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IBM to unleash new PowerPC chip
News Xserve is Apple's rack-mounted server. IBM will put its PowerPC processor line back on the map on Monday when it talks up a speedy chip that promises a substantial performance boost for desktops and servers.
[October 14, 2002, 7:57]
Steve Jobs: Tough times ahead
News After polishing Apple's lineup with the new flat-panel iMac, the school-oriented eMac, and now a rack-mounted server, chief executive Steve Jobs still has an adjustment to make. Apple is also giving the business market a stab with its latest foray...
[May 15, 2002, 13:50]
IBM gives Power5 servers dual-core boost
News Most rack-mounted computers are 48cm wide, but the p5-575 uses a 61cm rack. Most mainstream Unix servers from IBM use the dual-core version. IBM will boost the processing power of its p5-575 server, a machine geared for high-performance technical...
[June 20, 2005, 9:25]
Blue Coat Spyware Interceptor review
Reviews The hardware, though, is tiny: just 1U high, and about a third the width of a standard rack shelf, so it can either be placed on a desktop or rack-mounted using the special brackets supplied. You might also want to exempt particular servers and/or...
[September 12, 2005, 10:30]
IBM builds on-demand power into new hardware
News Available in rack-mounted or deskside versions, the p615 is aimed at enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, customer relationship management and other business applications and can also be clustered to perform scientific research...
[June 19, 2003, 10:28]
Sun announces smaller blade chassis
News The machines' "Atoka" system boards were co-developed by SGI, Intel and Supermicro Computer, SGI said, and come in rack-mounted systems either 1.75 or 3.5 inches thick. The company is hoping that its blade servers, from the "Galaxy" line of x86...
[November 15, 2006, 9:53]
ClearCube PC Blade solutions review
Reviews So let’s start with the easy bit, the hardware, where -- just like blade servers -- each ClearCube PC blade is in fact a self-contained computer designed to be plugged into a special rack-mounted chassis.
[November 16, 2005, 9:00]
McKinley servers to massively undercut Merced
News HP rack-mounted servers based on Itanium are 7U in size, but when McKinley servers go into production, HP will be selling them in 2U packages. Servers based on the second iteration of Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor, code-named McKinley, will...
[January 16, 2002, 14:59]
HP packs Xeon in ProLiant server
News The rack-mounted ProLiant DL320 and DL360 servers and the updated ProLiant DL580 are based on technology inherited from Compaq Computer, which merged with HP last year. Hewlett-Packard is launching three updated versions of its dense ProLiant...
[December 3, 2002, 7:56]
Gateway latest Opteron convert
News The company announced three rack-mounted models, dual-processor machines 1.75 inches and 3.5 inches thick, and a four-processor machine 5.25 inches thick. Gateway has become the latest computer maker to begin selling x86 servers using AMD's Opteron...
[November 8, 2006, 10:31]
Alpha proved costly for Compaq
News This has been a very interesting week for Compaq," said Mike Winkler, head of Compaq's global business units, admitted during a news conference yesterday at PC Expo scheduled to tout two new rack-mounted servers, but which gave way to a broader...
[June 28, 2001, 9:48]
Dell, EMC bolster Oracle data-warehouse package
News The new version of the data-warehouse package, announced on Tuesday at the Oracle OpenWorld show in San Francisco, is based on Dell's latest PowerEdge rack-mounted servers and EMC's Clariion CX4 storage arrays.
[September 24, 2008, 16:23]
Dell servers aim to save power
News The PowerEdge 2970 rack-mounted servers can handle multiple generations of Intel Opteron processors and will offer an upgrade path to the AMD quad-core processor, which is due out later this year. Dell has launched two servers, one of which, the...
[April 13, 2007, 11:31]
Server consolidation: a tech guide review
Reviews Alternatively, some IT managers take the software from existing tower or rack-mounted servers and run it on more compact blade servers. You'll also need to decide whether you want a small number of four-socket servers, each fitted with lots of RAM...
[May 7, 2009, 15:26]
Hitachi launches new-generation blade servers
News The new system, like its predecessor, is a rack-mounted chassis 17.5 inches tall that can accommodate eight dual-processor blades using either Itanium or Xeon chips from Intel. Hitachi plans to launch on Tuesday a new generation of BladeSymphony...
[November 28, 2006, 8:25]
Linux server market to be 'worth $9bn by 2008'
News Linux is used on about half of blade servers today, compared to 20 percent of rack-mounted servers and 11 percent of free-standing servers. Sales of servers using Linux will grow faster than the overall market at least through 2008, when customers...
[December 7, 2004, 8:25]
HP snubbed over blade server standards call
News A single rack-mounted case can typically house dozens of individual server motherboards -- or blades -- each with its own storage. Hewlett-Packard has been snubbed by other server manufacturers in its call for a standard for blade servers that...
[February 6, 2002, 10:32]
Intel demonstrates 'Tulsa' Xeon servers
News Tulsa comes in two variants: one high-performance model that consumes 150 watts of power and one geared for rack-mounted servers that consumes 95 watts. Intel and Dell this week showed off servers using the chipmaker's forthcoming high-end "Tulsa...
[August 17, 2006, 9:10]
Fujitsu launches three-way system attack
News In early 1997 Fujitsu will ship the J600I, a new rack-mounted model in the Superserver range. Fujitsu today also extended its Teamserver range of servers with the 200MHz Pentium Pro-based C640I and G640i.
[October 4, 1996, 15:15]
Intel builds servers, block by block
News Dual-processor motherboards are available for 1.75- and 3.5-inch-thick rack-mounted systems. Intel is releasing several "building blocks" to make it easier for business partners to build servers using Intel processors, the company will announce...
[June 17, 2002, 9:23]
