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Characterizing x86 Processors for Industry-Standard Servers: AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon
White Papers The HP ProLiant server portfolio includes systems using the Intel Xeon family of x86 processors and systems using AMD Opteron x86 processors. To help customers understand the implications of these processor architectures on the system platform...
[March 3, 2009, 1:48]
Dell Helps Lead Scale-Out Industry-Standard Server Computing
White Papers Many have turned to server farms, clusters, or grids of x86 industry-standard servers as cost-effective alternatives to larger, proprietary symmetrical multiprocessing systems. As a worldwide leader in delivering x86 industry-standard servers...
[June 18, 2009, 14:43]
Fujitsu Lays Foundation for Virtual Infrastructures
White Papers Indeed, with its PRIMERGY line of x86 servers, Fujitsu is well positioned to support the use of the industry-standard virtualization platforms such as VMware, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5).
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
HP tries to squeeze everybody out
Blog At least that was the boast of HP's vice-president of marketing for what HP calls, industry standard servers, Paul Gottsegen. The latest, from Tuesday's Tech@Work conference in Barcelona is that the company "sells more x86 servers than IBM...
[March 19, 2008, 15:40]
Sun goes big with blade servers
News In a crowded market, Sun is banking on differentiating its new industry-standard servers through their high-capacity, high-speed networking and low cost. The company is claiming a cost-per-gigabyte of $2 (£1.08) for the hybrid servers.
[July 11, 2006, 13:05]
Intel diversifies Itanium family
News Servers that use the chip, which specialises in running complex 64-bit code, have posted some of the highest benchmarks in the industry, according to organisations that tally those results. In a few years, servers that use the chip won't cost any...
[February 19, 2004, 9:20]
Novell starts selling Java-boosted Linux
News Like its predecessors, SLES 9 will support not just "x86" chips such as Intel's Xeon and Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron, but also IBM's Power processor, Intel's Itanium processor and IBM's mainframe servers.
[August 4, 2004, 11:00]
Sun's Orion pricing to arrive within two months
News Although sales of Intel-based lower-end Sun servers are likely to cannibalise some of Sun's UltraSparc-based business, that alternative is better than losing sales to others, Knox said. Grouping lets an administrator make changes to a group of...
[April 30, 2003, 7:46]
Red Hat reaches out with Fedora
News He's one of a handful of programmers working to create a new version of Fedora for computers using IBM's Power processor family -- most commonly the PowerPC used in Macintosh machines, but also the chips in IBM's pSeries servers.
[January 17, 2005, 15:35]
Xen: Enterprise Grade Open Source Virtualization
White Papers In spite of - or indeed because of - the widespread adoption of relatively cheap, industry standard x86-based servers, enterprises have seen costs and complexity escalate rapidly. Virtualization has become a key requirement for the enterprise.
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
TechNet Webcast: Maximize New Server Hardware Potential With Windows Server 2003 Enterprise X64 Edition (Level 200)
White Papers Now that many of the new x86 servers are 64-bit capable, and Windows Server 2003 x64 editions have been on the market for two years, it might be time to take full advantage of x64 technology. The attendee of this webcast will learn about the...
[August 28, 2007, 1:00]
IBM deal will increase Linux software for Power
News The QuickTransit server products for IBM will ship as a standard part of selected IBM Power-based servers," Transitive said in a statement. IBM announced a partnership on Tuesday to significantly expand the software available for customers running...
[August 16, 2006, 9:25]
Sun gives new Solaris away
News Historically, Sun has garnered most of its revenue and profit from selling servers containing its own UltraSparc chip running a more standard version of Solaris. Sun previously charged $20 (£11.45) for evaluation copies of Solaris x86, the version...
[December 16, 2003, 8:35]
Sun gets serious about cheap servers
News Most large corporate customers already own some sort of Sun servers running the standard version of Solaris. We've certainly seen them blow hot and cold in this area," said Hugh Jenkins, vice president of marketing for industry standard servers at...
[May 20, 2003, 7:43]
HP starts selling four-Opteron server
News Last week Sun completed the acquisition of Kealia, a start-up launched by Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim that specialises in Opteron servers. Unlike HP, IBM and Dell, Sun is pushing its own version of Unix for x86 servers, called Solaris.
[April 20, 2004, 8:55]
HP to confirm Opteron server
News HP declined to comment but said in a press statement that Scott Stallard, senior vice president and general manager of HP's Enterprise Storage and Servers group, "will announce the expansion of its industry standard solutions portfolio" on Tuesday.
[February 24, 2004, 7:45]
Sun dismisses HyperTransport
News We're interested in industry-standard interfaces," said Andy Bechtolsheim, a Sun engineer and co-founder whose Kealia products became the foundation of Sun's Galaxy line of x86 servers. Sun is a leading proponent of AMD processors, but its top x86...
[February 28, 2006, 9:55]
IBM set to release Linux-only Power server
News The low cost would position the OpenPower products not only against lower-end Unix servers from Sun Microsystems based on the UltraSparc processor but also against servers from a number of companies using x86 chips such as Intel's Xeon and...
[September 10, 2004, 13:55]
IBM expands Linux offering
News By participating in the programme, independent software vendors will have an easier time porting applications from x86 processor-based servers to servers that run on IBM's Power chips and to IBM mainframes.
[February 15, 2005, 8:05]
Next Red Hat Linux due before March
News Virtualization has been a feature on higher-end servers for years and has arrived on mainstream x86 machines chiefly through software from EMC's VMware subsidiary. The software includes new security features to protect against some attacks, plus a...
[December 29, 2006, 8:33]
