Lenovo building its first prototype ARM server

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Companies like Facebook and Google that run huge data centers are interested in ARM servers as a route to lower electricity bills.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More  INSIDER How network admins can survive SDN  Some doomsayers predict the network admin will be obsolete as network virtualization becomes the responsibility of the server or systems admin already in charge of server virtualization. Or that as SDN applications take on more network intelligence in order to program what network resources they need, the application developers might take over the role of network admin.Then again, they might not.Networking staffers could use the SDN/DevOps opportunity to make themselves more valuable to their IT organizations. 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