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IBM expands use of server chip
News The i890 -- like its iSeries predecessors, and like newer pSeries Unix servers and zSeries mainframes -- can be divided into several "partitions," essentially independent servers within the same hardware.
[April 30, 2002, 10:47]
Fujitsu Siemens: PC boom days are over
News While Linux is already running on mainframes and supercomputer clusters, he said most software development for Linux is focused on servers that handle less demanding applications such as Web or email serving.
[June 12, 2003, 15:15]
Comdex '99: McNealy - A future without Microsoft
News In a question-and-answer session following his keynote, McNealy said Microsoft should be required to end preclusive agreements; open its APIs (application programming interfaces); adopt transparent pricing so it "can't hurt IBM because IBM makes...
[November 18, 1999, 9:42]
Lacey's Paper Round
News The answer is that the change needed "in IT terms, it involves a conceptual change from mainframes and terminals - referred to in trade jargon as 'masters' and 'slaves' - to the new Web based orthodoxy of 'clients' and 'servers'".
[August 3, 1998, 9:12]
Virtualisation firms get ready for a real battle
News The technology has been used in mainframes for decades, but now is making its way to mainstream servers as well. Three companies selling virtualisation software will try to advance their respective fortunes on Monday with new software, a new...
[February 6, 2006, 8:05]
Sun uncloaks 'virtualised' computing
News With it, administrators will be able to allocate more computing power to important tasks and better manage less important ones, a process similar in concept to the way high-end Unix servers and mainframes can be partitioned so they can run several...
[February 8, 2002, 14:22]
Dell vetoes eight-processor server
News Traditionally, heavy-duty applications ran on single machines such as Unix servers or mainframes that today have dozens of processors. Microsoft has begun boasting that Windows Server 2003 has attained some of the high-end server abilities...
[July 21, 2003, 13:02]
Java allies brew wireless riposte to MS
News J2EE runs on numerous servers, from multimillion-dollar IBM mainframes and Sun Unix servers to comparatively inexpensive Intel servers running Microsoft Windows. Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, IBM and several other companies have joined a software...
[December 19, 2001, 10:19]
Data centre energy crisis looms
News Ealier this week, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, and Intel set out a detailed programme to help customers reduce costs by migrating applications from mainframes to servers. A crisis is looming in the UK's data centres around the most fundamental of...
[October 25, 2006, 15:35]
UnitedLinux bears fruit at Comdex
News UnitedLinux doesn't cover products for desktop computers or for non-Intel servers such as IBM's mainframes and Intel's 64-bit Itanium processors. The UnitedLinux effort will bear its first fruit on Tuesday at the Comdex Fall 2002 trade show, with...
[November 18, 2002, 8:09]
Linux services boom at IBM
News SuSE has been a tight ally with IBM in its effort to spread Linux to Big Blue's Power processor-based servers and its top-end mainframes. Selling servers is IBM's biggest Linux business, with nearly $2bn (£1.09bn) in sales expected in 2004, but the...
[August 5, 2004, 10:55]
PlayStation2 Linux kit ships in UK
News The software is popular with technophiles and is comparatively easy to move to different computers, so many efforts are under way to move Linux to everything from watches to mainframes. Sony Computer Entertainment has begun shipping a £155 kit for...
[May 23, 2002, 13:56]
Ballmer: We must 'compete relentlessly'
News With Windows Server 2003, we can compete for every commercial workload running on Linux or Unix today -- even mainframes and high-performance computing -- at lower cost, more efficiently and more reliably," he wrote.
[July 7, 2004, 8:35]
Top server makers rally around InfiniBand
News IBM will use InfiniBand in all four of its server lines -- xSeries Intel-based servers, pSeries Unix servers, iSeries mid-range servers and top-end zSeries mainframes. IBM, Sun Microsystems and Dell Computer took to the campaign trail this week...
[December 19, 2002, 10:49]
IBM lets Linux fans use mainframe for free
News IBM will also gain, among other things, test data related to using its mainframes for applications such as Web hosting. IBM says it will offer Linux supporters the next best thing starting this week --free access to one of the computing giant's...
[May 23, 2001, 9:14]
Norway's second city embraces Linux
News Novell, along with competitors such as IBM and HP, sees Linux as a way of allowing customers to standardise on a single low-cost, non-proprietary platform, allowing a migration from a hodge-podge of systems to open-source-based clusters or...
[June 15, 2004, 15:15]
IBM demonstrates strong sales
News Big Blue has been expanding its market leadership in the server category, with its mainframes business still showing sales growth. Tech industry bellwether IBM reported first-quarter earnings on Thursday that met expectations amid solid revenue...
[April 16, 2004, 8:30]
Am I mad, in a coma, or have I gone back in time?
Blog Thermos flasks did have a big role to play in the design, construction and operation of early mainframes, but only to keep the coffee hot (and in certain cases, the martinis cold) of the wayward souls charged with such tasks.
[May 3, 2007, 9:43]
IDC: 'Linux is now mainstream'
News Linux is most widely used on servers using x86 chips such as Intel's Xeon and AMD's Opteron, but it also is supported on IBM's mainframes and Power processor based systems and on servers from HP and others using Intel's Itanium processor.
[December 16, 2004, 7:40]
HP Compaq t5720 Thin Client review
Reviews Added to which there’s a conventional terminal emulator for access to mainframes and other legacy systems. The t5720 is a very smart-looking device, but one of the first things you notice about it is its size, which is actually quite big for a thin...
[April 18, 2006, 11:00]
