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Sweet-16 Server Scores Points For IBM
News IBM posted long-awaited performance scores on Wednesday for its x440 server with 16 Intel Xeon processors, a system it is using to try and impose itself on a key part of the server market. The system was able to perform 151,000 database...
[March 28, 2003, 11:37]
IBM Boosts Servers With New Intel Chips
News IBM on Tuesday said it has updated its xSeries x255, x360 and x440 servers, each designed to use four or more processors, with Intel's newest Xeon MP chips, which run at speeds up to 2GHz. When fully configured, the new servers will cost tens of...
[November 5, 2002, 16:33]
IBM Releases 16-chip Intel Servers
News IBM has begun shipping its 16-processor x440 server, its highest-end mainstream machine using Intel chips, the company plans to announce on Wednesday. The system consists of two 7-inch-tall, eight-processor, rack-mounted systems connected with high...
[December 18, 2002, 8:25]
CeBIT 2002: IBM Squeezes ELiza Into Eight-way Server
News IBM has finally launched its mainframe-class Intel server, the eServer x440, at CeBIT 2002. This is the result of three years of research, development -- and press announcements. The x440 uses fault-tolerant memory, self-healing software and...
[March 13, 2002, 14:51]
IBM Server: Buy Now, Upgrade Later
News IBM is pitching an upgrade-as-you-go server for medium-sized businesses. The new machine, introduced this week, is a version of the company's eServer x440. The new version allows businesses to select two- or four-processor configurations and then...
[August 22, 2002, 15:21]
IBM Itanium 2 Servers Coming By Early 2003
News IBM will debut its first homegrown Itanium 2 servers by the first quarter of 2003, an important step in the years-long arrival of the high-end Intel chip family. IBM has some final testing to work on a version of the x440 server that uses four...
[October 3, 2002, 7:27]
Dell's Customers Wooed By IBM
News IBM has a two-powered plan to lure Dell customers to its servers: point out the holes in its rival's line-up, then offer price cuts on machines that fill the gaps. Next week, the company plans to launch a sales campaign -- "Dell on Ice" -- that...
[August 11, 2003, 10:55]
HP Releases Long-awaited Intel Servers
News Hewlett-Packard has begun selling two important new products, servers with eight Intel Xeon processors that could help recover market share lost to IBM. The new systems, the ProLiant DL760 and DL740, arrived later than HP had hoped to replace an...
[February 18, 2003, 8:41]
IBM Servers To House Third-party Blades
News Nortel Networks will make specialised networking devices to fit into IBM's BladeCenter. These blades, built to fit the slots in the IBM chassis will be the first third-party blades for IBM's system, and will include LAN switches with traffic...
[February 20, 2003, 12:53]
IBM Expanding Further Into Intel's Server Market
News In its attempt to conquer the Intel server market, IBM is working on two new systems that will expand the boundaries of Big Blue's product line. One system, the 32-processor x445 coming later this year, is based on a second version of IBM's EXA...
[March 14, 2003, 8:48]
IBM Plans 2003 Muscle Servers
News IBM is taking the long view for Intel-based servers. The company is poised to release its first "blade" servers and 16-processor Intel-based systems in coming weeks. But right now Big Blue is more focussed its Intel products for 2003, according to...
[November 28, 2002, 7:40]
New CPUs Fuel Server Competition
News It's becoming a buyer's market, in more ways than one. Not only do new servers offer ever-higher performance at better and better prices, but new, self-healing technologies -- such as IBM's eLiza initiative -- and hot-swappable components boost...
[April 17, 2002, 15:11]
New Chip Powers High-end Intel Servers
News Intel has released three new Xeon chips for four- and eight-processor servers in a move to increase the pressure on Sun Microsystems. The new chips -- formerly code-named Gallatin -- are enhanced versions of Intel's Xeon line for multiprocessor...
[November 4, 2002, 8:16]
IBM Touts Second Itanium
News IBM announced on Monday the launch of its second Itanium server, a more powerful machine that can accommodate as many as 16 of the high-end processors from Intel. The new x455 is a relative of the four-Itanium x450, which was IBM's first entry into...
[November 11, 2003, 7:35]
Dell Ditches IBM Server Design For Intel
News Dell has dumped a deal to sell high-end Intel servers using IBM's proprietary "Summit" technology and instead is jointly developing a new chipset with Intel, a senior Dell executive said. Dell has been casting about for a way to offer high-end...
[June 10, 2002, 11:34]
NetCreations: SBS, IBM And Linux Help Maximize And Showcase Cutting Edge DM
White Papers The ability to upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit, at their own pace made the choice of IBM eServer xSeries x440 a natural. Its ability to cut operating costs and footprint size plus the ability to run Linux resulted in a dramatic decrease in expenditures.
[November 13, 2003, 23:00]
Server Virtualization Solution
White Papers The IBM/VMware solution delivers the benefits of virtual machine technology to enterprises looking to reduce the complexity and cost of their data center operations. Through a model that relies on the IBM x440 powered by the Intel Xeon processor MP...
[September 13, 2005, 0:00]
Optimizing The Benefits Of Windows 2003 With IBM's Server Consolidation And Migration Best Practices
White Papers If your company plans on enhancing their security features, reducing their overhead expenses and is looking for new ways to deliver services and scale existing ones, you do not want to miss this Webcast!
[May 20, 2004, 0:00]
Diverse Image Sees The Full Picture With Help From IBM And REAL Solutions
White Papers Diverse Image, part of the international Keating Group, manages brands: specifically, the faithful colour reproduction of images on packaging, cartons, advertising materials and a host of other surfaces and substances.
[October 25, 2004, 0:00]
Nissan Diesel Finds Ten Times More Power At 70 Per Cent Lower Cost With SAP On IBM
White Papers In 1996, Nissan Diesel implemented SAP R/3 on another vendor's UNIX servers, based on ADABAS relational database. This replaced legacy systems, in part to speed processing and in part to tackle the Year 2000 date issue.
[July 10, 2004, 0:00]
