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Sun goes big with blade servers
News In a crowded market, Sun is banking on differentiating its new industry-standard servers through their high-capacity, high-speed networking and low cost. The company is claiming a cost-per-gigabyte of $2 (£1.08) for the hybrid servers.
[July 11, 2006, 13:05]
Intel diversifies Itanium family
News Servers that use the chip, which specialises in running complex 64-bit code, have posted some of the highest benchmarks in the industry, according to organisations that tally those results. In a few years, servers that use the chip won't cost any...
[February 19, 2004, 9:20]
Novell starts selling Java-boosted Linux
News Like its predecessors, SLES 9 will support not just "x86" chips such as Intel's Xeon and Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron, but also IBM's Power processor, Intel's Itanium processor and IBM's mainframe servers.
[August 4, 2004, 11:00]
Sun's Orion pricing to arrive within two months
News Although sales of Intel-based lower-end Sun servers are likely to cannibalise some of Sun's UltraSparc-based business, that alternative is better than losing sales to others, Knox said. Grouping lets an administrator make changes to a group of...
[April 30, 2003, 7:46]
Red Hat reaches out with Fedora
News He's one of a handful of programmers working to create a new version of Fedora for computers using IBM's Power processor family -- most commonly the PowerPC used in Macintosh machines, but also the chips in IBM's pSeries servers.
[January 17, 2005, 15:35]
IBM deal will increase Linux software for Power
News The QuickTransit server products for IBM will ship as a standard part of selected IBM Power-based servers," Transitive said in a statement. IBM announced a partnership on Tuesday to significantly expand the software available for customers running...
[August 16, 2006, 9:25]
Sun gives new Solaris away
News Historically, Sun has garnered most of its revenue and profit from selling servers containing its own UltraSparc chip running a more standard version of Solaris. Sun previously charged $20 (£11.45) for evaluation copies of Solaris x86, the version...
[December 16, 2003, 8:35]
Sun gets serious about cheap servers
News Most large corporate customers already own some sort of Sun servers running the standard version of Solaris. We've certainly seen them blow hot and cold in this area," said Hugh Jenkins, vice president of marketing for industry standard servers at...
[May 20, 2003, 7:43]
HP starts selling four-Opteron server
News Last week Sun completed the acquisition of Kealia, a start-up launched by Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim that specialises in Opteron servers. Unlike HP, IBM and Dell, Sun is pushing its own version of Unix for x86 servers, called Solaris.
[April 20, 2004, 8:55]
HP to confirm Opteron server
News HP declined to comment but said in a press statement that Scott Stallard, senior vice president and general manager of HP's Enterprise Storage and Servers group, "will announce the expansion of its industry standard solutions portfolio" on Tuesday.
[February 24, 2004, 7:45]
Sun dismisses HyperTransport
News We're interested in industry-standard interfaces," said Andy Bechtolsheim, a Sun engineer and co-founder whose Kealia products became the foundation of Sun's Galaxy line of x86 servers. Sun is a leading proponent of AMD processors, but its top x86...
[February 28, 2006, 9:55]
IBM set to release Linux-only Power server
News The low cost would position the OpenPower products not only against lower-end Unix servers from Sun Microsystems based on the UltraSparc processor but also against servers from a number of companies using x86 chips such as Intel's Xeon and...
[September 10, 2004, 13:55]
IBM expands Linux offering
News By participating in the programme, independent software vendors will have an easier time porting applications from x86 processor-based servers to servers that run on IBM's Power chips and to IBM mainframes.
[February 15, 2005, 8:05]
Next Red Hat Linux due before March
News Virtualization has been a feature on higher-end servers for years and has arrived on mainstream x86 machines chiefly through software from EMC's VMware subsidiary. The software includes new security features to protect against some attacks, plus a...
[December 29, 2006, 8:33]
Virtualisation speed test being developed
News Virtual machine technology has existed for years on high-end servers, but it's coming to mainstream servers using x86 processors through products such as VMware's ESX Server, XenSource's XenEnterprise and Microsoft's Virtual Server.
[November 13, 2006, 9:53]
Linux as a technology cost-saving strategy
News A comparison of the operating costs to support seven Web servers is shown in Table A below: Identify: Inventory all servers, PCs, and computer systems that have potential to operate on Linux vs. Start with "noncritical" application servers.
[March 11, 2004, 12:30]
Dell poaches HP executive
News Number one HP and number two Dell have been jockeying for years in the market for servers using x86 processors. It's an important market: In the first quarter, sales of x86 servers grew 9 percent, compared with 4 percent for the overall $12.3bn...
[July 1, 2005, 10:00]
Dell’s new blade - home grown or not?
News An obvious partner to jump-start Dell's blade business would have been Intel, which designed the Itanium servers Dell sells. I think there is strong evidence, as seen by the encroachment of x86 servers throughout the entire market, that Dell's...
[November 1, 2004, 15:29]
Sun jumps to Linux 5.0
News The LX50 servers, which Sun announced on Monday, will ship with what the server maker is calling Sun Linux 5.0. Tindall confirmed that although Sun will only offer support for copies of Sun Linux 5.0 sold with its servers, the distribution will be...
[August 13, 2002, 10:35]
Red Hat's pricing attacked by Dell
News Sun in particular is working hard on a version of Solaris for x86 servers -- those that use processors such as Intel's Xeon or AMD's Opteron. We do have some customers running it on Dell servers," Chavis said of the x86 version of Solaris, but Dell...
[December 8, 2004, 12:30]
