROUP, & Diamanti

In this week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. GIGABYTE announces support for AMD EPYC 7003. NETGEAR announces the new Nighthawk Mesh MK83 router. NetApp launches Spot Wave. AWS announced new EC2 instances. TEAMGROUP T-CREATE line announced. Diamanti announces Spektra 3.2. (more…)
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