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IBM's Power5+ Chip Boosts Top-end Unix Servers
News IBM has brought the Power5+ processor to its top-end Unix servers, completing the transition and boosting performance during a period of rapid change in the server market. While the idea debuted in mainframes, it's now commonplace on Unix servers...
[July 25, 2006, 10:30]
Unix Servers Fight It Out For Top Spot
News High-end Unix servers run core operations at many large companies, such as the sort of inventory control replicated by the benchmarks. Sun Microsystems has leapfrogged ahead of IBM in one part of a contest to see whose top-end Unix server is more...
[February 12, 2002, 11:46]
Big Blue To Let Squadron Fly At Sun And HP
News IBM will announce two new top-end Unix servers Friday, opening major new challenges to Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. Unix servers, powerful yet fairly standardised, occupy a major part of the computing landscape for tasks such as tracking...
[October 15, 2004, 9:20]
Fujitsu To Unveil 128-CPU Server
News But because its servers run Sun's Solaris operating system, Fujitsu Technology's market overlaps with Sun's, the top Unix-server seller. But while the "Wintel" partnership reshaped the low end of the server market, it had little success penetrating...
[July 12, 2001, 12:33]
IBM Builds On-demand Power Into New Hardware
News IBM said on Thursday it was shipping its new mainframe and servers, including its top-end p690 Unix server, a system the company claims will be 65 percent faster than its predecessor and which will let customers rent more computing power as needed.
[June 19, 2003, 10:28]
IBM And Sun Launch Unix Battle
News IBM and Sun Microsystems next week will release duelling Unix servers one notch below their top-end models, fueling the flames in a price and market-share war. Unix servers, often used for important business tasks such as managing inventory...
[April 8, 2002, 8:53]
HP: Firing Saboteur Boosted Superdome
News The price cut reflects to a certain extent the discounting that already has been widespread in the high-end server market, said Mark Hudson, marketing manager for HP's Unix servers. Unix servers, high-end machines used to house corporate databases...
[November 20, 2001, 9:48]
IBM Edges Out HP In Server Speed Test
News Sun, which has the top market share in Unix servers, has stopped participating in the TPC-C test, arguing that it's no longer representative of true server tasks. The TPC-C test has been dominated by servers running the Unix operating system, but...
[January 3, 2003, 8:05]
IBM Spreads Linux Across More Servers
News The company will begin selling Linux on its entire pSeries line of Unix servers, will cut the product line's prices, and will bring faster 1.9GHz Power4+ chips to the top-end p690 model. Until now, Big Blue has offered Linux only on a handful of...
[February 24, 2004, 11:35]
IBM Plans Top-end 'Armada' Unix Server
News Day expects that IBM will bring the Power5 processor to midrange and low-end Unix servers in the second half of 2004. Current IBM Unix servers can run one copy of the operating system per processor. IBM plans to release a new top-end Unix server in...
[February 10, 2003, 11:55]
IBM Brings Speed To The Low End
News Sun Microsystems has been the top seller of Unix servers for years, and dominates the lower-end market in particular. The new switch can join as many as 16 top-end p690 or midrange p655 Unix servers, and by mid-2004 will support as many as 64, IBM...
[October 20, 2003, 12:45]
HP, Unisys Tout Intel Servers
News Intel servers have traditionally been lower-end, lower-priced systems that ship in larger quantities than do more powerful Unix servers. Intel servers now are creeping up the ladder, however, with Microsoft warming to the high-end server market and...
[December 11, 2002, 6:55]
Sun To Pump Up High-end Servers
News The product overhaul comes at a critical time for Sun, a company striving to maintain its No.ranking in the marketplace for Unix servers, high-powered machines that handle chores such as Hershey Foods' business transactions or the Mt.
[February 5, 2003, 8:09]
HP Plans To Upgrade Integrity Server Line
News HP plans to announce on Thursday that it is upgrading its high-end Integrity server line with Intel's new "Montecito" Itanium processor — a move to counter a resurgent Sun and 2005's Unix server top dog, IBM.
[September 7, 2006, 9:00]
IBM Speeds Up Low-end Unix Server
News Sun long has dominated the lower-end Unix server market, maintaining its product development while others retreated in the face of the onslaught of Intel-based servers running Microsoft Windows, said Illuminata analyst Jonathan Eunice.
[February 24, 2003, 5:54]
Microsoft's Server U-turn
News That system climbed higher than any other Windows server on the most widely watched server speed test, processing transactions about 50 percent faster than the previous Windows champ and within striking distance of the top Unix servers.
[November 25, 2002, 7:47]
Low-spec Niagara On The Way
News It's important enough that Sun will release Niagara before a more conventional processor, the UltraSparc IIIi+, for lower-end Unix servers. Niagara is a crucial processor for Sun, a chip intended to send a message about Sun's commitment to the Unix...
[September 22, 2005, 9:25]
Can IBM's Regatta Take On Two Rivals?
News Unix servers, used for tasks such as tracking inventory or performing stock trades, are the mainstay of the server market. More powerful than Windows servers and less costly than mainframes, Unix servers accounted for $29bn of the $60bn in total...
[December 14, 2001, 12:14]
HP Denies 'tepid' Superdome Server Performance
News The Unix server market has been booming with the arrival of the Internet, the increasing computerisation of Old Economy companies and the slower-than-expected growth of Windows into higher-end servers.
[January 11, 2001, 11:55]
Siebel Expands Partnership With HP, BEA
News Siebel and HP agreed in February to configure Siebel's applications to work with HP's version of the Unix operating system, which runs on servers from low-end dual-processor machines to the top-end 64-processor Superdome.
[October 8, 2002, 9:50]
