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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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Hardware: Multicore rolls on For observers of the microprocessor sweepstakes, 2006 will be remembered as the year the empire struck back, the green CPU grew, multicore trickled down, Power shifted, a new public SPARC was lit, and an industry-altering merger put coprocessors, and AMD’s marketing, back in business. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Talking R&D with HP's CTO As the IT industry changes to keep pace with convergence and the rise of emerging markets, vendors like Hewlett-Packard Co. have to stay one step ahead of the curve to remain competitive. At HP, the job of directing that effort falls to Shane Robison, the company's executive vice president and chief strategy and technology officer, who is responsible for overseeing the company's annual US$3.5 billion research and development (R&D) budget. December 20, 4:51 a.m. PST Consolidation power tools Can software management tools help bring your consolidation initiative under control? It depends. Certainly solutions abound that can help with one of the first steps: identifying and analyzing the hardware, software, and infrastructure you already have in place. November 20, 3:00 a.m. PST Intel bids for rebound with quad-core chips Can there be too much of a good thing? When it comes to Intel’s effort to claw its way out of an earnings hole, the answer is no. Despite a paucity of software that can even use the extra horsepower, the microchip giant last week released its quad-core Xeon 5300 processor, capable of running 50 percent faster than its predecessor, the “Woodcrest” dual-core Xeon 5100. November 20, 3:00 a.m. PST HP brings its quad-core servers to market Tuesday's debut of Intel quad-core-powered computers from Hewlett-Packard completes the introduction of quad-core hardware from major computer and server manufacturers. November 14, 4:41 a.m. PST IBM, 3Com team up on IP telephony for SMBs IBM is collaborating with 3Com to put IP (Internet Protocol) telephony in an IBM server so small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) can make phone calls more cheaply without adding extra servers to their networks. October 23, 4:34 a.m. PDT Sun thinks inside the box for datacenter system To help enterprises with expanding datacenter needs, Sun Microsystems decided to think inside the box. October 17, 5:22 a.m. PDT State: We have evidence to charge HP execs A day after Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) chairman Patricia Dunn promised to step down for her role in a spy scandal, the state of California is continuing to investigate the actions of HP officials and the private investigators they used. September 13, 4:14 p.m. PDT Microsoft may have multicore price edge Microsoft Corp. could have an early advantage over competitors IBM Corp. and Oracle Corp. as some software companies begin shifting pricing to accommodate servers with multicore processors, analysts said. August 8, 1:43 p.m. PDT CA concludes stock options probe, finalizes results CA Inc. moved a step closer late Monday to putting some of its troubled financial past behind it with the conclusion of an internal investigation into the granting of employee stock options. August 1, 1:28 p.m. PDT AMD's ATI purchase will yield long-term payout AMD’s planned $5.4 billion merger with Canada-based graphics chip vendor ATI Technologies prompted some indignant sniffing about “desperation” among the technology sector’s chattering class. That kind of second-guessing is natural, especially on the heels of AMD’s decision to cut prices in half on some of its PC processors, which prompted similar action from Intel. But no matter what you’ve read, AMD’s CPU price cuts and its acquisition of ATI are not signs that the company is on a downward slide. July 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM pushes Power5+ to the high-end IBM Corp. aims to turn up the heat on Unix server competitors, but turn down the heat in the data center when it upgrades two high-end System p5 servers next month. July 25, 9:57 a.m. PDT Server vendors optimistic about Itanium 2 Defying skeptical analysts, server vendors including Silicon Graphics (SGI) and Fujitsu Siemens Computers plan to win new customers by selling machines based on Intel’s "Montecito" dual-core Itanium 2 chip, due to launch Tuesday. July 17, 1:52 p.m. PDT House passes bill on IT energy-use study Sun Microsystems Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) praised the U.S. House of Representatives for passing legislation Wednesday that authorizes a federal government study on the energy consumption of computer data centers. July 13, 9:02 a.m. PDT Sun's shoots Opteron servers at data center Sun Microsystems Inc. launched three Opteron-based servers Tuesday, positioning them as midrange servers to be used for network computing in data centers. July 11, 5:20 a.m. PDT SGI aims to exit bankruptcy in September Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) has filed an amended reorganization plan and hopes to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September, the company said Wednesday. July 5, 10:43 a.m. PDT Intel bets on Woodcrest Chip Stung by sinking profits in recent quarters, Intel announced two strategic moves this week, launching the dual-core Xeon Processor 5100 series server chip and selling off its sluggish line of communication chips. July 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT In Brief: HP to fund high-end lab in Singapore Hewlett-Packard and Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A-STAR) will set up a high-end computing lab in the Southeast Asian city-state under an agreement announced Tuesday. June 15, 4:59 a.m. PDT Computex: Intel puts chip set on the table The days of the shiny gold bunny suits are long gone at chipmaker Intel, what with the dot-com bubble burst, reports of supply problems in key product lines, and stiff competition from Advanced Micro Devices. June 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Typhoon billed as 'personal supercomputer' Billed as a "personal supercomputer," Tyan Computer's upcoming Typhoon server aims to bring greater computing power to small workgroups. June 8, 5:25 a.m. PDT VMware: New ESX rocks the datacenter VMware on Monday launched the first major upgrade of its flagship server virtualization and management software in nearly two years along with several new software tools it says will help IT administrators wring more savings out of enterprise datacenters. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Fabric7 promises high-end servers at low cost Server virtualization technologies are getting monstrous amounts of buzz because they encourage cost savings, permit greater deployment flexibility, and increase utilization rates. Today, most virtualization technologies focus on software implementations, but a fledgling server vendor called Fabric7 is taking a different, hardware-based approach. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Dell to fall short of Q1 goal Under market-share pressure from Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), Dell Inc. warned Monday that it would miss its forecast for quarterly profits and barely match its lowest estimate for revenue. May 9, 10:03 a.m. PDT New CEO could sharpen Sun's focus Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy’s decision last week to step aside after two decades at the helm of the legendary Silicon Valley company could throw open the doors to rapid change at the company, as new CEO Jonathan Schwartz focuses Sun’s resources on technologies that may pull it out of its prolonged slump. May 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT The real downside of a Fortune 500 analyst job I graduated at the top of my class with a degree in IT and several appealing job offers. After scoping out my options, I signed on as a systems analyst at a manufacturing plant for a Fortune 500 company, where I was tasked with supporting a real-time production reporting system developed by the corporate IT staff. March 14, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco posts profit, revenue growth in Q2 Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday reported gains in both earnings and revenue for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2006, citing growing adoption of converged voice, video and data networks. February 7, 5:06 p.m. PST HP weighs in further on data center heat issues Hewlett-Packard Co. announced three products Monday designed to help enterprise users deal with power management difficulties. The products, due to ship Feb. 6, include a water-cooled heat exchanger unit which can be attached to the side of a server rack. January 30, 11:01 a.m. PST Stratus doubles up on the ftServer 4300 It's true: Two is definitely better than one, at least when you're talking about high availability. For most server manufacturers, that means two or more identical servers in some form of cluster. Outside the clustering code, these servers are singular entities without a direct relationship with one another. January 19, 3:00 a.m. PST CES tech news and gossip -- from Google to Stevie Wonder Attending the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is like spending the week with 130,000 former college roommates. It's great on the first day, reliving old times and laughing about mutual acquaintances. But by the weekend, you start remembering all the times they stiffed you for beer, and the time they promised to get you a job at their company but gave it to the pretty girl down the hall. January 11, 11:15 a.m. PST Intel makes a leap, Grokster snares IPs My tongue tastes like I've been sucking on an exhaust pipe, my feet throb like an outboard motor, and my brain feels like Charo has been doing the cuchi-cuchi dance on my forehead. This can only mean one thing: I’ve just returned from four days at CES in Vegas. And it was quite a show. At least, I think it was quite a show. The details are a mite fuzzy. January 6, 3:00 a.m. PST A chilling IT holiday tale It was an intensely cold Midwestern December, and there I was driving 120 miles through hard-blowing snow on icy roads to reach a customer whose mission-critical server was suffering with a failing power supply. I was a field engineer at the time for a national service company, and the local guy who normally covered that customer was away at a Solaris training session, which is how I found myself skidding through the snow three days before Christmas. December 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Forrester index finds US tech sector healthy for now The U.S. technology industry has recovered from a recession of 2001 and 2002 and is about as healthy as it's been in three years, according to a new tech sector economic index released Monday. December 12, 9:49 a.m. PST Taking steps toward 64-bit processing A growing number of volume systems on the market today are incorporating the new 64-bit architectures from AMD and Intel. When you buy new hardware, you’re part of the 64-bit revolution almost by default. But you still have a choice to make: Should you flip on those extra 32 bits by running 64-bit versions of your operating systems and applications? December 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft ships Windows Server 2003 R2 A long-awaited interim update to the current version of Microsoft's Windows Server OS, called Windows Server 2003 R2, is finally ready. December 12, 3:00 a.m. PST U.K. bank glitch leaves some customers stranded Some customers of the U.K.'s National Westminster Bank (NatWest) were unable to make store purchases or withdraw cash Saturday afternoon thanks to a glitch in the bank's computers. December 5, 4:35 a.m. PST Microsoft shows prominently at Supercomputing '05 Microsoft's presence at Supercomputing '05 in Seattle last week was unmistakable. The conference, which spotlights innovations in HPC (high-performance computing), featured more than 200 exhibitors, including HPC stalwarts such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SGI, and Sun Microsystems. Despite the fact that Microsoft is not really associated with supercomputing, the company seemed bent on keeping a high profile at SC05: Microsoft was a major sponsor of the show, and Bill Gates was a keynote speaker. Also, Microsoft's booth was easily the largest on the floor, holding down the prime real estate at the middle of the show, requiring all attendees to pass through it as they wended their way between exhibit halls. November 21, 3:00 a.m. PST Is it time to scrap your Big Iron? See correction at end of article November 17, 3:00 a.m. PST When mainframes make sense Not everyone sees the mainframe as a relic of the past. In 1996, motor manufacturer Baldor Electric, beguiled by promises of lower costs and the desire to move to the SAP platform for all its CRM and ERP transactions, left the mainframe in favor of a Windows environment. According to Mark Shackelford, Baldor's IS director, the company was very unhappy with the results. November 17, 3:00 a.m. PST Fujitsu to sell PrimeQuest servers through EDS Fujitsu has reached an agreement with Electronic Data Systems (EDS) under which EDS will resell Fujitsu's mission-critical servers and other computer hardware as part of its service packages, Fujitsu said Friday. November 4, 4:23 a.m. PST Wall Street Beat: Sun hypes, Lexmark implodes Shares of Lexmark International Inc. (ticker symbol LXK on the New York Stock Exchange) plunged Tuesday to close down 29 percent after the printer maker warned that its third-quarter financial results were grim. Lexmark fell vastly short of expectations: per-share earnings were half what it had forecast earlier, and revenue, rather than growing slightly, declined at least 4 percent from last year's third quarter. October 6, 3:49 p.m. PDT McNealy: Galaxy 'very critical' to Sun's future Sun Microsystems Inc. is counting on a new line of servers based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD's) 64-bit Opteron processor to guarantee the future success of its Solaris operating system, according to Scott McNealy, the company's chairman and chief executive officer. September 13, 1:35 a.m. PDT A Galaxy of opportunity Back in the day, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim made his mark pioneering single-board workstations and servers, an engineering feat that required a new take on integration. Sun’s “pizza box” workstations earned the company a reputation as an innovator. Now, thanks to Sun’s acquisition of Bechtolsheim’s server startup Kealia, innovation through integration could once again become Sun’s hallmark. September 12, 4:00 a.m. PDT Sun plans Galaxy launch on Sept. 12 Sun Microsystems plans to introduce a new line of servers, code-named Galaxy, in New York City on Sept. 12, company officials said. With these new servers, which will use Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron microprocessors, Sun may be attempting to regain some of the market might it once wielded. September 6, 4:37 a.m. PDT Behemoth vs. blade Generally, you can expect a giant to triumph over a platoon of munchkins. Maybe that’s why enterprises continue to favor hulking, eight-way servers over blades. September 5, 4:00 a.m. PDT 64-bit Windows opens to an empty house Linux can't run roughshod over the 64-bit x86 landscape anymore. Microsoft has now shipped its 64-bit editions of Windows -- a lineup that includes Windows XP and a handful of varieties of Windows Server 2003 -- for AMD and Intel 64-bit x86 (Microsoft calls these x64, collectively) as well as Itanium 2 chips. If you weren't aware of this debut, don't be surprised. Most Microsoft customers don't know what 64-bit Windows is, whether they need it, or where to buy it. July 25, 5:00 a.m. PDT Sun plans to make all its software free Stanford, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems president and COO Jonathan Schwartz on Thursday cited the company's plans to eventually offer all of its software for free as a way to build communities around its technologies. July 21, 12:09 p.m. PDT IBM boosts search in WebSphere Commerce Server IBM next month will ship new versions of its WebSphere Commerce Express server aimed at both large and small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs). The versions will come with a search-engine optimization feature that enables spidering technology within popular search engines, such as Google and Yahoo. July 20, 10:00 a.m. PDT Lenovo, Elitegroup to work together on servers China's Lenovo Group will work with a Taiwanese company to design and source certain server parts, another sign of Lenovo's ability to create new business from the PC division it bought from IBM earlier this year. July 15, 4:50 a.m. PDT Getting to the bottom of AMD v. Intel Pardon me if my writing's a little raspy. I learned yesterday that I'm the subparent of a beautiful baby antitrust lawsuit. I've been up all night looking at pictures. Oh, look! He's got my puns! One day old and this guy's already mean as a stepped-on snake, just like me and his dozens of parents. But right now he's my boy; I've got him to myself. Who's my little monopoly buster? Are you gonna bring choice back to commodity computing? Yes, you are. What? Gasp, his first words! "Tre-ble da-ma-ges." I need a moment. Look at the ads in the rest of the magazine for a second. July 6, 5:00 a.m. PDT Exclusive: IBM deals a pair of powerhouses With its new eServer OpenPower 710 and eServer p5 510, IBM has delivered two state-of-the-art enterprise servers that can handle transactions galore. And these products sport what is probably the industry's most advanced microprocessor for server consolidation, fault-tolerant apps, and floating-point-intensive computation. July 4, 5:00 a.m. PDT Sun's HR chief also to head up European ops Sun Microsystems is shaking up its European operations, creating a new position for a company veteran to oversee the region. June 22, 1:21 p.m. PDT Iwill, PathScale tackle server latency June 2, 4:47 a.m. PDT HP sees Linux-NonStop server connection NEW ORLEANS - Hewlett-Packard (HP) may soon support a version of the Linux operating system designed for its NonStop line of fault-tolerant servers, an HP executive hinted Wednesday. June 1, 12:21 p.m. PDT Japan aims for world's fastest supercomputer Japan will begin research in June to build a supercomputer capable of crunching numbers about 30 times faster than IBM's Blue Gene/ L, the world's current fastest supercomputer, the Japanese government said Tuesday. May 31, 2:26 a.m. PDT HP Integrity servers to get virtualization boost Hewlett-Packard (HP) is putting the finishing touches on a new release of its Unix operating system that will deliver a long-awaited virtualization capability to the company's Integrity line of servers. The update will be available by the beginning of July as a patch release to the company's HP-UX 11iv2 operating system. May 25, 9:39 a.m. PDT HP readies final update to PA-RISC line Hewlett-Packard is set to begin shipping the final processor upgrade to its HP 9000 line of Unix servers. The new chip, called the PA-8900, is expected to be introduced at a press event held at the ENSA@WORK - HP Enterprise Forum in Copenhagen on May 31, where HP also will announce enhancements to its NonStop fault-tolerant servers, according to people familiar with the announcement. May 24, 5:33 p.m. PDT HP's 4U ProLiant DL585 is packed with Opteron power The AMD Opteron x86_64 platform was first available only from smaller server vendors, but now Opteron-based servers are available from nearly every major server vendor, with the notable exception of Dell. Hewlett-Packard was one of the first big boys to play in the x86_64 pond, and thus far it’s been good for the company. May 23, 5:00 a.m. PDT IBM worker's day of action off to a slow start A worldwide day of action by IBM workers and unions in protest over the company's planned job cuts got off to a slow start with no reported action at company facilities in Asia-Pacific as of late morning. May 23, 4:04 a.m. PDT The great PC rip and replace Were it not for AMD’s reinvention of the x86 system for Opteron and Athlon XP, I wouldn’t be surprised to find that most IT buyers have the location of Dell’s “go to checkout” button programmed into their fingers. The lack of a need to do a gear-grinding platform shift, much less a retroactive rip and replace, is the core attraction of x86 systems. At its heart, a 32-bit Xeon is surprisingly comparable to a one-chip Pentium Pro. May 18, 5:00 a.m. PDT Sun pumps up overseas outsourcing plans Sun is scaling back its vaunted Silicon Valley engineering group and expanding its facilities around the world to save on costs. May 6, 3:01 p.m. PDT Ballmer, McNealy to give update on Sun-Microsoft pact Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Ballmer and Sun Microsystems Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy will host an event in mid-May to detail progress the companies have made since the signing of a 10-year collaboration agreement last year. April 21, 4:49 p.m. PDT Despite dual core, AMD still out with Dell Yet again AMD is poised to beat Intel to market with cutting-edge chip technology. But even though some customers are calling for Dell to use AMD processors, Dell -- the lone holdout among hardware makers -- has a strong incentive to pass. With the launch of AMD's dual-core Opteron processors expected this week, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems are preparing to unveil the second generation of their Opteron servers. April 18, 5:00 a.m. PDT Sun joins forces with China's Dawning Sun Microsystems has teamed up with Chinese high-performance server maker Dawning Information Industry in a broad partnership that both companies hope will help them better meet the needs of Chinese users. April 8, 4:56 a.m. PDT Fujitsu launches new Itanium servers Fujitsu unveiled two new servers on Tuesday designed to bring mainframe-class features to Windows and Linux users. More than two years in development, the systems, called the PrimeQuest 480 and PrimeQuest 440, represent Fujitsu's first attempt at building high-end systems using Intel's Itanium 2 microprocessor. April 6, 4:39 a.m. PDT Intel imparts 64-bit Xeon MP High-end Xeon servers have entered the era of 64-bit computing. Last week Intel unwrapped the highly anticipated 64-bit version of its Xeon MP chip. The new chips, which come in five configurations, were unveiled as part of a new line of components for multiprocessor servers. The line also includes the new E8500 chip set. April 4, 6:00 a.m. PDT HP jumps on 64-bit Xeon wagon Hewlett-Packard wasted no time throwing its support behind Intel's 64-bit Xeon MP (Multi Processor) chip, unwrapping on Tuesday two ProLiant servers that are powered by the new processor. March 29, 10:00 a.m. PST Intel: Hardware helps Web services become reality SANTA CLARA, CALIF. - As hardware companies like Intel usher in a new era of mobile computing, software developers will need to change their applications to reflect new ways of accessing corporate data, Intel's chief software strategist said at a software development conference here Thursday. March 17, 4:29 p.m. PST HP to ship first servers with smaller SAS hard drives Hewlett-Packard will soon begin shipping its ProLiant servers with smaller, 2.5-inch (6.35 cm) hard drives based on the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hardware interface, which could allow it to cram more drives into each machine, the company announced Monday. March 14, 4:43 a.m. PST It's big, but not a big mess HANOVER, GERMANY - From MP3 players to mainframe computers, this year's Cebit has it all. But the world's biggest computer trade fair has avoided becoming the unfocused sprawl that led Comdex to its downfall, visitors here said this week. March 11, 11:06 a.m. PST Intel, VMware team on virtualization Intel and VMware helped push virtualization technology further into the limelight last week by announcing plans to work together to optimize VMware’s server product with Intel’s future chip-level virtualization technologies. March 7, 6:00 a.m. PST Microsoft will reap the spoils of the AMD-Intel chip wars It's like two big dogs fighting over a bone while a little dog sits by watching as it happily gnaws on the prize. Of course, in this case, the little dog is actually just as big as the other two, if not bigger, and the bone really isn't just one bone; it's … hell, I'm no good at similes. March 4, 3:00 p.m. PST IBM woos SMBs at PartnerWorld IBM last week unveiled a number of new initiatives aimed at courting SMBs at its PartnerWorld Conference in Las Vegas. IBM has created a special team within its Business Consulting Services group to focus on SMB customers, and its Global Services group plans to spend $300 million on a number of channel programs also targeted at the SMB space. March 4, 3:00 p.m. PST Intel airs multicore plans and new brand name SAN FRANCISCO - Intel's vaunted Pentium 4 brand name, which has denoted its flagship desktop processor since 2000, will be retired with the launch of the company's first dual-core desktop processor, Intel said Tuesday at the Spring Intel Developer Forum here. March 1, 11:47 a.m. PST IBM tops server vendors for 2004 With Unix sales from rivals HP and Sun Microsystems slipping, IBM was the top vendor in the $49 billion worldwide server market in 2004, according to research released by Gartner on Wednesday. February 23, 6:14 p.m. PST LinuxWorld: Top players take it higher At the annual LinuxWorld Conference & Expo this week, top-tier vendors in the Linux space will roll out a raft of enterprise products, with a few vendors laying out road maps for pushing their open source strategies higher in the enterprise. February 14, 3:00 p.m. PST IBM rolls out five 64-bit Xeon servers IBM on Monday rolled out a handful of beefed-up 64-bit Intel servers that feature a 2MB cache, adding 18 percent to the systems' overall performance. The additions also contain support for two new technologies, namely Demand Based Switching (DBS) and Execute Disable Bit (XD). February 14, 6:40 a.m. PST Linux keeps its eyes on the enterprise At the annual gathering this week at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in Boston, top-tier vendors from the Linux Nation will roll out a raft of enterprise-class products and services. A few will lay out road maps for how they plan to kick their open source strategies up even higher into the enterprise. February 14, 3:00 a.m. PST HP partners see opportunity in Fiorina's departure SAN FRANCISCO - With Carly Fiorina's ouster at Hewlett-Packard (HP), some partners are hoping for a more channel-friendly and customer-focused leader at the company. February 11, 12:50 p.m. PST > Hardware > Server hardware > Platforms > Server hardware |
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