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Comdex 2001: IBM Shows Off Enterprise X Servers
News IBM is using this week's Comdex Fall 2001 trade show to display its new family of Enterprise X Architecture servers. Enterprise X Architecture uses a combination of Intel chips and IBM technology aimed at creating lower-cost, mainframe-like servers...
[November 14, 2001, 9:51]
Comdex 2001: IBM Prepares Sequel To Summit Server
News IBM has been working on chipset called Summit and now formally named Enterprise X Architecture that hooks together four of Intel's upcoming Xeon server processors with memory and other subsystems. The next generation of the design, called...
[November 14, 2001, 10:02]
Comdex 2001: IBM Takes High Road With Summit Chipset
News IBM is using this week's Comdex Fall 2001 trade show to display its new family of Enterprise X Architecture servers. Enterprise X Architecture uses a combination of Intel chips and IBM technology aimed at creating lower-cost, mainframe-like servers...
[November 13, 2001, 14:47]
IBM EServer XSeries 365 Technical Introduction
White Papers The four-way Intel Xeon MP-based x365 is the follow-on to the popular x360 and offers second-generation Enterprise X-Architecture technology in a rack-dense 3U form factor. The x365 is targeted at database, e-mail, e-commerce and ERP applications.
[September 24, 2004, 3:00]
VMware ESX Server 2: NUMA Support
White Papers This white paper is intended for partners, resellers, and advanced system administrators who wish to understand the unique advantages of implementing a VMware ESX Server solution on an IBM Enterprise X-Architecture platform.
[May 27, 2004, 1:03]
IBM EServer X3 Architecture: Application Server Performance Gains
White Papers IBM raises the bar for scalable, high-performance application servers with the introduction of IBM eServer X3 Architecture - the ground-breaking third-generation of the IBM Enterprise X-Architecture XA-64e chipset.
[April 21, 2007, 1:00]
Sal. Oppenheim Claims First-Mover Advantage With A Grid Solution From IBM And Platform
White Papers Working with IBM and Platform Computing, created a grid architecture based on IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter servers running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. With more than 3,200 employees managing some e136 billion of assets, Sal.
[April 5, 2007, 1:00]
IBM Goes Open Source On Supercomputers
News These include the Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit (xCAT), originally developed for large clusters based on Intel's commodity x86 architecture but now modified for clusters based on IBM's own Power architecture.xCAT is used in the National...
[August 6, 2008, 14:54]
Sun Offers Gnome Test Drive For Solaris Users
News Leila Chucri, a product line manager at Sun, said this was "an introductory software package designed to allow workstation and Internet customers to test drive, explore, and evaluate an early version of the Gnome desktop for the Solaris operating...
[May 23, 2001, 17:23]
New Company Aims For Simpler PGP
News We are going to take our knowledge of both client and server-side software and in the future build on that to create a much easier-to-use secure messaging architecture. PGP Corp.is setting out to do what Network Associates couldn't -- entice...
[August 19, 2002, 16:42]
Apple Servers Take On A New Form
News This is the fastest Mac architecture we've ever built," Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said. Jobs acknowledged that Apple is not thought of as a business-computing powerhouse, joking that people are more likely to associate the Mac with the USS...
[May 15, 2002, 8:42]
Will Intel Chips Make Macs Less Secure?
News The Alliance's main goal was to create a new computing standard based on the PowerPC architecture, one that could adequately compete with Intel. One of the most widely reported justifications for the switch from the PowerPC architecture centred on...
[March 1, 2006, 13:10]
Red Hat Doffs Cap At Latest Fedora
News Fedora also incorporates a newer subsystem for audio tasks, the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Fedora is designed as a proving ground where new technology can mature before incorporation into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the company's...
[May 19, 2004, 9:15]
Intel Puts On Its Show With Prestonia
News Intel on Monday will unveil its first server chip based on the Pentium 4 architecture as it continues to stake a larger claim in the upper echelons of the computing world. First, by switching to the Pentium 4 architecture, Intel can drastically...
[February 25, 2002, 8:48]
IBM Servers To Run Linux And Windows
News The deal fits into two Big Blue efforts: the X architecture initiative to offer more sophisticated Intel-based servers and an overall emphasis on the open-source Linux software. More enterprise IT news in ZDNet UK's Tech Update Channel.
[February 19, 2002, 15:56]
Sun Debuts Java Web Start
News Paolini spent much of his keynote reviewing Sun's strategy of making Web and network services interoperable as well as intelligent through Sun's Open Network Environment architecture. We want to provide Java applications in a truly heterogeneous...
[March 15, 2001, 8:26]
SIP Flaw Causes Problems For Cisco
News SIP is being adopted by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) as part of the third generation mobile architecture. Tell us what you think in the Enterprise Mailroom. For a weekly round-up of the enterprise IT news, sign up for the...
[March 10, 2003, 10:00]
IBM Throws Weight Behind Intel's 64-bit Strategy
News The x450 uses the second-generation of Intel's Itanium chip family, the Itanium 2, linked to memory and with a variant of IBM's Enterprise X Architecture chipset. IBM has begun selling its first major Itanium server, the four-processor x450, the...
[April 30, 2003, 7:37]
IBM Packs 64 Xeons Into A Single Server
News The 64-processor machine, like the first-generation 16-Xeon x440 and second-generation 32-Xeon x445, uses a version of IBM's Enterprise X Architecture (EXA) chipset, code-named Summit. IBM plans to release a server in early 2005 that will...
[January 15, 2004, 8:00]
New CPUs Fuel Server Competition
News IBM has announced a new line of servers called the eServer x440 with Enterprise X-Architecture, based at present on Intel's Foster Xeon chips, but anticipated to move to Intel's McKinley Itanium chips within the next year to two years.
[April 17, 2002, 15:11]
