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Linux services boom at IBM
News Now Linux is running bigger and bigger workloads and adding a lot more functions," he said. Selling servers is IBM's biggest Linux business, with nearly $2bn (£1.09bn) in sales expected in 2004, but the company says services and software revenue...
[August 5, 2004, 10:55]
Sun to supercharge UltraSparc with Afara acquisition
News The UltraSparc V, with a dual personality to handle different types of workloads, will run from 1.8GHz to beyond 3GHz and will work only in new servers. Sun Microsystems has signed an agreement to acquire chip design start-up Afara Websystems to...
[June 26, 2002, 9:43]
BMC tools aim to make light work of virtualisation
News This tool monitors the capacity requirements of IT systems — that is, the number of servers required to perform a particular task or run a particular installation — and, as the company puts it, replaces "educated guesses with automatic assessment...
[September 3, 2008, 14:41]
PostgreSQL 8.4 arrives tailored for admins
News Last year, a study by research company Forrester Research found that the market for open source databases like PostgreSQL was booming due to new workloads such as RFID projects, rich web applications and small portals.
[July 2, 2009, 17:01]
IBM flies the grid flag at LinuxWorld
News The IBM system comes with a BladeCenter with seven blades that can be powered by Intel, AMD or IBM processors, along IBM Director management software and Grid Scheduler for allocating workloads using Altair PBS Professional, DataSynapse GridServer...
[August 9, 2005, 17:20]
AMD's Turion gets a second core
News AMD lists a slightly higher range for the maximum power consumption of its chips, but has a slight advantage over Intel in some of the deeper sleep states that a processor enters in between workloads.
[May 17, 2006, 8:55]
Long-hours culture saps tech productivity
News The report claims women are better at controlling their workloads, with just 16 percent of women working more than 48 hours per week compared to 35 percent of men. Working long hours is having a negative impact on many UK tech workers as it hits...
[February 19, 2008, 9:28]
IBM signs up grid software partners
News The more we can get commercial-level workloads on the grid, that will feed customer demand. Hoping to broaden the appeal of grid computing, IBM and a handful of software makers said on Wednesday that they have retooled their business applications...
[June 17, 2004, 10:10]
Microsoft hints at future SQL Server features
News One of these is Datallegro, a data-warehouse appliance vendor, whose technology would help Madison "be able to handle the most demanding data-warehousing workloads spanning hundreds of terabytes of data and thousands of concurrent users".
[October 7, 2008, 16:47]
AMD dissolves Alchemy product line
News Torrenza is a bid to open up AMD's Opteron processors to accommodate third-party coprocessors for specialised workloads. AMD unloaded its Alchemy line of microprocessors on Tuesday, selling the product to Raza Microelectronics.
[June 14, 2006, 10:55]
SGI hopes NASA's Linux spend will boost results
News However, the SGI machines are geared for technical computing tasks, not the mainstream commercial workloads, such as housing corporate databases, for which IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems design their high-end servers.
[October 21, 2003, 12:05]
BakBone moves into data-archiving software
News Features include automated policy management to reduce IT and storage management workloads, and indexing to allow users to search across some or all the file data, the benefits of which include increased productivity and lower risk of penalties...
[October 30, 2009, 11:54]
Sun introduces 2TB flash storage array
News The F5100 is designed to speed up the processes for Oracle and MySQL database workloads. Sun has unveiled a solid-state flash-based storage array with a capacity of up to 2TB, claiming an industry high for the product's performance.
[October 13, 2009, 17:40]
XenServer 5 review
Reviews The remote Windows XenCenter console has also been reworked, with a slicker interface and lots of new features, including the ability to define metadata to group and tag virtual machines (or 'workloads' as virtualisation vendors now prefer to call...
[November 18, 2008, 10:40]
Bright future for Linux in business intelligence
News In addition to compute intensive workloads such as ERP, CRM and databases, business intelligence is an area that will be able to leverage the price/performance benefits of Linux. Linux has developed to an extent where it can be relied on in high...
[November 29, 2005, 17:20]
IBM outlines Power7 chip plan
News The new software is intended to help organisations to monitor and manage virtual resources, create virtual servers and manage workloads across multiple platforms. IBM has revealed details of new processors for its Power Systems line of Unix servers...
[July 22, 2009, 7:12]
IBM readies Power6 blades for next year
News Different blades, including ones with different processors, can be mixed and matched to accommodate various workloads. Beginning with its Power6 dual-core chip, IBM will build its high-end Power processors into blade servers for the first time in...
[December 7, 2006, 11:17]
Super-speed Ethernet start-up wins IBM backing
News You can assign a certain amount of bandwidth uniquely to those partitioned workloads. IBM plans to begin selling Ethernet adapters from Neterion on Monday, the most significant partner thus far for a start-up whose products transfer data at 10Gbps.
[October 31, 2005, 8:30]
Red Hat, Alcatel-Lucent join forces on unified comms
News The deal covers Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat's flagship operating system, as well as Realtime, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5-based product intended for time-critical workloads such as systems for financial services.
[February 21, 2008, 17:06]
VMware aims to virtualise Windows 7 rollouts
News The vSphere server-side software on which View is based has been optimised for server chips such as Intel's Xeon 5500 and AMD's upcoming 'Istanbul', and VMware said it has improved the scheduling of virtual desktop workloads.
[November 9, 2009, 15:36]
