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Servers / Desktop Notes archives
Virtualization, multicore and software wrinkles
July 25, 2006The move to new technologies like multicore processors, server virtualization and grid computing bring the prospects of more efficient data centers. But they also bring with them some challenges. Not the least of which is how vendors will charge for...
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Intel bargains
July 20, 2006Intel reported its second quarter financials this week and things weren't exactly bright. It posted profits of $885 million for the second quarter. That’s less than half of the $2 billion it earned during the same period last year. Intel...
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Dual-core Itanium debuts
July 18, 2006After repeated delays, Intel finally has begun shipping its dual-core Itanium processor, code-named Montecito. As one analyst put it, the release “almost makes [Itanium] competitive with some of the other chips that have been out there for a year or...
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VMware’s free ride
July 12, 2006VMware announced today that its free server virtualization product, VMware Server, is now generally available. The product, which is basically its low-end GSX Server, was first made free in a beta program that began this past February. Since then the...
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Sun’s Opteron rush
July 11, 2006Sun used its quarterly news event this week to unveil a bunch of new Opteron-based products, including a scalable high-end system and a blade server. Welcome Sun back to the blade game. And, according to some analysts, welcome Sun back...
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Gelsinger ga-ga over Woodcrest
July 06, 2006Intel has had a tough couple of years, but it’s back with a vengeance now that it has launched its new Xeon, code-named "Woodcrest." Analysts say Woodcrest is likely what Intel needs to take back some of the market share...
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A glimpse into Google’s data center
July 05, 2006Google is usually pretty quiet about the goings-on inside its data centers, so it’s always interesting to hear any tidbits about the operations of the company’s computer systems....
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HP, Itanium and virtualization
June 29, 2006While much of the server virtualization talk these days centers around x86 platforms, HP this week announced some enhancements to its partitioning technology for Itanium-based Integrity servers. Specifically, HP released a pre-configured package that includes virtualization technology designed for Oracle...
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Dell uses Google Earth for better services
June 28, 2006Dell is rolling out a new high-level service package for customers that gives some pretty cool insight into how service calls are being handled....
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Intel sells communications unit
June 27, 2006The rumors were true. Intel today announced that it is selling its communications and application processor business unit to Marvell Technology Group. The price tag is $600 million....
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Server market getting interesting
June 20, 2006You’ve got lots more platforms to choose from today when it comes to picking the right server. A big reason is that x86 systems are getting more powerful and feature rich....
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HP overhauls blade servers
June 14, 2006HP today unveiled its next generation blade platform with a whole lot of fanfare. Anne Livermore, executive vice president of HP’s technology solutions group, called the new design “a breakthrough architecture” during a Web cast announcing the BladeSystem c-Class. Well,...
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Get ready for Woodcrest
June 13, 2006Word is that Intel will begin shipping its next-generation Xeon processor, code-named Woodcrest, on June 26. That means Woodcrest-running servers won’t be far behind. Should make the summer an interesting time for server buyers....
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Intel focuses on energy efficiency, performance
June 08, 2006AMD continues to eat into Intel’s market share and the AMD customers I talk to just can’t get over how much more energy efficient the Opteron-based servers are. So it’s not surprising to see Intel focusing on energy efficiency and...
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IT with an environmental edge
June 06, 2006If you’re like most IT managers, you’re starting to look more closely at how much energy servers consume and what level of heat they give off. The power/performance measurement is playing a bigger role in server buying decisions. But what...
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Sun to layoff 5,000
June 01, 2006New CEO Jonathan Schwartz is getting down to business at Sun. The company announced this week that its board of directors has signed off on a company plan to return to profitability that will result in as many as 5,000...
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Building virtualization into Linux
May 31, 2006Both Red Hat and Novell are preparing to release Linux distributions that include the open source Xen virtualization capabilities baked in. But they’re also looking at incorporating another open source approach to slicing and dicing physical servers....
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Linux on Sparc
May 30, 2006There is no question now that Sun understands the importance of standards-based systems and open source software. Sun takes another step forward in that realm this week announcing official Linux support for its new Sparc-based T1 servers, code-named Niagara....
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Managing PC blades
May 25, 2006ClearCube created the market for PC blades when it rolled out its first product in 2000. Then, the focus was on the hardware. And the hardware was pretty inflexible: one stripped down client device connecting to the brains of the...
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Dell opens arms to AMD; Intel steps up
May 23, 2006So Dell finally succumbed to the pressure. While discussing its lackluster financials last week, the server maker also announced that it would soon be shipping Opteron-based servers....
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Consolidation and growth – trends in the new data center
May 18, 2006Nemertes Research polled dozens of IT executives earlier this year to find out what is top of mind for today’s data center customers. Here are the four big trends the survey uncovered: consolidation, growth, availability and operational efficiency....
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HP and data center consolidation
May 17, 2006If you’re in the middle of consolidating your data center or planning a data center move, HP can relate. HP today announced it plans to consolidate its existing 85 data centers around the globe into six larger facilities – two...
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Planning a data center move
May 16, 2006Moving a data center is no easy feat – especially when it’s supporting a 24/7 Web storefront and more than three dozen retail stores. But Boscov’s Department Stores did it....
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Novell Ships SUSE Linux 10.1
May 11, 2006While we wait for the official release of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 this summer, Novell is giving us a taste of what’s to come. Novell announced the availability of SuSE Linux 10.1 today....
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Unisys rolls out new server, business continuity service
May 11, 2006Unisys has introduced the latest addition to its ES7000 server line. It also introduced a new business continuity service that provides data protection at a low price point, the company claims....
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Mainframes and SOA
May 09, 2006Call it the modern mainframe. While some naysayers may question the relevance of the mainframe in today’s data centers, IBM continues to push the big iron. Just this week, Big Blue announced a number of updates to its most reliable...
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Sun targets Azul, Part II
May 04, 2006Sun is stepping up its battle with Azul. The systems vendor this week filed suit in U.S. District Court in California asking that Azul Systems be forced to stop infringing on Sun patents and that it be ordered to pay...
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AMD focuses on energy in Times Square
May 03, 2006AMD is pulling out the big guns when it comes to pushing the energy efficiency of its Opteron processor. This week, the chipmaker unveiled a huge billboard in Times Square that ticks off the dollars that it says are being...
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Virtual Iron gets more cash
May 02, 2006Software giant SAP is throwing its support behind Virtual Iron, which builds software for creating and managing virtual servers. While the companies didn’t say how much money SAP is contributing, observers say it’s around $3.5 million....
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Three years a charm for AMD
April 26, 2006AMD is celebrating the third anniversary of its Opteron processor with some pretty good looking numbers. The chip maker has been steadily raising its profile in the enterprise market and it’s showing in its expanding market share....
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Sun sets for McNealy
April 25, 2006After 22 years at the helm of Sun, Scott McNealy is calling it quits. He’s not leaving the company, just handing over responsibility. Jonathan Schwartz, who was Sun’s president and COO, is taking over as CEO....
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Green Machines
April 24, 2006After July 1 the servers – and other IT hardware – you buy most likely will be environmentally friendly. That’s because a European Union directive called RoHS is going into effect and it’s causing changes in how products are manufactured...
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Sun delays faster version of UltraSparc IV+
April 21, 2006Suns says the speed bump for its UltraSparc IV+ processor won’t come this quarter as originally planned. At a company event in Tokyo, David Yen, executive vice president of Sun’s Scalable Systems Group, said that the 1.8 GHz version of...
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Tackling data center heat, power issues … together
April 20, 2006Power and cooling is at the top of the list when it comes to data center concerns. All major systems vendors have been working on ways to make powerful systems that run cooler. This week, AMD announced a plan to...
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Univa launches open source grids
April 19, 2006Univa, the company founded by the guys who created the open source Globus Toolkit for designing and managing grids, has rolled out its first product....
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Oracle and Linux
April 18, 2006Oracle is snapping up open source software companies. According to a story in the Financial Times this week, it also looked at buying a Linux distributor -- namely, Novell....
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Energy efficient servers
April 17, 2006Heat and energy issues are becoming increasingly vexing for IT managers with today’s smaller, higher-performing servers. All of the major server vendors are tackling the issue. Just last week, Sun combined forces with the Environmental Protection Agency to start work...
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The skinny on blades
April 14, 2006If you’re deploying blade servers – or thinking about it – you should keep an eye on the goings on in Garden Grove, Calif., next week. That’s where this year’s Server Blade Summit will be held....
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Continuing on with CoolThreads
April 12, 2006Sun today introduced the entry level version of its new server line based on the multicore UltraSparc T1 processor. The Sun Fire T1000 complements the Sun Fire T2000 that the server maker rolled out late last year....
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Red-Boss
April 11, 2006I return from vacation to some pretty interesting news: JBoss’ decision to join forces with Red Hat. It’s a good move. And one that should benefit enterprise customers....
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Goodwill helped drive the security overhaul of open source portal software
April 07, 2006Interesting story this week by my colleague Ann Bednarz on Goodwill Industries influence on the development of an open source portal product form Liferay....
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A look at Cisco, Juniper, Microsoft and TCG's access-control schemes
April 06, 2006Network World author Joel Snyder takes a look at a subject near and dear to to anyone running a data center – who do you let and how do you control access to corporate resources. In this case he takes...
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Making software affordable on multicore chips
March 31, 2006IBM this week announced a new pricing plan for customers running its middleware apps on multicore servers from Sun. The UltraSparc T1 servers, codenamed Niagara, were introduced by Sun in December. They include eight processing cores on a single piece...
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Bowdoin backs virtualization
March 29, 2006Bowdoin College has got virtualization fever. The small liberal arts school in Brunswick, Maine, is one of a growing number of organizations that is finding real benefits in virtualizing industry standard servers....
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Novell says goodbye to another Linux exec
March 28, 2006SuSE CTO Juergen Geck is parting ways with Novell. Geck is just the latest in a long line of SuSE executives who have said goodbye to Novell since it acquired the Linux distributor in 2004....
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Sun takes first steps with 'infrastructure on demand'
March 23, 2006More than a year after laying out the grand vision, Sun finally has hit the switch on a new grid service that offers enterprise buyers – and anyone with a PayPal account – access to compute cycles on demand. It’s...
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Hats off to Fedora Core 5
March 22, 2006Red hat this week took the wraps off the latest version of its free Fedora Linux distribution. It’s this community-backed project where the features in Red Hat’s enterprise distribution are taken for a test drive....
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Show time for grids
March 21, 2006I think it’s been a couple years now that we’ve been talking about how grid computing is making its way from high performance computing in science and academia into business data centers. It’s not surprising since grids offer the hardware...
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Have Integrity
March 20, 2006HP on Monday unveiled the latest update to its Itanium-based Integrity line of servers. It also announced updates to its HP-UX 11i operating system, which provide some pretty cool capabilities to share workloads across geographically distributed servers....
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Sun targets Azul
March 17, 2006Azul Systems must be doing something right. Why else would Sun be spending time and money threatening the small start-up with litigation?...
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Slicing and dicing Linux
March 15, 2006This year will be a good one for companies that want to start really taking advantage of virtualization in Linux environments. While VMware has been offering virtualization technology on x86 servers for years, the major Linux distributors are preparing to...
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Building up to an 8-way blade
March 14, 2006Looking for a blade server to run demanding database applications? Or want a hefty – yet space saving – platform for consolidating servers? Fujitsu has got something for you. This week the computer maker announced a new 8-way blade system....
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OSDL: Users asking for Linux desktops
March 13, 2006Now that Novell has introduced its business-user-friendly Linux desktop, we’ll probably start seeing more interest and activity around bringing the open source operating system to client devices. You might even hear employees start asking for it....
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Putting the penguin on your PC
March 10, 2006Linux has become a mainstream option on servers, but its march on to the desktop has been a slow one. Novell is hoping the next release of its Linux desktop will help speed things up. SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, which...
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McNealy on the way out?
March 09, 2006Caris & Company research analyst Mark Stahlman apparently believes that Sun CEO Scott McNealy may be getting ready to part ways with Sun. I guess McNealy has said that he would stay on at Sun only as long as there...
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Take a bite of Apple
March 08, 2006Every now and then we get emails from readers wondering why we don’t place a larger focus on Apple. We do write about Apple, but for the most part Macs just haven’t made large inroads into the enterprise (except, of...
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Eye on Itanium
March 07, 2006Noticed all the buzz around Itanium lately? Even as Intel continues to, as one analyst put it, “slip and slide” when it comes to the troubled processor, its largest backers, HP and Intel, are beating the rah-rah Itanium drum....
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Building out the data center
March 06, 2006Remember the days when thousands of square feet of data center space sat idle? Well not any more. There’s a data center building boom brewing. It’s similar to what happened in the late 1990s when service providers and real estate...
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Google googly-eyed for AMD?
March 03, 2006As Intel prepares for its big developer forum next week the Web is atwitter with talk that Internet powerhouse Google is in AMD’s camp when it comes to choosing low-end servers....
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Solaris-UX?
March 02, 2006When it comes to merging HP-UX, HP’s version of Unix, with Sun’s Solaris, Sun refuses to give up. Sun has been beating that drum since the beginning of the year when HP announced that it would support Solaris across its...
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Playing with the big boys
March 01, 2006Virtualization is the buzzword of the moment in enterprise data centers. There are dozens of companies claiming to offer services in the virtualization arena. So, it’s not a surprise if you’re a bit confused about what products or services are...
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Tucci: Wish I could buy 10 VMwares
February 28, 2006If there was any thought that EMC might spin out VMware, Joe Tucci put that idea to rest at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium being held in Phoenix this week....
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It's the database, stupid
February 27, 2006I’m in sunny Phoenix for the day to check out the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium. Company execs are taking their turns in the hot seat (not unlike our very own Network World hot seat) as Goldman Sachs analysts throw...
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U.S. PC buyers, meet Lenovo
February 24, 2006Yes, you may know Chinese computer company Lenovo because of its acquisition of IBM’s PC division last year. But, if you’re like me, when you hear the name ThinkPad, you probably still think IBM....
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The SCO saga raises its ugly head
February 23, 2006Forgotten about the whole SCO/IBM brouhaha? Or, better yet, have you been waiting on the edge of your seat for the next big development? Well, here it is....
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Buyers snap up x86 servers
February 22, 2006Corporations are consolidating more workloads on low-end servers that increasingly are offering more processing oomph....
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Virtualization, security grab spotlight in new data center
February 21, 2006Virtualization and security are key themes playing through our New Data Center supplement this week...
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Laugh time
February 17, 2006After a long week of serious IT projects, I figured it was time for a laugh. Check out our story this week about all those wacky requests you and your staff get from end users....
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Things looking up at HP
February 16, 2006HP reported its first quarter results and the news was good. I guess Mark Hurd’s restructuring plan is bearing fruit....
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Ex-Veritas exec takes the reins at XenSource
February 15, 2006Like any startup, XenSource is going through its share of growing pains and management changes are just part and parcel of that. Today, the company announced that ex-Veritas executive and former venture capitalist Peter Levine is taking the reins....
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Sun to Lintel users: come on down
February 14, 2006Sun is opening up the specs to its new UltraSparc T1 servers in a bid to drive interest in its so-called “CoolThreads” multithreading technology. The idea is to position the eight-core servers as a great platform not just for Solaris...
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Zero downtime
February 13, 2006Analysts say the latest updates to SWsoft’s virtualization software brings it more in line with offerings from the likes of VMware....
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In the hot seat
February 10, 2006A recent survey by Robert Frances Group highlights the increasing focus on power and cooling issues in enterprise data centers. RFG says that while power and cooling may not be at the top of every IT manager’s list of concerns...
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Inouye calls it quits at Gateway
February 09, 2006Wayne Inouye came to Gateway in 2004 with plans to revitalize the struggling computer maker. At the time, Gateway executives were hopeful that the acquisition of eMachines, where Inouye was CEO, would help return it to profitability. It did just...
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Pump up power
February 08, 2006IBM is making its big BladeCenter announcements today, but Big Blue also took time this week to focus on its Power processor....
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AMD gives hardware virtualization a kick
February 07, 2006Get ready for x86 processors to have the same kind of innate partitioning capabilities as higher-end Unix chips. Both Intel and AMD say they’ll be shipping chips with virtualization features baked-in sometime this year....
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XenSource looking for leader
February 06, 2006XenSource, the company formed to foster the development of the Xen open source virtualization technology and sell subscription and support services for it, is shaking things up at the top...
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Data Center World
February 03, 2006As companies focus on simplifying their data centers it seems like those charged with managing these facilities are facing increasingly complex challenges. Issues such as heat, space and power all are becoming more pressing as increasingly powerful systems are packed...
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IBM cozies up with retail
February 02, 2006Every week, my colleague Deni Connor expounds on all things server-related in her twice-weekly server newsletter. Check out one of her recent issues here....
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IBM to revamp blades
February 01, 2006Word is that IBM is set to revamp its BladeCenter and introduce its first blade based on the PowerPC 970MP. The buzz is that the news will be announced at an event IBM is holding in New York City next...
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i5 Facelift
January 31, 2006IBM this week announced that it is refreshing its midrange i5 line of servers with faster Power5+ processors and an updated i5/OS operating system designed to better support Linux, AIX and Windows on a single system....
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The heat is on
January 30, 2006Things are getting hot in today's data centers with smaller servers handling bigger workloads. So what are vendors doing to help you keep things cool?...
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Itanium gets cash
January 27, 2006Itanium sure has taken its share of beatings over the last few years. But supporters of the 64-bit chip continue to give the processor new hope....
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Sun on the Hot Seat
January 26, 2006While there still may be questions about whether Sun Microsystems will be able to turn itself around, one thing is for sure: the company isn’t boring. And Greg Papadopoulos, executive vice president and CTO of Sun, has the same thing...
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The i Factor
January 23, 2006IBM’s iSeries continues plugging away as a highly reliable workhorse in dozens of enterprise data centers. Last year, IBM made a commitment to the iSeries to the tune of $1 billion. It also named a new general manager....
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Linux going virtual
January 20, 2006Server virtualization is getting a lot of attention these days and so is Linux, as the open source operating system becomes a platform for key business applications. So it’s not surprising to see a focus on integrating virtualization into Linux....
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Stay Cool
January 18, 2006Heat and power issues in the data center are becoming more important as IT infrastructure becomes more and more dense. Two events in the next couple weeks address those issues head-on....
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Open source not just for Linux
January 17, 2006So, the idea of running cheaper, open source software in some areas of your data center sounds appealing, but you don’t want to rip out Windows and deploy Linux? Well, you don’t have to....
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Real world virtualization
January 13, 2006Virtualization stands to be one of the hottest technologies for 2006. IDC is planning a Virtualization Forum in February that looks like it’s worth checking out....
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Get your free Oracle DB here
January 11, 2006Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Sun CEO Scott McNealy held a rah-rah get-together for employees this week, talking up the close partnership between the two companies and their plans for 2006....
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What's on tap
January 09, 2006It’s that time when we all try to figure out what’s going to be hot in the year ahead. Check out our package of stories highlighting the technologies we consider to be burning the brightest in 2006....
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Benched
January 03, 2006So, did 2005 include enough server benchmarks for you? Are you looking forward to more in 2006? I’m just wondering what vendor-generated benchmarks really mean for corporate buyers....
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Easy as pie (virtually)
December 22, 2005If we had to pick just one theme to describe the goings-on in your data center in 2006, virtualization would probably be a good bet. From servers to storage to desktops, it’s all about carving up physical systems into multiple...
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Sun plays Santa
December 20, 2005Sun is getting into the Christmas mood a little early, hoping to stuff your IT stocking with its new Niagara-based servers....
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Sun lagging in Unix customers' eyes
December 16, 2005A new report by Gabriel Consulting Group found that Sun Microsystems, which still leads the Unix market in terms of the number of systems installed, lags rivals IBM and HP when it comes to customer satisfaction....
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Open house at IBM
December 15, 2005Systems vendors continue to court the open source community. This week was a particularly earnest one for IBM....
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Seeing double, or triple or ...
December 12, 2005There’s no question that virtualization has moved beyond hype for x86 systems. Sure it’s true that slicing and dicing physical systems into multiple, isolated containers is something that has its roots in the very high end on mainframes and Unix...
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Giving away the store?
December 05, 2005Sun is continuing its transformation into the Red Hat of systems vendors with plans to open source virtually all of its software....
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Speaking of Red Hat
December 05, 2005Stratus Technologies has been offering Intel-based fault-tolerant servers running Linux for sometime....
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Scaling back the farm
December 05, 2005Look for Azul Systems at this week's Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas....
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A server here, a server there
November 28, 2005IDC just released its third quarter numbers for 2005 and said that end user spending on servers grew 8% to $12.5 billion in the third quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago....
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Peer pressure?
November 28, 2005A big buzz in the server market during the past week or so has been that lone AMD-holdout Dell is flirting with the possibility of selling machines based on AMD's processors....
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Going deeper with open source
November 28, 2005Open source options just keep getting better....
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Solaris has legs
November 21, 2005The Unix market has been anything but stellar of late even as server vendors continue to push their Risc products....
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64-bit by bit
November 21, 2005Server virtualization specialist SWsoft rolled out its Windows-based product this summer and last week updated the software with support for 64-bit environments....
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Show me the money
November 14, 2005IBM of late has taken a strong interest in this whole idea of PC blades, where the intelligence of PCs are centralized and secured away from user’s desktops....
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What's in your rack?
November 14, 2005Rackspace Managed Hosting is a San Antonio-based service provider that gives its customers two platform options: servers using Intel Xeon processors or servers using AMD Opteron processors....
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Dukes up
November 07, 2005Intel has been watching its back the past year or so as AMD makes strides with Opteron, its challenger to Xeon. Things are really heating up now as Intel alters its processor roadmap and startups and end users cozy up...
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Dell doldrums
November 07, 2005Speaking of the Opteron factor, at least one financial analyst points to Dell's reluctance to embrace Opteron as one reason why Dell's numbers are slipping. "We believe the current Opteron processor offers several advantages - performance, price, and heat generation...
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Gatherings for open source
November 07, 2005Interested in the use of open source in government and educational institutions? Check out the 2005 Open Source Forum in Minnesota. The forum is being held in conjunction with the 24th annual Minnesota Government Information Technology Symposium Dec. 13-15 at...
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Getting modular
October 31, 2005IBM made a pretty big deal out of its new hosted PC blade offering that it is rolling out with VMware and Citrix....
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More dual core
October 31, 2005Intel is expected to launch its dual-core Xeons for multi-processor servers this week. It introduced its first dual-core Xeons - for one- and two-way servers - in early October. IBM, Dell and Gateway area all rolling out servers based on...
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Virtual Iron
October 31, 2005Virtual Iron is expanding its virtualization software to support Opteron-based servers and is also fine tuning it for IBM BladeCenter systems. Virtual Iron launched earlier this year with a unique approach to server virtualization: Instead of simply slicing up single...
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Follow the Sun
October 24, 2005Sun Microsystems is focused on growing its business in a lot of areas. Not the least of which is in the low-end server market....
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Corralling the desktop
October 24, 2005ClearCube pretty much created the market for blade PCs when it rolled out its first product in 2000....
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Hurd for Itanium
October 24, 2005Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor was slow to take off and is facing additional pressure from x86 processors that now support 64-bit environments....
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Split personality
October 10, 2005AMD introduced its dual-core Opteron processor in April, putting the pressure once again on Intel to bring its Xeons up to speed....
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X86 getting beefy
October 10, 2005It used to be that when IT managers wanted high-performance, advanced management features and reliability, they had to look to the high-end and put applications on big, expensive servers. Not anymore....
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Sun enters new Galaxy
September 12, 2005Sun's long-awaited Galaxy servers make their debut this week....
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Stratus steps up availability
September 12, 2005In 2003, Stratus Technologies rolled out its lower cost Intel-based fault tolerant systems, opening up the highly available servers to cost conscious IT managers....
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Get ready for GridWorld
September 12, 2005If there was any doubt that grid computing is getting increased interest from enterprise IT buyers, the fact that IDG World Expo (a sister company of Network World) is planning a grid-focused conference may put those to rest....
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Server stats
August 29, 2005IDC just released its quarterly server market share data and it shows that the server market is continuing to grow....
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Microsoft puts price tag on virtualization
August 29, 2005Microsoft executives say they "agonized" over the decision about whether to make their upcoming virtual server product free....
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Oracle lone hold out
August 29, 2005If you paid attention to last week's Intel Developer Forum, you know that dual-core and multi-core chips are the new way of the world....
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Intel doubles down
August 22, 2005We all suspected it and now Intel has confirmed it: the chipmaker rushed to roll out its dual-core processor in the hope of beating AMD to the punch....
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Bridging blades
August 22, 2005If you're bringing blades into your data center, it's likely because you're looking to streamline things....
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Linux time
August 08, 2005The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo kicks off this week in San Francisco (see our LinuxWorld news page). It's no big surprise that the show will focus on security, the use of open source applications on top of Linux, virtualization with...
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Getting Virtual
August 08, 2005Virtual Iron is a pretty cool start-up. It's doing some interesting things with virtualization. Like competitors such as VMware, Microsoft and SWsoft, it slices and dices single physical servers in multiple virtual machines. But it adds a twist that analysts...
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Big Blue news
July 25, 2005IBM is holding a "significant" event in New York City Tuesday. While Big Blue is mum on the details, word is they will be refreshing their high-end z990 mainframe....
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A lean, mean fighting machine?
July 25, 2005HP employees are on the chopping block again. CEO Mark Hurd, whose taste for cost-cutting and focus on the bottom line played a large part in him landing his job at HP earlier this year, took a few more steps...
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So long Interex
July 25, 2005It came as a surprise to many when Interex closed its doors last week....
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The waiting game
July 11, 2005I guess we all should have known that a Nov. 1 trial date for the SCO vs. IBM case would be too good to be true....
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Connecting the blades
July 05, 2005Since Dell got back in the blade game last year with its PowerEdge 1855, it has been focusing on making blades a mainstream part of the data center....
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Virtuozzo now playing on Windows
July 05, 2005After running in betas and limited releases for months, SWsoft’s server virtualization software is now generally available for Windows environments....
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Network the key to grids
June 27, 2005There's been a lot of talk about enterprise grids lately....
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IBM gets into application virtualization
June 27, 2005IBM is stepping up its virtualization offerings with technology focused on moving applications among systems....
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AMD on multi-core
June 20, 2005The industry is moving to multi-core platforms and analysts predict that all servers shipped will contain at least two cores on each piece of silicon by the end of next year....
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Super-duper
June 20, 2005The International Supercomputer Conference opens in Heidelberg, Germany, on Tuesday....
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Multi-core performance
June 13, 2005As application performance demands grow, data centers require more computing power in a smaller box so that more servers can fit in a rack....
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Fault tolerant Windows
June 13, 2005Stratus Technologies is expanding its line of fault tolerant systems with the ftServer 4600 that is built on a custom designed chipset that the company says boosts performance by 66% over its predecessor, the ftServer 5600....
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Windows power on demand
June 13, 2005When you think of getting processing capacity on demand, you typically think of Unix and mainframes....
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Soft costs
June 13, 2005New data center technologies such as server virtualization, grid computing and multicore processors are bringing new flexibility to IT environments....
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Intel gets a bite of Apple
June 06, 2005Apple is trading in the IBM PowerPC chips that power its computers for Intel silicon....
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End of the line for PA-RISC
May 30, 2005It's full steam ahead for HP’s move to standardize on the Intel platform....
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Hello, Linux
May 30, 2005High profile customers are talking up Linux and its readiness to support heavy-duty applications in the financial, travel and airline industries....
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Red Hat direct
May 23, 2005Open source continues to make strides in enterprise data centers. But today what the open source community offers as far as free directory software is somewhat limited....
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Stepping up system management
May 23, 2005A startup whose founders have their roots in the telecom industry is promising a new breed of server management that doesn’t involve the headaches associated with deploying software agents across your server farm....
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Fujitsu PrimePowers up
May 23, 2005Fujitsu has boosted the speed of some of its PrimePower Unix servers....
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IBM gets into Opteron blade game
May 09, 2005IBM took the lead with 32-/64-bit Opteron, becoming the first major systems vendor to offer a product when it introduced its eServer 325 in July of 2003....
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Egenera keeping it private
May 09, 2005Egenera, a pioneer in the blade server market, is also a frontrunner in this whole virtualization, utility computing phenomenon....
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Double the fun
April 25, 2005The dual-core x86 era has begun. AMD last week officially launched its dual-core Opterons and HP, IBM and Sun all announced that they would be shipping products in the next few months....
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Model data centers
April 25, 2005Network World and AFCOM, the organization for data center professionals, have singled out Oracle as a leader when it comes to data center innovation....
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Simplifying open source
April 25, 2005If you’re like most data center managers these days you’re taking a closer look at open source software....
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Dual core debuts
April 18, 2005Dual core has been around for some time in Unix machines, but this week x86 gets its dual-core wings....
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Cisco connects with Topspin
April 18, 2005How system resources connect with each other and share data is becoming increasingly important as IT managers incorporate virtualization, blades, grids and clustering into their data centers....
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Tough quarter
April 18, 2005The earnings news was less than encouraging last week as companies like IBM and Sun announced results that failed to meet expectations....
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New HP Honcho
March 30, 2005HP this week announced that former NCR chief Mark Hurd is taking the reins at HP. Hurd's appointment is effective April 1, when he also will join HP's board of directors. Hurd replaces Carly Fiorina, who was ousted in February...
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Marriage made in heaven?
March 21, 2005The content delivery market has been marred over the last few years by the constant legal back and forth between its major players (<>)....
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iSeries innovation
March 21, 2005IBM’s iSeries has kind of a fad following - loyal users who would never turn away from the systems. But the servers haven’t been embraced widely....
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Getting the best out of open source
March 21, 2005Black Duck Software is making a name for itself by rolling out products that help end users sort through open source licenses to make sure there are no conflicts....
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Everything Intel
March 07, 2005There wasn’t much as far as hard, shipping product news at the Intel Developer Forum, but there was a lot of interesting talk about what IT managers can expect from Intel-based systems down the road....
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Blade bandwagon
March 07, 2005The blade server market is growing fast, but there is just one show that’s focused strictly on these compact computing machines: the Server Blade Summit....
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Does your data center stand out?
March 07, 2005Network World is partnering with AFCOM, an organization dedicated to data center professionals, to give some of you out there a pat on the back....
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IBM gives iSeries a big hug
February 28, 2005IBM wants you to know it has no plans to step away from its venerable iSeries midmarket server....
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IBM tops in server sales
February 28, 2005IBM can thank strong sales of its Power5 based systems for giving it the lead in the worldwide server market....
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HP links servers/storage
February 28, 2005HP last week rolled out storage management software that it says will put an end to isolated islands of servers and storage in enterprise data centers....
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So long, Carly
February 14, 2005Carly Fiorina’s five and a half year reign at HP is over....
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Grids catching on in the enterprise
February 14, 2005It’s been a year or so now that enterprise IT managers have been taking a closer look at grid technology as a way to boost performance and get better utilization of data center resources....
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Eye on Linux
February 14, 2005What are your plans for Linux in your data center? Where ever you are with Linux projects, turn your attention to Boston this week....
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CPUs on the block
February 07, 2005Sun last week jumped with both feet into the utility computing arena, announcing its Sun Grid utilities that the company says let users plug in and get computing power and storage just like they would get electricity from a socket....
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Hooking blades up
February 07, 2005It’s clear blades are getting a closer look from IT managers who like the compact nature of the systems....
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The nitty-griddy
January 31, 2005A year ago the big buzzword was utility computing. Today, grid computing seems to be the term on everybody’s lips....
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Letting Solaris free
January 31, 2005Sun finally made good on its promise and last week announced that it was releasing its Solaris operating system to the open source community....
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Sun calls for customer choice
January 24, 2005These are good days for enterprise customers as systems vendors move to be more open and flexible when it comes to hardware and software....
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Stepping up Itanium
January 24, 2005Bill Worley, the man behind Itanium, is hoping to inject some excitement into the Itanium marketplace....
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Cool down for BladeCenter
January 24, 2005IBM last week took aim at key problems associated with today’s blade servers: too much power and too much heat....
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PC virtualization coming sooner than you think
January 24, 2005Intel last week said that it was pushing up the timeline to put its virtualization technology - codenamed Vanderpool -- into its PC chips....
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HP highlights Itanium
January 18, 2005HP this week shines the spotlight on its Itanium 2-based Integrity servers....
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Corralling PCs
January 18, 2005Server virtualization specialist VMware is bringing its expertise to the world of PC management....
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Sun on the rise?
January 14, 2005While things seemed to be looking up for Sun Microsystems, a gloomy atmosphere preceded its earnings announcement on Thursday....
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HP: Goodbye, Mr. Chips
December 20, 2004In the early 1990s, HP and Intel teamed up to design a new 64-bit processor that was supposed to revolutionize computing and replace the 32-bit Xeon chip....
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Blade Summit
December 20, 2004The blade server market continues to grow at a rapid pace. IDC says blade shipments were up 44% in the third quarter compared to the same period a year ago....
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Open arms
December 20, 2004Speaking of blades - IBM in September opened up the design specifications for its BladeCenter products in an effort to encourage third-party hardware vendors to build products specifically for Big Blue’s blades....
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PCI-Express Bandwagon
December 13, 2004Things are starting to get moving around a new serial I/O technology designed to take the place of your traditional PCI bus....
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Penguin gets into blades
December 13, 2004One of the ideas behind blades is to be able to pack a bunch of these extra-slim servers into your data center and then cluster the systems with software to get a pool of computing resources....
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Controlling power
December 06, 2004Data center heat output and power consumption are becoming increasingly important issues as vendors continue to pack more processing power into smaller spaces....
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HP clustering the Veritas way
December 06, 2004HP’s rivals have taken shots at the server maker, claiming the company that is transitioning to an Intel-only platform is neglecting its Unix business....
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Sun opens up
December 06, 2004The general industry consensus lately has been that Sun Microsystems may finally be on the upswing....
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Polyserve clusters Oracle on Linux
November 29, 2004Polyserve is expected to announce this week a software clustering product for Oracle databases running on Linux. In the Oracle HA (High Availability) Solution for Linux, servers are clustered with storage arrays. If one server fails, other servers in the...
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Two new servers from IBM
October 18, 2004IBM last week announced two new servers equipped with as many as 64 POWER5 processors....
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New Stratus server
September 20, 2004Stratus this week is introducing a new entry-level fault tolerant server for businesses that require business continuity. The ftServer W Series 2300 server gives 99.999% uptime and is designed for use in distribution centers, warehouses, branch offices and retail chains....
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Microsoft rolls out virtual machine technology
September 14, 2004Microsoft last week stepped into the server virtualization market with the introduction of Virtual Server 2005....
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Intel, IBM: Combatible blade spec
September 06, 2004IBM and Intel last week announced what they call an open blade server specification intended to encourage vendors to manufacture IBM BladeCenter compatible products....
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Server virtualization in the news
August 30, 2004Server virtualization is heating up with several new resources. Microsoft is rumored to have released its Virtual Server 2005 to manufacturing. The company who acquired Connectix last year has had an early release beta of Virtual Server available for a...
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More power to ya
August 23, 2004Since introducing its first Power5 based servers in May, IBM has been on a tear adding to the lineup. First Big Blue introduced the Power5-based i5 servers and then in July took the wraps off Power5-based p5s....
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The waiting game
August 23, 2004An SAP AG order processing and supply-chain system that caused the bulk of the problems for HP’s Enterprise Servers and Storage group last quarter is still being massaged. HP executives told customers at the HP World user conference last week...
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Inside Intel
August 23, 2004IT managers looking to stay on the cutting edge of where Intel-based technology - and technology in general - is heading should mark their calendars for the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The fall IDF will be held Sept....
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HP server shakeup
August 16, 2004HP last week reported a 9% jump in revenue for the third quarter, climbing to $18.89 billion from the $17.35 billion it posted in the same quarter a year ago. The growth was attributed largely to strong performance in its...
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It’s an HP World
August 16, 2004HP’s annual user conference gets underway on Monday in Chicago. Organizers Encompass and Interex expect 7,000 business customers and partners to attend the event that runs all this week and will include detailed information about HP’s strategies and technologies. HP...
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Data Center Powwow
August 16, 2004AFCOM, an organization of data center managers, MIS directors, CIOS and other IS professionals, is gearing up for its fall conference. The Fall ’04 Data Center World Conference and Expo will be held in Atlanta October 3-6....
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eBay Boxes
August 09, 2004Server vendors are taking an interesting route to expanding their customer reach: They’re auctioning off equipment on eBay. Sun has made the biggest splash of late, announcing that its newest Opteron server, the V40z, would be up for bids on...
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Unisys strays from Microsoft
August 09, 2004Still looking for proof that Linux is moving into the mainstream? Consider Unisys’ announcement last week that it would support Linux on its high-end ES7000 servers....
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Real world lessons
August 09, 2004While most shows promise some level of real world information from IT executives like you, an upcoming data center management conference is designed to do nothing but that....
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Giving Xeon 64-bits
August 02, 2004It’s widely agreed upon in industry circles that the success of AMD’s Opteron microprocessor, which runs both 32- and 64-bit applications equally well, was what pushed Intel to finally show its hand....
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The EM64T server lineup
August 02, 2004The 64-bit enabled Xeons are here for dual processor servers. Business customers can take their pick from systems that will be rolled out Monday by IBM, HP and Dell. Here’s a run down....
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Penguin party
August 02, 2004LinuxWorld convenes this week in San Francisco with big vendors such as HP, IBM and Sun topping the list of companies planning announcements....
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The cost of advancement
July 26, 2004Last week I wrote about some of the hidden costs associated with new, multicore chips that are starting to take over the server landscape. Today, Sun, HP and IBM all have dual-core systems that put two processors on a single...
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Solaris on Power5?
July 26, 2004Sun last week reported a profit of $795 million, or 24 cents per share, in its fourth quarter, compared with a loss of $1.039 billion, or 32 cents per share, in the same quarter a year ago. thanks in large...
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Sun’s x86 push no joke
July 23, 2004Sure, you could say Sun’s history with x86 systems has been wishy-washy at best. But users interested in these low-priced systems should be taking a closer look at Sun these days. Last November, the server maker announced a wide-ranging partnership...
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Powering up
July 19, 2004IBM upped the ante in the Unix server market last week when it finally took the wraps off new systems based on its Power5 chip. The new servers, which now take on the moniker p5 to fall in line with...
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What’s on the horizon for Sun
July 19, 2004A couple of weeks ago I sat down with John Fowler, Sun’s former software CTO, who is now head of the newly formed Network Systems group at the company. It was a wide ranging discussion in which Fowler touched on...
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Stratus eyes Intel
July 19, 2004Stratus Technologies, which specializes in highly-fault tolerant systems, is migrating its proprietary VOS operating system to Intel-based servers. The company plans to scrap its Continuum servers that run on PA-RISC today and launch an Intel-based ftServer V (V for VOS)...
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Blades standardizing?
July 05, 2004The news that Dell is planning to jump back in to the blade market this year provides some interesting food for thought on the blade market. Does this mean blades, which had been slow to take off, but are now...
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Dell details
July 05, 2004So here’s the scoop on the new Dell blade. A Dell spokeswoman tells me the server maker will launch a “totally new” blade product in the fourth quarter this year and will provide three things: full server-class features and functionality,...
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VMware users unite
July 05, 2004VMware, which makes software to virtualize x86-based systems is calling you. The company, which has partnered with major server vendors such as HP and IBM is holding its first user conference this fall....
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Driving InfiniBand with open source
June 21, 2004A group of systems vendors, InfiniBand companies and high performance computing users have joined forces to create a Linux-based software stack for InfiniBand. The idea is to create standard drivers that will be embedded in the Linux operating system to...
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Grids take flight
June 21, 2004Are you starting to think more closely about ways to pool your compute resources into some type of grid architecture? If so, you’re not alone. Analysts expect grid deployments in corporate data centers to move closer to reality over the...
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Powering down to size
June 21, 2004Heat and power concerns are becoming bigger issues in the data center as users deploy denser systems in smaller spaces. My colleague Deni Connor and I have written about some of the issues facing data center managers today and how...
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Here a blade, there a blade
June 14, 2004OK, it seems like blade servers are really starting to come into their own. HP last week made a big blitz about its blade business, saying that it has shipped 100,000 of the svelte servers so far. It also made...
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Managing blades
June 14, 2004Speaking of blades, I’d like to hear from you about what your plans are regarding deploying these systems and how important management of the servers is. This week blade pioneer RLX will be unveiling the sixth generation of its management...
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A softer, friendlier Sun
June 14, 2004Sun is making all sorts of changes as it works to return itself to profitability after quite a few lackluster quarters (<>). One interesting change is that it’s trying to open itself up and make itself more “community friendly.” That’s...
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Sun, Fujitsu say “I do”
June 07, 2004In a move that analysts say comes as little surprise and should be good news for Sun customers, Sun and Fujitsu last week announced an expansion of their 20-year partnership. They’re really taking the plunge this time. Fujitsu is the...
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First Itanium blade
June 07, 2004Analysts say others have promised it, but NEC will be the first to come to market with an Itanium-powered blade server. The server maker is expected to announce this week an Itanium 2-based blade for high performance technical computing, pharmaceutical...
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Big Chill
June 07, 2004With servers getting smaller and chip makers packing more and more processing power on smaller chips, it’s no wonder heat and power issues are becoming increasingly important in the data center. HP, Intel and a bunch of startups are all...
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Blade and switch
May 17, 2004Systems vendors are serious about making blade servers capable of handling pretty much any task in the data center. They’re pumping up the power in the systems and, increasingly, they’re focusing on making sure the thin slices of computing power...
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Open source safety net
May 17, 2004Most enterprises these days are looking at open source software as a way to reduce costs. But with issues such as The SCO Group’s claims that its intellectual property has been illegally added to Linux, there is heightened concern about...
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Dell income up
May 17, 2004It’s nice to see things picking up in the tech industry and Dell’s most recent quarter is helping spur the positive outlook. Last week, Dell reported that revenue for the first quarter of its 2005 fiscal year was $11.5 billion,...
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Double the fun
May 10, 2004HP last week announced that it would soon start shipping a daughter card for its Itanium servers that will let users double the processing power in existing boxes....
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Pushing 10G Ethernet
May 10, 200410G Ethernet continues to move into more of a reality phase with prices coming down as the technology advances....
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Fast lane
May 10, 2004I recently spoke with Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing in the enterprise platform group at Intel, about PCI-Express, a new serial I/O technology designed to remove the limitations of parallel bus connections....
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Virtualize this
May 03, 2004When systems vendors talk about utility computing, what they're really talking about is virtualizing everything in the data center - servers, storage, network - to create a single pool of resources that can be drawn on according to specific business...
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Tightening data center ties
May 03, 2004IBM and Cisco made an interesting announcement last week that is aimed at continuing to streamline management in corporate data centers....
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Gateway to the enterprise
May 03, 2004Gateway continues to struggle and last week announced that it would cut another 1,500 jobs by the end of the year....
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Taking the 64-bit path
April 26, 2004Server partitioning specialist VMware, which was acquired by EMC earlier this year, was prepping its software for 64-bit Itanium platforms. But it's now focusing on supporting 64-bit extension technology on x86 machines....
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The Web services way
April 26, 2004The hype around Web services has quieted into a more realistic view of how next generation data center architectures will support business processes on the fly. Vendors continue to roll out products and services aimed at helping corporations make business...
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Linux lowdown
April 26, 2004If you’re considering Linux, but haven’t yet really gotten started on figuring out just how the open source operating system could fit into your data center, a free one-day workshop being sponsored by Novell and IBM may help clear things...
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Sun shakes things up
April 19, 2004The shakeup continues at Sun Microsystems with the company announcing more executive departures and the reorganization of its volume systems division....
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Happy Birthday, Opteron
April 19, 2004Hard to believe it’s been a year since AMD officially unveiled its long awaited Opteron chip. But get ready for the celebration on Thursday....
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Evolving Itanium
April 19, 2004Intel didn’t immediately see the uptake it expected with its 64-bit Itanium processor, but the chip is gaining ground....
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Honey, I shrunk the mainframe
April 12, 2004Last year, IBM unveiled its mainframe charter. At that time, Big Blue made it clear that reports of the mainframe’s death had been greatly exaggerated. It revamped pricing and talked up the flexibility of the hulking machines to fit into...
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Curiouser and curiouser
April 12, 2004No one could have blamed you if you had thought the news of Microsoft and Sun holding hands and promising to play nice with each other had been an April Fool’s joke. But the agreement reached in the opening days...
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Apple takes another bite
April 12, 2004Our testers took a look at Apple’s latest server operating system release, OS/X 10.3 [code named Panther], and decided that Apple is continuing to get serious about being a player in the server OS market. The testers found that while...
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Power to the people
April 05, 2004In an effort to push its Power microprocessor into, well, everything, IBM is taking a page from the Linux and Java playbooks. Last week, IBM announced it is was opening up its RISC chips to third parties, hoping to create...
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Pay-per-use mainframe
April 05, 2004Unisys is joining IBM in offering customers mainframe capabilities on a pay-per-use basis. Last week, Unisys introduced a new line of its ClearPath mainframe servers, the ClearPath Plus Libra 500. The line includes the Libra 520, which is based on...
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Tying things together
April 05, 2004Now that business customers are getting more serious about linking multiple low cost boxes into clusters and grids, it might be a good time to think about heading to -- or keeping track of -- some of the many conferences...
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Chip power
April 05, 2004IBM staged a media event last week to unveil a new strategy for development of its Power processor line. Among the highlights are plans for broader licensing of the technology to third-party vendors. Big Blue also demonstrated its forthcoming Power...
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Apple ships Xserve G5
March 29, 2004Apple announced plans for its most powerful server to date - the Xserve G5 - at MacWorld Expo in January. It promised to begin shipping the 1U box in February. Well, February came and went without the Xserve G5. But...
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Making the utility computing grade
March 29, 2004Summit Strategies has really been focusing in on this vision of utility computing, where resources are pooled and dynamically allocated based on application demand. Its term for utility computing is dynamic computing. Last week, the analyst firm released its dynamic...
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Boosting Ethernet
March 29, 2004With companies increasingly looking to deploy blade servers, grids and server clusters to run transaction-intensive applications such as databases, the technology used to connect these compute nodes becomes increasingly important. That’s why technologies like the high-speed I/O switching fabric InfiniBand...
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The x86 64-bit bet
March 22, 2004Now that Intel is joining AMD with plans to roll out its own 64-bit extension technology for its Xeon chips, it’s a good time to consider what this means for the server market. Gordon Haff, an analyst at Illuminata, published...
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Safety net for Linux
March 22, 2004Companies still worried by the SCO brouhaha surrounding Linux and concerned by the possibility of litigation, but reluctant to pay for SCO licensing packages, have a new option. A company called Open Source Risk Management LLC plans to begin offering...
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Blade servers calling
March 22, 2004IBM is expanding its blade server offerings with a new system designed for telecommunications companies and network equipment providers, those firms that must meet rigorous uptime requirements and in the past have had to use expensive, proprietary systems for the...
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Powers that be
March 15, 2004It’s no secret that power consumption and heat output have been a thorn in the side of blade server vendors as they peddle these compact slices of computing power. Systems vendors continue to make efforts to architect blades to dissipate...
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IBM expands Opteron options
March 15, 2004IBM this week is expanding its Opteron portfolio with a new workstation aimed at companies running data intensive applications in areas such as oil and gas exploration, electronic design automation, computer-aided engineering, digital content creation and financial analysis. The IntelliStation...
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Xeon keeps rolling along
March 08, 2004Although most of the buzz lately has been around Intel’s plans to join the AMD game and roll out Xeon chips with 64-bit extensions, it’s following through on promises to continue updating the existing Xeon architecture. Last week, the chip...
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HP targets blade, SMB markets
March 08, 2004HP this week will announce two new servers, one a two-processor blade that provides even greater density that its existing offerings and the other a low end server designed for small and midsize businesses that want a tower server but...
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Changing of the guard
March 08, 2004Guess 20 years was long enough for Michael Dell. Last week, Dell announced that the man who founded the company as a college student in 1984 and has been its CEO ever since is stepping aside and handing the reins...
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Opteron at it again
March 01, 2004To say AMD found something special in Opteron would be an understatement. The tide is certainly swelling around the chip that runs both 32- and 64-bit applications. Last week, HP jumped on the bandwagon and announced that it, too, would...
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On the upswing
March 01, 2004Well, we may finally really be coming out of the long downturn. Server numbers show that shipments are up and are staying up. IDC reports that revenue grew across all server categories in the fourth quarter of last year -...
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Talking blades
March 01, 2004Thinking about bringing blade servers into your data center or expanding the use of the compact slices of computing power? If so, the Server Blade Summit might be of interest. The summit, which drew about 700 attendees and more than...
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Intel x86 64-bit extension
February 23, 2004Last week at the Intel Developer's Forum, Intel announced its x86 64-bit extension technology, which lets users run 32- or 64-bit applications and operating systems on Intel Xeon or Pentium 4-based servers. Dell, HP and IBM all said they would...
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IPMI update
February 23, 2004Dell, HP, Intel and NEC grouped together to introduce the next version of the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification, which improves server management. IPMI 2.0 enhances the security, remote management capabilities and configuration options. The specification dictates how remote...
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New servers from Dell
February 23, 2004Dell is launching two servers this week for small and mid-sized businesses and remote offices and workgroups that are really aggressively priced. The PowerEdge 700 tower and PowerEdge 750 rack-mounted servers will be the new low-end of its server line....
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Sun on the rise?
February 16, 2004Sun made a slew of announcements last week as it opened 2004 with the hope of converting Sun naysayers into believers. For the past year or so, Sun has been the whipping boy for the server market with analysts and...
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All things Intel
February 16, 2004Intel is holding its annual Intel Developer Forum this week [Feb. 17-19] in San Francisco. A spokesman says the company has 16 announcements planned, more than in past years. One thing to keep an eye out for is Intel’s entry...
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AFCOM
February 16, 2004If you’re not familiar with AFCOM, you may want to check it out. It is an organization dedicated to helping IT managers better manage their data centers. You can find out about the organization and the resources it offers here....
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Getting griddy
February 09, 2004Grid computing is starting to get a foothold in corporate data centers. Systems vendors like HP, Sun and IBM are rolling out software and services to make the move to a grid architecture easier. But there is a lot of...
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InfiniBandwagon
February 09, 2004After a quiet period, InfiniBand is coming under the spotlight again. While the glare isn’t as strong as it was when the high-speed I/O switching fabric was initially introduced a couple of years ago, there is less hype this time...
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Networking
February 09, 2004Here’s a group that you may want to keep an eye on. It’s called the Society for Information Managers and it bills itself as the premiere meeting place for IT leaders. It boasts more than 3,000 members, which include IT...
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Intel won't let Opteron alone
February 01, 2004AMD is winning a lot of support for its Opteron processor, which uses the x86 instruction set but has 64-bit extensions. Business users seem to like this architecture, saying that it gives them an easier migration path to 64-bit computing...
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Sun's multi-purpose plans
February 01, 2004Last month, Sun announced plans to acquire multifunction switch maker Nauticus Networks. Sun says that it plans to integrate Nauticus’ intelligent switching technology into its volume systems products to enable users to deploy compute capabilities and network services - such...
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Expect a run on server announcements in the coming month
February 01, 2004HP is planning some server and storage news Feb. 9 and Sun is gearing up for its quarterly product roll out. Sun is expected to unveil its first Opteron boxes at the event Feb. 10-11....
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The InfiniBand factor
January 19, 2004InfiniBand, the high-speed I/O switching fabric, came on the scene in 2000 and was expected to be the server interconnect. Backers said the new open standard would fix the processing bottlenecks that data centers were facing. IBM, Compaq, HP, Dell,...
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It’s not just hardware anymore
January 12, 2004Look for consolidation to be a big issue this year as the industry continues to move toward this grand vision of utility computing. Nemertes Research president Johna Till Johnson, a network world columnist and the keynoter of our New Data...
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Opteron on a roll
December 22, 2003It’s true that Intel’s Itanium chip did come into its own this year. The roll out of Itanium 2 came with much vendor support and a chorus of analysts saying that this time around the chip maker may have gotten...
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Making grid a reality
December 15, 2003With the new year fast approaching, IT managers are no doubt sitting down to take stock of what they’ve got going on in their data centers and where they can go from here. The big battle cry these days is...
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Blade market gaining steam
December 08, 2003Blades, those compact slices of computing power designed to give data centers the oomph they need without taking up a lot of space, have been slow to take off. Buyers didn't clamor for the products as expected when vendors began...
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HP takes wraps off Nimbus: easier days ahead in the data center?
November 17, 2003The buzz around so-called utility computing rose to a fever pitch over the last few days. HP - yet again - tried to explain what exactly it means by the Adapative Enterprise (see story) and IBM marched out customers who...
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Keeping server options open
November 10, 2003The server industry continues to move full throttle toward standardization. Across the board, systems vendors are paying closer attention to what they’ve got in their stable of products that has the Intel brand on it. And they’re no longer shying...
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HP retires midrange e3000
November 03, 2003Say goodbye to the proprietary midrange - at least when it comes to HP. Hewlett Packard on Halloween stopped selling the e3000, part of its strategy to move all of its servers onto Intel chips....
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Under the Sun
October 27, 2003Things have been tough for Sun Microsystems of late. Earlier this month, Sun reported earnings for its first quarter of fiscal 2004 and the news wasn't too rosy. Sun executives say they saw a bump in the services and storage...
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HP stands up for Linux
September 29, 2003Unwilling to let SCO inspire fear, uncertainty and doubt that could stem the growth of its Linux business, HP has come out and told users that they can go ahead with their Linux plans with nary a care. That's as...
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Server tango
September 22, 2003While it's no revelation that there is heated competition in the server market -- look at Sun dropping its prices on its four-way system (it rolled out a v440 that starts at just under $10,000 with two UltraSPARC IIIi processors...
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One blade at a time
September 15, 2003The blade server market has failed to take off as originally expected, but that doesn't mean blades aren't being deployed in data centers. According to IDC, blade server revenue grew to $119 million in the second quarter of this year,...
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Dell rolls out Itanium
September 08, 2003If you're ever wondering whether a server technology has hit the mainstream, the easiest way to find out is to look at Dell. If Dell's offering the technology, you can pretty well bet it's become widely embraced. With that thought...
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IBM leads server market in second quarter
September 01, 2003IDC came out with its server market numbers last week. The good news is that server revenues grew in the second quarter of this year, compared to the same quarter a year ago. It's the first time year-over-year revenue numbers...
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The price is right
August 25, 2003The battle for business at the low end of the server market is creating some good news for customers - especially in these tough economic times. Vendors across the board have been cutting prices to such an extent that even...
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The Rising Sun?
August 18, 2003Sun made its name by building big, powerful boxes based on its proprietary Sparc processor. But as of late, times have been a bit tough for the company that was a technology leader in the boomtime '90s. The trouble is...
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Chalk one up for AMD
August 11, 2003AMD got a nice shot in the arm last month when IBM followed through on its promise to deliver an Opteron-based server. Big Blue was the only major systems vendor to roundly endorse the chip when it was launched last...
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Sun courts HP Alpha customers
July 21, 2003Taking a look at the server market today is like taking a look at a gangly teen-ager. Things are certainly in a state of flux and the market is trying to figure out just exactly where it's going. What will...
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