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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 . 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 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 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 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 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 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 Equity firm invests $100 million firms backing IBM's System i A San Francisco equity investment firm has put US$100 million into three companies whose business models support IBM's System i server platform. December 19, 2:18 p.m. PST Dell claims new servers save on electric bill Computer maker Dell's solution to the datacenter energy crisis is to market more energy-efficient versions of its PowerEdge line of servers. December 4, 4:20 a.m. PST HP Labs offers server cooling advances Hewlett-Packard's HP Labs research center has developed a new approach to cooling datacenters by adjusting air conditioning systems to changing server loads more precisely than what's available now. November 29, 4:28 a.m. PST Server unit growth slows but revenue stays strong The server market remains strong but industry research shows unit shipment rates slowing as companies buy fewer, but more powerful, machines. November 22, 1:00 p.m. PST Virtualization takes toll on physical server sales New numbers from Gartner show that computer server sales slowed in the third quarter, a trend the research company attributes to virtualization. November 21, 5:24 p.m. PST IBM unveils servers running Intel quad-core chips IBM is joining the chorus of server manufacturers launching systems running on Intel quad-core Xeon processors. November 10, 4:08 a.m. PST Update: Dell unveils first servers running Opterons Dell is coming out with its first servers running Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processors. October 24, 4:46 a.m. PDT Gateway picks Woodcrest chips for servers Gateway will use Intel's Woodcrest chip to power three new midrange servers, including the E-9520T high-performance tower server and the E-9425R and E-9525R rack-mounted servers, all of which were due to be shown Thursday at the Intel Developer Forum trade show. September 28, 5:42 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 HP offers Integrity servers with Montecito chips Hewlett-Packard is launching two servers using Intel's new dual-core Itanium chip in a bid to gain market traction for the troubled Itanium line. September 7, 4:12 a.m. PDT Sun launches midrange storage arrays Sun Microsystems announced a new family of external storage arrays Thursday to compete with Hewlett-Packard and IBM for midrange business customers. August 10, 4:25 a.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 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 Google: We don't need reliable servers Google Inc., typically tight-lipped about the technology behind its data centers, builds its own servers to save costs and because standard products don't exactly meet its needs, Google's senior vice president of operations said on Thursday. June 29, 10:20 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 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 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 Tech junkies don’t want to hear that choice is bad I saw Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s new CEO, speak at a pre-recession trade conference. It wasn’t a conference to announce the recession, although Sun would have been the outfit to sponsor that shindig. Schwartz uttered three words that stuck in my head and which I’ll always associate with him: “Choice is bad.” May 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Product Previews Fujitsu unveils eight-socket server blade Fujitsu last week announced an eight-socket server blade based on dual-core AMD Opteron processors. Taking up a good chunk of a Primergy BX600 chassis -- which otherwise supports as many as 10 two-socket blades or five four-socket blades -- the Primergy BX630 can be installed alongside one or two other blades running AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon processors. The eight-socket BX630 blades will be available in the second quarter of this year, priced at less than $36,000. Windows Server 2003, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Suse Linux Enterprise Server, and VMware ESX Server operating systems are supported. Primergy BX630, Fujitsu Computer Systems March 20, 3:00 a.m. PST 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 Update: Sun to further promote Linux use on its servers Sun Microsystems Inc. is making another move to encourage developers to port other operating systems to its servers, notably Linux, the company announced Tuesday. Under its OpenSparc initiative, Sun released two specifications related to its UltraSparc T1 processor to make running non-Solaris operating systems on servers powered by that chip easier. February 14, 12:23 p.m. PST IBM fires up new p5 servers IBM on Tuesday rolled out a raft of new servers based on its Power5+ processors, including a new server with a Power5+ chip running at 2.2GHz and several new machines based on its quad-core module (QCM) technology that allows four Power5+ 1.5GHz cores to plug into a single socket. February 14, 6:49 a.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 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 Virtualization catches on with servers and storage in 2005 If you only had a single word to describe what 2005 meant in the world of servers and storage, that word would be "virtualization." Announcements from IT vendors about what they were virtualizing or planned to virtualize were rife throughout the year. December 13, 1:21 p.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 Sun charges Sun Fire T2000 with UltraSparc Not long ago, Sun announced the newest UltraSparc CPU, code-named Niagara, and officially dubbed the T1. What was readily apparent was that this newcomer wasn’t your daddy’s Sparc. Sun’s newly released Sun Fire T2000 UltraSparc T1-based server isn’t your daddy’s Sun Fire either. December 6, 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 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 Linux Networx shows off LS Series Hardware and clustering company Linux Networx Inc. unveiled its LS Series of Linux machines Monday. The Series contains two families, the midrange LS-1 Supersystem and the high-end LS/X supercomputer. November 14, 2:46 p.m. PST 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 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 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's project financing attracting SMBs IBM's project financing service is proving popular not only among enterprises but also with the small to midsize business (SMB) sector, according to a Big Blue executive. The service provides a customer with complete financial backing from IBM for an entire IT project from the design phase to system deployment. July 20, 12:19 p.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 Fujitsu SAS drives available in Supermicro canister Several companies have teamed up to make the first SAS (serial-attached SCSI) hard drives available for use in midrange servers, they announced Wednesday. June 22, 5:27 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 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 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 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 Microsoft and the 24-hour Linux phenomenon Recently I had the opportunity to meet with Jim Allchin, Microsoft's group vice president in charge of platforms, to talk about the future of Windows. As it turned out, however, what he has to say about Linux is equally interesting. April 25, 5:00 a.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 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 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 Startup to launch micro server for Web clients A Fremont, California, startup called Commendo Software on Monday plans to unveil new software created to speed up the performance of Web-based enterprise applications. March 25, 4:54 p.m. PST Dell preps data center servers and services Dell introduced two new four-processor PowerEdge servers Wednesday, along with software and services designed to help users build data centers with the new hardware, the company said during a press conference. March 23, 11:43 a.m. PST IDC: Volume servers behind server market growth Worldwide server revenue increased 6.2 percent to $49 billion in 2004 driven by the volume server segment, according to analyst firm IDC. February 25, 12:55 p.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 Four AMD horses on a budget Most applications for four-processor servers are heavy. Big databases and HPC (high-performance computing) implementations can make the most of the horsepower provided by the bigger iron, whereas lighter-weight tasks — such as Web serving, file serving, and application servers — are best suited to dual-processor systems. Appro’s 4148HS-82 borrows from both worlds. February 11, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 High-performance computing: Muscle in the middle SAN FRANCISCO - It's easy to get the impression that the midrange Unix server is like a boxer near the end of a career - still packing a wallop, just no longer throwing knockout left hooks. But the truth is, new processor architectures, multi-core systems, and the ascension of x86 chips are giving these systems extra punch, and users plenty to think about as they plan their purchasing for the next few years. October 20, 12:20 p.m. PDT Update: IBM posts broad Q3 revenue growth IBM Corp. posted quarterly results on Monday showing 9 percent revenue growth from last year and slight earnings growth, despite a $320 million charge it took during the quarter to settle some claims in a lawsuit over its pension plan. October 18, 5:45 p.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 Unisys to lay off 1,400 workers Unisys Corp. plans to cut 1,400 jobs, primarily in general and administrative areas, and consolidate its office space worldwide, it announced Wednesday. The cuts represent 3.8 percent of the company's staff of 37,000. October 7, 4:38 a.m. PDT Fujitsu to announce Nocona-based servers Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. on Wednesday plans to unveil upgrades to the company's Primergy tower and rack-mounted servers that will use the 64-bit capable version of the Xeon processor, code-named Nocona. October 6, 4:42 a.m. PDT Rebirth for the x86 Your basic everyday x86 server doesn't look so average anymore. In fact, with 64-bit extensions on the table and multi-core processors in the works, this venerable PC server is looking downright jazzy. September 27, 10:03 a.m. PDT Sun adds UltraSparc IV to 4-way, 8-way servers Sun Microsystems Inc. is preparing to launch two systems that will bring its UltraSparc IV processor into the low end of the company's server product line. Called the Sun Fire V490 and V890, the servers are slated to be introduced during Sun's Network Computing quarterly product announcement on Sept. 21, Sun said. September 10, 4:55 p.m. PDT Pogo Linux PerformanceWare worth jumping on Like a sports car that combines a big engine with a small body, the Pogo Linux PerformanceWare 3564 3U server packs a lot of processing power into a relatively small chassis. And though it performs like a hot rod, comes fully loaded with software, and handles like a dream thanks to stellar management tools, the 3564 is priced competitively. September 10, 3:00 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 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 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 Update: HP fires Blackmore, other sales executives Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) fired three major sales executives Thursday, including former server group head Peter Blackmore, in a management shakeup following a disappointing quarter for HP's server division. August 12, 1:15 p.m. PDT Update: HP grows Q3 revenue but servers, storage disappoint Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) reported solid revenue growth for its fiscal third quarter Thursday, boosted by sales in its Personal System Group. However, it said that performance in its Enterprise Servers and Storage Group was "unacceptable," and that it would make immediate management changes. August 12, 6:53 a.m. PDT Sun shows profit in preliminary earnings report Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday reported a profit of $795 million or $0.24 per share in the fourth quarter, compared with a loss of $1.039 billion or $0.32 per share in the same quarter of last year. July 21, 4:51 a.m. PDT Asianux ready for prime time, Oracle says Asian demand for enterprise servers running the Linux operating system, already strong, will get a further boost from the development of Asianux, a version of Linux that has been developed as a standardized distribution for enterprise customers in Asia, according to a top executive at Oracle Corp. July 20, 4:47 a.m. PDT AMD scores Q2 profit on nearly double revenue Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) grew its revenue significantly and posted a profit in its second quarter, ended June 27, 2004, helped by robust growth in its Memory Group business unit, which is in charge of flash memory products, the company said Wednesday. July 14, 3:04 p.m. PDT IBM launches Power5 Unix line IBM Corp. on Tuesday will announce the first four Unix servers to be based on the company's next-generation Power5 microprocessor. The servers, which will range in size from dual-processor to 16-way systems, will begin shipping by Aug. 27, IBM said. July 13, 4:40 a.m. PDT IBM opens server development center in Taiwan IBM Corp. has set up a development center for its xSeries servers in Taiwan to be closer to Taiwanese hardware manufacturers, the company said in a statement released last week. July 12, 5:11 a.m. PDT Fujitsu announces new servers with 90-nanometer chips Fujitsu Ltd. became the latest chip maker to introduce a 90-nanometer product with the launch of a faster version of its Sparc64 V processor for enterprise servers, the company announced Tuesday. June 22, 8:43 a.m. PDT Microsoft enhancing business intelligence in SQL Server Microsoft on Tuesday is releasing the first service pack for the SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services business intelligence platform. June 22, 6:00 a.m. PDT New candidates line up for 2004 Some folks dinged my patch-management column, commenting that Redmond doesn’t really release as much new code as all that. Well, I’m wondering where they were on Monday, June 14 -- a busy night in Redmond -- when the company unleashed release candidates of Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2) and of Virtual Server 2005. I’ve got this mental picture of Microsoft employees scurrying around like Keebler elves publishing release candidate after release candidate into the eager, cherubic faces of worldwide systems admins. June 18, 3:00 p.m. PDT Affordable 64-bit computing IT is rediscovering a simple but nearly forgotten principle: Throughput and capacity are everything. It hardly matters how fast the processor is if, like a Ferrari in city traffic, it bogs down every time it has to reach out to memory, peripherals, and other CPUs. A Xeon server running a static workload (that is, a predictable set of apps with stable resource requirements) is an unbeatable solution for the money. But today’s dynamic workloads -- from grid applications to real-time BI to virtualized resource partitioning -- force the 32-bit Xeon to spend as much time moving data as it does crunching data. It is optimized purely for the latter. June 18, 3:00 p.m. PDT Hey, where’s Itanium? If you’re scratching your head about our decision to evaluate G5 (PowerPC 970FX) and Opteron in one story, you’re not alone. This story was originally scheduled to pit Opteron against Itanium 2, but some funny things happened on the way to these pages. June 18, 3:00 p.m. PDT > Hardware > Server hardware > Platforms > Server hardware |
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