Sun Fights Back With Mid-range Servers
News Sun Microsystems unveiled four new midrange Unix servers on Wednesday, a critical milestone in the company's drawn-out effort to move its product line to UltraSparc III chips and stave off reinvigorated competition from IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
[March 21, 2001, 11:25]
Sun Expands Supercomputer Effort
News Sun Microsystems will take a major step into supercomputing on Monday with the announcement of Fire Link, a technology that joins its high-end servers into a single high-performance cluster. In earlier years, supercomputers were single, massive...
[November 18, 2002, 8:24]
Sun Microsystems Case Study: Tai Fook Securities
White Papers Faced with rising operational overheads and doubts about the ability of its existing distributed infrastructure to cope with continued growth, the Tai Fook Securities Group has migrated to a consolidated platform based on Sun Microsystems' Solaris...
[May 6, 2005, 0:00]
Hitachi Storage At Work Case Study: Payserv AG
White Papers Payserv AG, part of the Telekurs Group, is Switzerland's leading company in the processing of bank and credit/debit card payments. In order to guarantee the highest levels of stability and performance, Payserv decided to abandon the mainframe...
[October 11, 2004, 0:00]
Clearance! Sun Chops Old Server Prices
News Sun Microsystems has cut prices on formerly high-end servers now being replaced by systems using newer chips, the company said today. The price of the top-end E10000 Starfire server, which often commands prices higher than $1m, has been cut 16...
[April 18, 2001, 9:31]
Compaq Ignites Wildfire Servers
News Compaq will tomorrow unveil yet more details of its much-hyped new enterprise servers, codenamed Wildfire, as it builds up after a series of missed deadlines to its 16 May release date. In a France conference for press and analysts, sources said...
[April 5, 2000, 8:30]
Unisys Banks On Second Generation Server
News Unisys has sold 320 of its high-end Intel-based servers since they debuted last year, a solid foothold for the new design, but the company already is anticipating its successor. Unisys sells the 32-processor machine under the brand name ES7000.
[March 5, 2001, 8:35]
HP Plans 16-way RISC Server
News Hewlett-Packard plans a new mid-range Unix server, later this year -- a 16-processor machine that will put pressure on rivals IBM and Sun Microsystems, assuming HP can recover the goodwill of sales partners.
[March 8, 2001, 12:11]
Fujitsu To Unveil 128-CPU Server
News Fujitsu Technology Solutions will announce its new top-end Unix server Monday, a 128-processor behemoth that will put pressure on Sun Microsystems, IBM and Hewlett-Packard. However, the new Primepower 2000 system is arriving months later than a...
[July 12, 2001, 12:33]
IBM To Build Europe's Biggest Supercomputer
News Germany's Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences has awarded IBM a multimillion-dollar contract to build Europe's largest non-classified supercomputer, IBM announced to-day. The deal, worth "tens of millions of dollars," will see...
[May 18, 2001, 15:13]
Sun Steers Clear Of Computing Slump
News Sun Microsystems met analyst expectations for quarterly earnings Thursday, amid a slowing economy many analysts think will later hit the successful Unix server specialist. Sun posted net income of 16 cents a share, just as analysts surveyed by...
[January 19, 2001, 8:19]
Sun Slices Servers With Software
News With its next version of the Solaris operating system, Sun Microsystems plans to take a new direction that involves dividing a server into a large number of independent partitions. The company is moving, for the first time, toward using software...
[October 16, 2003, 16:15]
Sun To Pump Up High-end Servers
News Sun Microsystems will unveil a series of upgrades to its high-end servers on Monday, including faster 1.2GHz processors and the ability to switch out many components without shutting the computer down, sources familiar with the company's plans said.
[February 5, 2003, 8:09]
