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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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Apple eyes the enterprise at WWDC Apple’s WorldWide Developers Conference (WWDC) is no Mac pep rally. It’s a gathering of geeks ready for a deep dive into a pool of technologies. But WWDC also has a tradition of new product intros, and last week was no exception, with two major hardware offerings and a tantalizing look at Mac OS X 10.5, code-named Leopard. August 11, 11:45 a.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 Update: IBM injects more servers with AMD chips IBM Corp. said Tuesday it will add two blades and three rack servers to its family of computers powered by processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. August 1, 11:30 a.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 to base software prices on processor performance IBM plans one day to charge for its software based on how fast it runs, not the number of processor cores on which it's running. The company announced licensing changes for its middleware Tuesday -- although the change will have no immediate effect on pricing. July 25, 12:26 p.m. PDT Intel in tough fight, even with Montecito It wasn’t so long ago that Intel stood confidently astride the entire tech sector, superstar maker of the microprocessors that drive innovation. But like Hollywood celebrities who suddenly find their star overshadowed, Intel has been engaged in some aggressive liposuction recently, making surprising sacrifices to slim down and regain its stature. In just the last few weeks, Intel sold its communications and application processor businesses to Marvell and made cuts to its management staff. July 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM unwraps server for small biz ERP In a move to reassure small-business customers that it plans to support Oracle Corp.'s software products for years to come, IBM Corp. announced a server package on Tuesday. July 11, 5:36 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 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 Ubuntu ventures into enterprise Linux According to Wikipedia, the African word "Ubuntu," from which the Ubuntu Linux distribution takes its name, has many possible translations. Among them: "humanity towards others," "I am because we are," or "A person is a person because of other persons." June 5, 3:00 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 AMD, Intel negotiate to keep sensitive testimony secret Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has asked a Delaware judge to protect the trade secrets of PC vendors so they can testify in the company's long-running antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp. May 31, 9:58 a.m. PDT Hack Tales: Virtualization helps swing an Exchange upgrade A while ago I was asked to help a customer upgrade an aged Exchange 2000 installation to new hardware and Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Standard Edition. My customer secured the new server loaded up with SBS 2003; my job was to integrate it into the existing AD (Active Directory) forest and move all the users’ e-mail into the new Exchange system. May 29, 3:00 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 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 Sun unwraps new range of grid-ready Ultra workstations Sun Microsystems unwrapped a new family of Ultra workstations Monday -- the Ultra 20, Ultra 40, and Ultra 45. Two of the three new machines -- the Ultra 40 and the Ultra 45 -- come bundled with Sun's grid software, while all three systems ship with some of the company's developer tools. January 30, 7:58 a.m. PST Analyst predicts Dell Opteron servers in 2006 A financial analyst issued a report Tuesday predicting that Dell will once and for all drop its exclusive use of Intel chips in 2006 and introduce servers based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processors. January 10, 4:30 p.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 Sun offers 60-day Niagara server trial Sun Microsystems Inc. is offering users the chance to try out one of its Sun Fire T2000 "Niagara" servers for 60 days at no cost. The offer is shorter than the 90-day "Try It Before You Buy It" promotion the company originally proposed earlier this month when it launched the servers. December 20, 6:47 a.m. PST How will Dell offset the loss of Intel’s generosity? By now, we should be enjoying a true commodity market in which the pricing trends of x86 CPUs track those of other PC components and semiconductors. Today, we’re celebrating the $500 PC, even though economic forces should have that price closer to $200. With chip manufacturing capacity and yields being as high as they are, all but the most advanced x86 processors should be readily affordable. They should be as cheap as light bulbs. Well, designer store light bulbs. December 14, 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 Scaling your applications to 64-bit computing At Microsoft’s annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in April 2005, Bill Gates predicted that 64-bit hardware, operating systems, and software would “transform the way we work and play.” Systems using 64-bit processors would be mainstream by the end of 2006, he said, and 64-bit computing at the server level would happen more quickly than any other platform changeover in the past. December 12, 3:00 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 Software group seeks role in Microsoft case The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has asked to be allowed to make arguments against Microsoft Corp. in part of its appeal against last year's antitrust ruling against it by the European Union's competition authority, the European Commission, an FSFE attorney said Thursday. November 25, 12:00 a.m. PST IBM unveils first Power5+ servers IBM released the first servers based on its new 64-bit Power5+ processors last week. Aimed at SMBs, the new machines include a quad-core server, the System p5 550Q; and a new 1U rack server, the System p5 505. October 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT 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 IBM and Apple swap server strategies I recently had two conference calls with two titans. One was with IBM about its brand-new server, the other with Apple about the future of its high-end server business. October 5, 4:00 a.m. PDT The industry cools down Like the pull of gravity on distant stars and planets, which scientists say may someday lead to a reversal of the big bang, the Wintel architecture that spawned a thousand rivals is suddenly pulling everything back into its orbit. October 4, 4:00 a.m. PDT New IBM SMB servers boast increased reliability IBM is adding faster hot-swappable hard drives and redundant power supplies to its low-end server products for small and medium businesses, the company is expected to announce Tuesday. September 27, 4:26 a.m. PDT Soul of a new standard server Andy Bechtolsheim, one among the group of Stanford University students who founded Sun Microsystems, invented the original Sun workstation and guided many subsequent computers into production. Bechtolsheim left Sun in 1995 to start Granite Systems, a Gigabit Ethernet networking company that Cisco Systems later acquired; he then went on to co-found Kealia, an advanced server startup that Sun acquired last year. Since then, as Sun's chief architect and senior vice president of network systems, Bechtolsheim has been busy designing the AMD Opteron-based Sun Fire x64 servers -- better known by their code name, Galaxy. (See InfoWorld's review of a preproduction version of the Galaxy here.) Just prior to the Galaxy launch, Bechtolsheim talked with InfoWorld Test Center Chief Technologist Tom Yager about Galaxy's design, Sun's server strategy, CPU architectures, virtualization, and the future of Sparc. (See Yager's analysis of the Galaxy here.) September 12, 4:00 a.m. PDT Update: Dell misses Q2 revenue guidance on lower prices Dell Inc. continued to run a very profitable business, at least for the PC industry, in its most recent operating period. However, the company fell short of analyst estimates for second-quarter revenue, citing a decrease in average selling prices, Dell announced Thursday. August 11, 2:58 p.m. PDT WebSphere Commerce soups up search spidering IBM next month will ship new versions of its WebSphere Commerce and Commerce Express servers aimed at both large and smaller businesses. The products will contain a search engine optimization capability that enables spidering technology within search engines such as Google and Yahoo. July 25, 5:00 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 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 Small biz first stop for Dell's dual-core server Dell is to start global shipments of its first dual-core server Monday. The PowerEdge SC430, an Intel-based machine, is aimed at small businesses. However, selling customers on the benefits of dual-core computing may initially prove something of an educational challenge, a company executive admitted. July 11, 11:00 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 High availability at the low end Although the Stratus ftServer W Series 2300 doesn’t deliver top-notch performance or provide much room to grow, it’s still worth the extra dough. Running the Standard Edition of Windows Server 2003, this entry-level Intel-based server integrates duplicate sets of system components on a single printed-circuit motherboard, offering high availability at an affordable price. June 20, 5:00 a.m. PDT Iwill, PathScale tackle server latency June 2, 4:47 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 Fujitsu upgrades PrimePower line Fujitsu Computer Systems is now shipping a faster version of its Sparc64 V processor with certain models of its PrimePower Unix servers. May 17, 5:43 a.m. PDT Q&A with Hector Ruiz on AMD’s future The past five years have not been easy for AMD CEO Hector Ruiz. But after racking up more than $1 billion in losses, his company finally turned things around in 2004. With the launch of its first dual-core Opteron processors late last month, AMD has the jump on rival Intel’s server chips, an area where AMD has been gaining momentum. Ruiz spoke with Tom Krazit and Robert McMillan of the IDG News Service. May 2, 5:00 a.m. PDT Intel's server group hopes customers stay the course Intel Corp.'s top server executive acknowledged the disparity between the server processor road maps of his company and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) Thursday, but said Intel should weather the storm based on its revitalized product line and a renewed focus on end users. April 29, 5:00 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 Update: IBM shows Q1 growth but falls short of forecasts IBM said its first-quarter earnings were $0.85 per share, below the $0.90 per share consensus forecast of analysts polled by Thomson First Call. Net income was $1.4 billion, on revenue of $22.9 billion, both up 3 percent from last year's first quarter. Analysts were expecting revenue of $23.6 billion. April 14, 4:54 p.m. PDT HP brings value to Itanium servers Who says the Itanium 2 processor is dead? Certainly not Hewlett-Packard, which has introduced a strong dual-processor server, the Integrity rx1620-2, into its enterprise lineup. HP, a co-inventor and longtime supporter of the processor, has done a fine job with the server, using a less-expensive version of the chip to keep costs down and leveraging much of its mass-market engineering capabilities from its ProLiant systems to provide solid management and respectable high-availability and scalability features. April 11, 5:00 a.m. PDT Sun outlines new Galaxy server family An internal document briefly available on Sun Microsystems's Web site has provided the first outline of its next-generation of servers based on Advanced Micro Devices's (AMD's) Opteron microprocessor. According to the document, a Portable Document Format (PDF) presentation created by Ambreesh Khanna, a chief technologist with Sun's US Client Solutions group, Sun plans to release four models of Galaxy servers by year's end. April 8, 3:15 p.m. PDT Friendster scales the network with open source Who says open source can’t measure up to commercial software for mission-critical applications? Far from being a mere quick fix or low-cost alternative, open source software is helping real-world companies solve their most pressing IT problems. April 4, 6:00 a.m. PDT 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 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 digs deep for iSeries development Signaling a deepened commitment to its venerable iSeries of servers, IBM on Friday announced plans to increase financial investments in developers dedicated to writing applications for iSeries-based mid-market users. February 25, 6:00 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 IBM delivers server with X3 architecture Claiming it represents a significant breakthrough in server-based computing, IBM on Tuesday debuted its first Intel system based on its X3 architecture along with a customized chip set that supports up to 32 single- or dual-core Xeon chips. February 22, 6:30 a.m. PST Sun's Opteron chief readying Galaxy of servers Sun Microsystems' chief Opteron server designer, Andy Bechtolsheim, heartily endorsed Advanced Micro Devices' current single-core and future dual-core chips as the future of Sun's volume computing business in a speech before attendees at Sun's Research and Education 2005 conference Wednesday, as he prepares to overhaul Sun's current designs featuring the chip. February 16, 4:26 p.m. PST HP to keep strategy, adjust focus on operations In the wake of Hewlett-Packard Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina’s resignation last week, most industry observers believe the first order of business for her successor will be to deal with a number of operational issues. February 14, 3:00 p.m. PST HP's customers can count on calls from Dell, IBM Transitional periods at IT companies are usually followed by fervent attempts on the part of that company's competitors to take advantage of the situation with jump in sales calls, promotions, and media spin. Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) customers can expect all three in the wake of Carly Fiorina's departure Wednesday, analysts said. February 9, 5:06 p.m. PST Fiorina steps down as HP CEO, chairman Carly Fiorina has resigned as chairman and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard, effective immediately, the company announced Wednesday. February 9, 6:34 a.m. PST Low-cost PowerOpen servers roll from IBM Hoping to pick off those users looking to consolidate aging servers, IBM on Monday rolled out two low-cost, two-way, Power5-based machines specifically tuned to run versions of Linux distributed by Novell and Red Hat January 24, 6:00 a.m. PST Microsoft readies BizTalk Server upgrades Microsoft by mid-2006 plans to release a new version of its BizTalk Server business integration software, offering support for SQL Server 2005 and simplified management, among other features. January 14, 3:17 p.m. PST Apple unveils server, storage Apple Computer will come out with product guns blazing at this week’s Macworld Conference & Expo, armed with several business and consumer offerings aimed at both the server and storage markets. January 10, 9:00 a.m. PST EBay initiative promotes electronics recycling LAS VEGAS - Ebay has brought together several technology industry heavyweights in an initiative to promote recycling of old computers and other consumer electronics hardware. The move also is an attempt by the industry to pre-empt further electronic waste legislation. January 6, 1:07 p.m. PST Startup takes new approach to server virtualization A little-known, Boston-area startup is beta-testing technology designed to let users quickly configure "virtual" multiprocessor systems out of inexpensive PC machines. Called Katana Technology, the 30-person company has not yet revealed details of its upcoming product, but appears to have developed a novel approach to consolidating data center resources. December 15, 11:22 a.m. PST Vendors make it tough for the little folks When you see the word “express” attached to a product line or a model name, it’s industry shorthand for products aimed at the SMB market. The formula for tailoring technology for SMBs is pretty consistent: SMB software is enterprise software with a limited number of client licenses thrown into the box and little, if any, capability of scaling. SMB hardware has limits on internal expansion and external scalability, and often places a lower priority on playing well with other vendors’ products. And whatever other differences may apply, support is the biggest difference between your $4,000 rack server and the other guy’s $6,000 rack server. November 26, 3:00 p.m. PST Linux server sales top $1 billion in Q3 Quarterly sales of servers running the Linux operating system topped $1 billion for the first time during the third quarter of 2004, analyst company IDC reported Wednesday. With year-over-year revenue from Linux server sales up 42.6 percent, Linux accounted for more than 9 percent of the $11.5 billion in servers sold worldwide during the quarter, which ended Sept. 30, the research firm said. November 24, 4:41 a.m. PST HP to spend $200M on layoffs Hewlett-Packard (HP) plans to spend $200 million over the next six months on staff reductions, the company said Tuesday in a regulatory filing. It did not specify in the filing which business areas the staffing cuts would affect. November 23, 9:01 a.m. PST Five Across introduces server, adds RSS to IM client Five Across has upgraded its workgroup instant messaging client by adding RSS support and developed its first workgroup instant messaging server, the Palo Alto, California company plans to announce Wednesday. November 17, 4:46 a.m. PST Update: HP server group sees profit in Q4 HP's net earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter, which included $136 million in after-tax adjustments, were $1.2 billion, or $0.41 per share. This exceeded analyst expectations of $0.37 per share compiled by Thomson First Call. HP's total revenues were also slightly ahead of Thomson's estimates, which had been $21.1 billion, according to a survey of 18 financial analysts. November 16, 5:05 p.m. PST Exclusive: Dell close to adopting AMD chips Dell president and CEO Kevin Rollins indicated that the company is actively considering including AMD processors in its server roster in the foreseeable future. November 11, 9:14 a.m. PST Virtual Server 2005 offers Windows upon Windows Microsoft’s Virtual Server 2005 is probably best viewed as a direct competitor to VMware’s well-entrenched GSX Server , but the degree to which Virtual Server integrates with other Microsoft server products puts it in a class of its own. November 5, 3:00 p.m. PST Sending software to do hardware's job The top-notch developers at VMware and Connectix (now Microsoft) have spent much of their time inventing intricate work-arounds for design shortcomings of the x86 architecture. But that needn’t be the case. When virtualization gets help from hardware, its performance skyrockets. Such hardware assistance is commonplace on mainframes and other big iron, but few today remember that Intel set the precedent for hardware virtualization support on x86 chips nearly 20 years ago. November 5, 3:00 p.m. PST Do your homework before computer shopping Too often, the details that vendors present as important buying criteria are window dressing of little importance to the majority of business and enterprise buyers. I’m addressing PC and PowerPC servers in particular, as they make up the bulk of my lab’s current research resources. November 5, 3:00 p.m. PST The reality of virtual servers Server virtualization is one of those rare technologies that sounds too good to be true, but it’s real. Its earliest use was to consolidate underutilized server hardware onto a smaller number of machines. Since those early days, it has grown into a multipurpose solution that enables greater reliability, improved management, and other benefits that make it an all-but-indispensable tool for enterprise datacenter administrators. November 5, 3:00 p.m. PST VMware delivers a datacenter in a box VMware, now owned by EMC, created its ESX Server virtualization product for businesses that need truly enterprise-class virtualization. ESX Server 2.1.1 implements the consolidation, dynamic provisioning, resource pooling, and all-bases-covered availability assurance of expensive system and storage hardware. But ESX Server does it with ordinary servers, modular SANs, and vanilla operating systems. November 5, 3:00 p.m. PST Dell to pre-install Suse Linux on servers Dell Inc. will install Novell Inc.'s Suse Linux operating system on Dell PowerEdge servers as part of a worldwide agreement, the companies announced Wednesday at the LinuxWorld conference in Frankfurt, Germany. October 27, 7:45 a.m. PDT VMware previews virtual server Hoping to keep the heat on archrival Microsoft, VMware on Wednesday will give developers a glimpse of an early version of its Virtual SMP product that allows a single virtual machine to work with as many as four processors, which in turn can more effectively drive mission-critical applications. October 27, 6:00 a.m. PDT NEC restarts factory after earthquake TOKYO - NEC Electronics Inc. restarted production at its Yamagata, Japan, factory on Monday evening after a series of strong earthquakes over the weekend halted manufacturing. However, two factories near the epicenter of the quakes remain off-line and the companies that operate them have no estimate for when they will be back online. October 26, 5:31 a.m. PDT HP could make more of Compaq acquisition, CEO says TAIPEI, Taiwan -- More than two years after completing its buyout of rival Compaq Computer Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has not done enough to take full advantage of the acquisition, according to HP's chairman and chief executive officer (CEO). October 15, 4:47 a.m. PDT Hot servers not so cool for data center managers ATLANTA -- Low-end server technology is racing ahead of the ability of many data centers to keep the increasingly dense and fast systems cool, a problem that's stopping some IT managers from using the new machines. October 11, 3:40 p.m. PDT IBM goes after SMBs with Unix servers Continuing its steady push to win over the hearts and wallets of midsize companies, IBM on Tuesday is rolling out two lower-priced Unix-based servers that will go head-to-head with offerings from archrivals Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. October 5, 6:00 a.m. PDT Dell, Oracle offer server-database bundle Pursuing enterprise departments and smaller businesses, Oracle and Dell Computer are offering a package featuring a Dell PowerEdge server bundled with the Oracle Database10g Standard Edition One database and the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system. September 21, 2:00 p.m. PDT Sun gets Microsoft-friendly with promotion Sun Microsystems Inc. has found one more way to cozy up to users of Microsoft Corp. products without actually shipping the Windows operating system on its computers. September 1, 11:15 a.m. PDT Opteron-powered Sun Fire V20z proves competent Sun’s first foray into the AMD-based server market, the Sun Fire V20z, is nothing unusual -- beyond its dual Opteron processors, that is. What the company is offering is a solid x86 server at a good price, which can serve as a stepping stone for the company (and its customers) into the 64-bit world of x86, as long as you don’t mind its limited high-availability features. The server currently runs the 32-bit version of Sun’s Solaris 9 x86 operating system, as well as 32-bit and 64-bit flavors of Linux. August 27, 3:00 p.m. PDT Gartner: Q2 server shipments up on Sun, Dell strength Server shipments and revenue increased in the second quarter as Sun Microsystems Inc. and Dell Inc. gained market share at the expense of Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and IBM Corp., according to research released by Gartner Inc. Wednesday. August 25, 8:59 a.m. PDT IBM adds four-way 550 server to new i5 product line IBM Corp. bolstered the new eServer i5 server lineup with the i5 550, a new system based on the Power 5 chip that can run multiple operating systems. August 24, 6:00 a.m. PDT HP: ProLiant delays to continue through August CHICAGO -- Hewlett-Packard Co. customers will continue to have difficulties ordering custom configurations of HP's ProLiant servers though the end of August, company executives told attendees at the HP World conference in Chicago Tuesday. The problems are due to continuing problems with an SAP AG order processing and supply-chain deployment rolled out last month, they said. August 17, 2:48 p.m. PDT The six myths of IT Time to face reality. Some of our bedrock assumptions turn out to be unfounded. And chief technologists can be subject to outdated beliefs as often as any professional. With that in mind, we addressed six common IT myths and deconstructed them to give managers a clear view of some important assumptions that might otherwise throw a monkey wrench into their technology plans. August 13, 3:00 p.m. PDT > Hardware > Server hardware > Platforms > Server hardware |
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