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Sun delivers first UltraSparc T2-based servers Sun Microsystems late Monday announced its first UltraSparc T2-based servers, which the company hopes will cut the number of servers required in datacenters. Storage arrays are dead; long live the tape library I've been watching and waiting for years for a vendor to proclaim the demise of disk storage, and this week it finally happened. The vendor who made the bold statement is Sun, specifically CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz.  October 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT DataCore revs up apps with memory caching It was a long time ago, and my memory may not serve me perfectly well, but I'm pretty sure that the concept of caching is about as old as computing itself. Nevertheless, dedicating fast-access memory space to temporarily park frequently referenced data is still the best and most effective way to cut down on I/O time. September 28, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun's newest server: Dynamite comes in small packages Late last year, I conducted an exhaustive test of Dell, HP, and Sun blade systems at InfoWorld's Hawaii labs. Everyone brought the big boxes, and we ran them through their paces using the SPEChpc benchmark suite. It was a great test that produced some unexpected results -- namely, the Dell blades took a surprising victory over both Sun and HP. September 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT Tech giants chart research goals Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies. September 26, 2:53 p.m. PDT 'Ghost servers' can haunt your bottom line The problem may not rival the movies "Poltergeist" or "The Amityville Horror" for sheer terror, but CIOs and datacenter managers are still well advised to deal decisively with so-called ghost servers. Like celluloid zombies, these forgotten pieces of equipment are dead when it comes to improving the bottom line, but they are very much alive when it comes to eating up IT budgets. September 26, 8:24 a.m. PDT Sun launches its first x86 quad-core servers Adding spark to its Sun Fire line of servers, Sun Microsystems is expected to announced its first x86-based quad-core systems Tuesday . September 25, 4:42 a.m. PDT Microsoft offers first RC of Windows Server 2008 The long march to the release of Windows Server 2008, aka Longhorn Server, continued on Monday, as Microsoft announced that it is making the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming operating system available for public download. September 24, 3:37 p.m. PDT From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtualFrom big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT On the road to the virtual desktop Click ‘n’ run. It seems like such a simple concept. Surf up to a Web page, select the desired application from a list, and click. Voila! Microsoft Word appears on your desktop. Or Excel, or Adobe Photoshop… you name it. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Herd behavior demonstrated at Demo "Whatever happened to working alone?” September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Credit Suisse plans virtualization a massive scale With 20,000 servers to manage, financial services powerhouse Credit Suisse had a long list of reasons to consider server virtualization: reducing the number of physical servers to manage, cutting power needs, improving software provisioning time, and deferring expensive datacenter buildouts. But it also needed a clear set of guidelines to determine when to virtualize, plus a clear set of procedures for managing a virtualization initiative. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Purdue pursues long-term cost savings Like other adopters of server virtualization, Purdue University was concerned that its datacenter would hit the wall, exceeding physical space, power, and cooling limits. The use of EMC VMware let it combine 140 physical servers into three Hewlett-Packard DL-585 servers, a 40:1 compression ratio, says Mike Rubesch, director of IT infrastructure systems. "It helps postpone the inevitable," he adds. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Transplace beefs up hardware for a virtual world Managing transportation logistics is all about handling scale. As transportation management services firm Transplace added consumer goods companies such as Del Monte, Office Depot, Home Depot, Auto Zone, and DirecTV as customers, it needed to quickly bring server capacity online. Already planning a hardware refresh to support continued growth, CTO Vince Biddlecombe decided to bring in server virtualization at the same time so that he'd have a more scalable, flexible platform for that anticipated growth. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Stonebridge Bank averts a capacity crisis It's a dilemma faced by IT administrators everywhere. "We ran out of rack space, air conditioning capacity, and UPSes at the end of 2004, but we needed more servers," recalls George Rapp, senior vice president of IT for Stonebridge Bank, a regional institution in Pennsylvania. Getting more power in and more heat out was just not an option for the bank's datacenter, so Rapp consolidated multiple Unix servers into one box to reduce the physical footprint and delay the crisis. "But it got us only part of the way," he notes. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Tigerton, Barcelona to 'reinvigorate' high-end server market Newly released processors from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel will reinvigorate the market for high-end servers, according to one server analyst. September 11, 4:14 a.m. PDT Microsoft enters virtual machine-management Microsoft released its first software designed specifically to manage virtual machines on a network Thursday and tweaked licensing for its system-management products to take into account virtualization. September 6, 1:47 p.m. PDT HP picks Intel chip for quad-core servers Hewlett-Packard launched a server based on Intel's new Tigerton quad-core Xeon processor Thursday, battling IBM for customers who run data-intensive business applications like enterprise resource planning and virtualization software. September 6, 12:24 p.m. PDT IBM bolsters blade family with Cell upgrade IBM announced an upgraded version of its blade server based on the Cell processor on Wednesday, adding memory and data throughput for better performance on high-end applications, such as graphics and finance. August 30, 12:24 p.m. PDT SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors. August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT Hospital undergoes wireless surgery For years, wireless technologies have only shown up in many U.S. hospitals in the form of rolling computers with Wi-Fi network access, but as evidenced at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, times are changing. August 13, 2:37 p.m. PDT Sun to axe unspecified number of jobs by mid-2008 Sun Microsystems plans to lay off an unspecified number of employees by the middle of 2008 as part of a corporate restructuring effort, according to a filing Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. August 7, 1:13 p.m. PDT IBM shows what Power6 processor can do IBM is introducing a new feature of its recently released Power6 processor that makes it possible to move a Unix-based computer workload from one server to another while it is running. August 7, 4:28 a.m. PDT IBM switching its server datacenters to mainframes IBM is replacing 3,900 servers in its own datacenters with 30 mainframe computers to save energy and to show that the mainframe is still very much alive. August 1, 4:19 a.m. PDT Intel backs specification for low-cost blade servers Intel expects a draft specification for blade servers to help vendors cut their development costs and push the space-saving systems into new markets. July 30, 4:21 a.m. PDT Desktop on a USB drive ready for enterprises Software that lets you carry your data, applications, and personal desktop around on a USB-attached device is expanding into enterprises. July 29, 9:03 p.m. PDT AMD offers more details on quad-core Opteron processors Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Thursday gave journalists and analysts a peek at its road map of upcoming processors, including more details on the company's quad-core processors and plans for a family of server chips with 16 cores. July 27, 4:20 a.m. PDT HP reportedly in talks to acquire French IT company Bull The French Web site Capital is reporting advanced talks between Hewlett-Packard and Bull, saying that HP may offer €720 million ($992 million) to buy one of France's last big IT companies. That would be a premium of about 40 percent over Bull's average share price in July. July 26, 8:17 a.m. PDT Microsoft wraps up work on Windows Home Server Microsoft released Windows Home Server (WHS) to manufacturing today, hitting the final milestone for software that will power several turnkey home servers that OEMs will put on the market in late September and early October. July 16, 10:45 a.m. PDT APC instruments mark the rebirth of cool The tried and true methods of prepping a datacenter haven't changed much over the years. You find a massive air conditioner or three, bring in lots of juice, and make sure there aren't any sprinkler heads in the ceiling. But although this is the way it's always been done, APC is betting that it's not the way it will be done in the future -- except for the sprinkler heads. July 16, 3:00 a.m. PDT The cool new look in datacenter design Datacenter design is undergoing a significant transformation. The fundamentals of the datacenter -- servers, cooling systems, UPSes -- remain the same, but their implementations are rapidly changing, thanks in large part to the one variable cost in the server room: energy. July 16, 3:00 a.m. PDT HP debuts cheaper ProLiant servers for Asia Hewlett-Packard introduced an entry-level rack server in India on Thursday, part of its strategy to design lower-cost servers specifically for Asian countries. July 12, 4:31 a.m. PDT Reap the rewards of hardware recycling In late 2000, Union Bank of California concluded that it was time to refresh its desktop PCs every four years, based on findings from a PC Total Cost of Ownership Study. This meant that 200 PCs would have to be retired every month. Unfortunately, there was no strategy in place for the task, or even a designated person or department to manage the systems. July 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM pushes z9 mainframe for small business IBM unveiled a Web site and IT security software application Thursday as part of its effort to compete with Hewlett-Packard and Sun for customers in the fast-growing SMB sector. June 21, 11:58 a.m. PDT IBM offers blade server for the little guy IBM Corp. is adding to its blade server line with an upcoming model targeted at small-to-medium-sized businesses. June 13, 10:15 a.m. PDT Tech companies set goals for energy efficiency A group of some of the biggest technology companies said they've committed to a plan to improve the power efficiency of equipment they make and use. June 12, 1:05 p.m. PDT AMD keeps Barcelona specs under wraps Some of the first servers based on Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD's) upcoming Barcelona quad-core chip are on display at Computex, but details of the chips are being kept tightly under wraps. June 7, 3:45 a.m. PDT Sun launches first blades from new Intel deal Sun Microsystems is reaching for a larger share of the blade server market with Wednesday's launch of new models, including the first-ever Sun blades from its new alliance with chip maker Intel. June 6, 4:59 a.m. PDT Server makers show first Barcelona systems Server makers are showing their first systems based on Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming quad-core Opteron chip, known as Barcelona. June 5, 4:38 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Phil Nail As concerns over potential power shortages and global warming rise, some IT leaders are just now dipping their toes into the waters of energy efficiency and environmental responsibility. But Affordable Internet Service Online (AISO) co-founder and CTO Phil Nail has been riding high atop the ecogreen wave since the 1990s. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT ANA still in the dark on reservation systems failure All Nippon Airways (ANA) still doesn't know the exact cause of a systems failure that hit its domestic operations on Sunday and caused the cancellation or delay of hundreds of flights. May 31, 4:58 a.m. PDT Agilysys to buy Sun reseller Innovativ IT distributor Agilysys Inc. continued its strategy of growing by acquisition, announcing plans to buy Innovativ Systems Design Inc., a major U.S. reseller of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s servers and storage products. May 25, 9:04 a.m. PDT Microsoft, Novell defend partnership, promise details Executives from Microsoft and Novell defended their controversial business agreement to collaborate and promote integration between Windows and Novell's SUSE Linux operating systems on Wednesday, saying that Microsoft's sales organization is now the biggest channel for SUSE Linux and that the deal will help, not hurt the prospects of Linux in the enterprise. May 24, 5:00 a.m. PDT IBM, HP lead server market thanks to x86 sales IBM edged out Hewlett-Packard in first-quarter server revenue as both companies relied on a rebound in sales of x86-based computers, according to a market report released Tuesday. May 22, 2:25 p.m. PDT Dell unveils enterprise Project Hybrid strategy Looking to regain its lost momentum, Dell announced on Thursday Project Hybrid, a revamped strategy for selling its products to enterprises. May 17, 2:23 p.m. PDT Startup's DNS server boosts VOIP and media streaming U.K. startup 3C has launched what it calls the world's fastest authoritative DNS server, capable of answering over a million queries per second on a single CPU. May 16, 7:00 a.m. PDT ColdWatt: making servers mean and green High-efficiency power supplies might not have the same "wow" factor as some other technologies associated with developing a greener, more cost-efficient datacenter (say, server virtualization). But consider this: replacing your existing power supplies with more efficient alternatives from ColdWatt could save $50,000 a year for a 400-server datacenter. Now isn't that wow-worthy? May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT 3Leaf Systems: Scale up by scaling out 3Leaf Systems co-founder and CEO Bob Quinn is a betting man. A veteran of startups specializing in event-driven architectures, network processing, and scalable SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems, Quinn is now wagering that hardware and software technology will turn heaps of AMD and Intel x64 servers into virtualized "warehouses" of compute, memory, and I/O resources. May 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT GPL incompatibilities with Apache to be ironed out The Free Software Foundation, in upgrading the GNU General Public License, intends to iron out any incompatibilities with similar licenses from organizations such as the Apache Software Foundation. May 10, 11:45 a.m. PDT HP raises Q2 guidance Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday raised its estimate for second-quarter earnings to a range of $25.50 billion to $25.55 billion, pointing to higher than expected sales of consumer PCs and business servers. May 8, 8:02 a.m. PDT Yet another cleaning lady story Incident: Dust bunnies collect everywhere. Even in server rooms with rubber floors, sleek black racks, and loads of fans. Why this happens has eluded even DARPA’s finest scientific minds. What’s also eluded DARPA’s brain trust is why offices routinely allow their cleaning people access to critical server rooms during unsupervised off-hours. May 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM plans to create SMB blade bundles IBM intends to make its blade servers more attractive to small to midsize business (SMB) customers and help its business partners target those users. May 2, 6:06 a.m. PDT CEO: SMB to become IBM's 'largest industry' The head of IBM expects the company's small to midsize business (SMB) operation to become the vendor's biggest industry focus within a couple of years. May 2, 4:48 a.m. PDT IBM gives peek at blade workstation IBM Corp. is developing a blade workstation, set to hit the market later this year, that moves the workstation from under a desk into the data center. May 1, 8:56 a.m. PDT Rolling out a startup a day Tomorrow is May Day -- a festival that is freighted with meaning, whether you're celebrating spring and earthly renewal, observing pagan rituals, or even reveling in politics. Personally, I like to think of May as a time of fresh starts, as in, "I may finally begin that project this month." April 30, 3:00 a.m. PDT HP blends Mercury, Openview software Did HP swallow Mercury, or did Mercury swallow HP? April 24, 7:55 a.m. PDT Sun, Fujitsu and Hitachi freshen server lines Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu are introducing new servers Tuesday that they jointly developed, while another server maker, Hitachi, is unveiling new blade servers. They each aim to address buyers' dual needs for computing power and energy efficiency. April 17, 6:05 a.m. PDT IBM puts blades on a low-carb(on) diet IBM Corp. is adding to its server lineup with new models featuring lower-wattage processors and flash memory instead of disks, all in the name of energy conservation. April 12, 3:15 p.m. PDT HP, IBM make new plays for the SMB market IBM and Hewlett-Packard, in separate announcements Tuesday, each used words such as "simple," "reliable," and "affordable" to describe how their new products serves the small-to-medium business market. April 10, 1:33 p.m. PDT Senator Boxer criticizes Bush at AMD event In a presentation before an audience of Silicon Valley technology industry and government officials, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer Monday criticized President George Bush for arguing that the U.S. can't regulate carbon emissions because it would hurt the U.S. economy when fast-growing economies like those of China and India do not control pollution. April 9, 1:45 p.m. PDT Virtual Iron joins HP partner program Virtual Iron Inc., the open source underdog to virtualization industry leader VMware Inc., has been chosen to join a Hewlett-Packard Co. partnership program and has landed the travel Web site Priceline.com Inc. as a customer. March 26, 4:17 a.m. PST Sun's strategy: Hit tech's biggest growth areas Sun says it's focusing its future strategy on areas of the technology industry poised for the strongest growth. March 23, 4:44 p.m. PST X86 still rules the server roost, but change is afoot Shipments of servers powered by x86 processors will not grow as fast as previously forecasted, but x86 will remain the dominant chip design, IDC said in a report Tuesday. March 20, 4:00 p.m. PST Secure64 builds DNS appliance with Itanium server Secure64 Software has released software to turn an Itanium 2 server into a secure DNS (domain name service) appliance it says can handle 100,000 queries per second. March 20, 6:47 a.m. PST APC's good Big Brother How’s the weather in your datacenter? Could you pull up a time line graph of temperature, humidity, and maybe even video footage of the room on a whim? Using APC’s NetBotz monitoring appliances and InfraStruXure Central management console, you could. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Tyan packs AMD chips into latest Typhoon Tyan Computer has expanded its line of powerful Tyan PSC workgroup servers, more commonly known by the name Typhoon, with the addition of a model based on processors from AMD. March 17, 1:10 a.m. PST Intel to release more efficient quad-core Xeons Intel Corp. quad-core microprocessors that work at an energy-efficient 50 watts per processor will officially be on the market starting Monday, according to the company. March 11, 2:40 a.m. PST Daylight-saving time a nuisance, but no Y2K Timed stock market trades will go awry. Manufacturing lines will grind to a halt. Perplexed executives will hold court before empty conference rooms. These are just a few of the doomsday scenarios that have been tossed out in advance of daylight-saving time, which has been bumped up by two weeks this year by order of the U.S. Congress. March 7, 8:30 a.m. PST The Green Grid gets going Pleas to improve datacenter power-efficiency tend to be vague: Consolidate to fewer and more efficient systems; use virtualization to allocate resources based on need; and choose microprocessors, infrastructure components, and system architectures that are built with power conservation as a key objective. March 7, 3:00 a.m. PST Partners prompt Oracle's multicore price change In response to requests from some of its distribution partners, Oracle has changed the licensing pricing for some of its lower-end multicore servers in order to be more competitive with database rival Microsoft. March 5, 11:44 a.m. PST More IT war stories Off the Record, the real-world slice of life that graces the last page of InfoWorld, is one of our most popular columns. I know this from reader surveys and from all the e-mail I receive about it. As reader Roland Sickenberger put it recently, “It’s my favorite part of the magazine, kind of like a ‘Dilbert come to life’ thing.” March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Server market revenue highest since 2000 Swelling demand for high-end systems in the fourth quarter pushed the global server industry to its highest annual revenue since the market peaked in 2000 as IBM and Hewlett-Packard held onto their top rankings. February 27, 10:54 a.m. PST HP moves to simplify datacenter setup Hewlett-Packard has begun shipping a new product that the company thinks will give it an edge over rival IBM in the market for blade servers. February 27, 4:14 a.m. PST Tech heavyweights tackle datacenter power shortage The IT industry's thirst for energy is growing exponentially, far outpacing the supply of reliable, clean power. Now a group of leading IT firms has banded together to try to head off an impending energy crisis in the datacenter. February 26, 7:00 a.m. PST At 25, Sun struggles to reinvent itself Developers by the thousands flocked to the International Convention Center in Hyderabad, India last week as Sun Microsystems kicked off the second leg of its world-spanning series of Tech Days conferences. The theme of the event was "shape your future" -- and indeed, no slogan could be more appropriate for Sun, its developers, and its partners. February 26, 3:05 a.m. PST Gartner: x86 server sales growth slowed in Q4 Sales growth for x86 servers slowed in the fourth quarter of 2006 as buyers adopted virtualization technology and waited for quad-core processors, according to a Gartner report released Thursday. February 22, 3:33 p.m. PST Avaya to add VoIP to Google Apps Avaya said on Thursday that it will develop communications solutions for small business that combine Google's updated Apps Premier Edition suite of Web applications with its own IP telephony technology. February 22, 8:54 a.m. PST Gauging Net consumption However it is that urban myths get started, it’s kind of a bummer when one of them gets dispelled. A couple years ago, for example, a Chinese astronaut went into space and debunked the myth that the Great Wall is visible from up there. February 22, 3:00 a.m. PST 12 crackpot tech ideas that could transform the enterprise Technologies that push the envelope of the plausible capture our curiosity almost as quickly as the would-be crackpots who dare to concoct them become targets of our derision. February 19, 3:00 a.m. PST HP unveils new Integrity servers, Unix OS Hewlett-Packard is introducing a long-awaited upgrade to its Unix operating system and launching new, affordable Integrity servers in a direct challenge to rival products from IBM and Sun Microsystems. February 15, 4:39 a.m. PST IBM unveils servers for Linux consolidation IBM Corp. on Wednesday unveiled three server offerings aimed at helping companies of all sizes consolidate Web-tier Linux servers in their IT environments. February 14, 9:50 a.m. PST IBM continues to simplify mainframe IBM Corp. is releasing more software to make it easier to program, manage and administer its mainframes in an ongoing bid to attract more customers to purchase its big iron hardware instead of high-end servers. February 13, 10:10 a.m. PST The making of an IT professional They don’t call it “lost wages” for nothing. In 2003, after a spectacularly unsuccessful stay in Vegas, I came back to Pittsburgh with no money and no job leads. I had been trying to break into IT, but my job skills were not that strong. I had taught myself to program, and I could design a Web site. But I had very little experience with servers or network administration. February 6, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM names new manager for x86 server business IBM has named a 23-year company veteran as the new general manager of its System x server business, replacing Susan Whitney, who retired after 35 years with IBM. February 5, 5:54 a.m. PST IBM eyes expanded water cooling for datacenters IBM researchers are counting on a 40-year-old technology to keep modern, state-of-the-art datacenters running cool and allow companies to squeeze more computing power from the electricity they consume. February 5, 5:23 a.m. PST AMD not feeling heat of Intel breakthrough Advanced Micro Devices is undaunted by rival Intel’s recent headline-grabbing announcements of 45-nm (nanometer) processing technology and a deal to supply Xeon chips to Sun Microsystems. February 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Women in technology: A call to action A quick scan of almost any IT department -- from the trenches to the corner office -- confirms it: Women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed. To be sure, opportunity for women in technology has advanced in the past few decades, as have education initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field, but for every woman rising to prominence or embarking on a profession in IT, there seems to be another opting out of her career in technology. January 29, 3:03 a.m. PST Back to school: Getting girls into IT Despite the success of various education initiatives in the past several years, there’s little doubt that the shortage of women in technology begins on the playground. As such, many industry leaders and experts believe the long-term solution to the gender imbalance in IT lies in women technologists going back to school -- way back, to high schools and even elementary schools to mentor young girls, who too often give up on math and science at an early age. January 29, 3:02 a.m. PST Activism provides competitive advantage for IT Encountering another woman working in technology was a rare event for me when I started out in IT many years ago. In the years since, women have made significant strides, sometimes against great odds, proving their mettle as both tech execs and engineers. January 29, 3:01 a.m. PST Gender crisis in IT You don’t need a degree in statistics to recognize that IT is a men’s club. Just walk the floor of any tech conference or, in all likelihood, your own office — XY chromosomes everywhere you look. January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST Ditching AMD is just business for Schwartz If nothing else, Intel’s reversal of AMD’s exclusive contract to supply CPUs to Sun Microsystems shows just how far some CEOs are willing to go on the first date. January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST Update: Sun server deal with Intel likely Sun Microsystems may start buying server chips from Intel in a deal that could be announced Monday, according to media reports. January 22, 8:53 a.m. PST Unisys untangles chargeback mess in IT Unisys is introducing a software suite that, among other things, automates the process of billing departments for computing time in a virtual environment. January 22, 7:07 a.m. PST The smart business of diversity Carly Fiorina served as CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, the first woman to run a Fortune 20 company. After she was ousted, along with a $21 million exit package, Fiorina did what a lot of us would do if we had millions of dollars in the bank and some time on our hands: She wrote a book. In Tough Choices, published in October, Fiorina talks about rising to the top of a male-dominated culture. Fiorina spoke with InfoWorld correspondent Carmen Nobel for our upcoming feature on the issues women face in IT. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Blade server shootout: Dell vs. HP vs. Sun Dawn broke over Diamondhead on Oahu as I shrugged off my jetlag and drove to the Advanced Network Computing Lab at the University of Hawaii. It was a beautiful Saturday morning, but there was to be no lying on the beach today. By the time 6 p.m. rolled around, Brian Chee and I had uncrated half a dozen huge shipping containers; eaten more than our share of sushi; installed three out of four blade chassis; broken four drill bits, one window pane, and a coffee press; and Brian’s eyebrow had finally stopped bleeding from a brief but violent altercation with the business end of L6-20 plug. January 15, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft Compute Cluster OS now on SGI servers Silicon Graphics (SGI) is now offering servers running Windows CCS (Compute Cluster Server) 2003 to make it more competitive in the HPC (high-performance computing) market. January 11, 3:14 p.m. PST Enterprises take a back seat at MacWorld Apple's consumer electronics products are getting all the attention at Macworld this week, but enterprise customers claim not to feel slighted. January 11, 10:26 a.m. PST > Hardware > Platforms |
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