With all the momentum that the OpenStack cloud computing platform has, it was inevitable that eventually hardware running it and optimized for it would appear. What is notable, though, is that one of the first OpenStack-based hardware entries comes from Nebula, the company that evolved from the NASA Nebula cloud with Chris Kemp, who was CIO of NASA. 

Apache is still by far the most widely deployed HTTP server, according to the latest Netcraft web server survey, but nginx has been slowly, steadily gaining market share, thanks to its blazing speed. If you want to try a faster web server and move from Apache to nginx, you'll probably have to change some of your websites' configurations, starting with rewrite directives. 

Which of the many servers on the market are best for Linux? There have been a number of exciting new advances over the past year that bring a few particular vendors and machines to the fore. Here are the ones Katherine Noyes and Dietrich Schmitz think look best in 2013.

Fans of the old Sun Microsystems may be wondering how the server business is doing at Oracle some three years after the acquisition. Over at GigaOm, Barb Darrow writes that Oracle’s gamble on hardware just isn’t paying off. Here’s the problem, since it entered the hardware business, Oracle hasn’t sold enough engineered systems to make up for...