Servers

VMware on Monday unveiled the latest version in its ESX Server line at its VMworld 2007 conference, held this week in San Francisco. The next-generation thin hypervisor, VMware ESX Server 3i, has the backing of industry heavyweights such as Dell, HP, IBM and NEC, all of whom have committed to integr...

Microsoft has upped the ante in the server virtualization space, which has thus far been primarily dominated by VMware. The Redmond, Wash., software giant has released its System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 solution, which the company has been working on for the last two years. While SCVMM c...

There is no rest for the wicked, or anyone else this summer, as last week had a number of big events. One of the largest is that Acer moved around Lenovo and Apple -- which is also coming up fast -- to become the No. 3 PC manufacturer by buying Gateway. For those who wanted an iPhone but couldn't af...

Pano Logic announced Tuesday an all-hardware, no-software desktop device designed specifically for server-based desktop virtualization. The device connects keyboard, mouse, display, audio and USB peripherals over an existing IP network to a copy of Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows XP running on a ...

Intel has upgraded its vPro processor technology for desktop PCs with a host of new security features that protect against viruses, hacker attacks and other threats, the company announced Monday. The upgraded vPro, formerly code-named "Weybridge," combines an Intel Core 2 Duo processor with an Intel...

IBM and Sun Microsystems announced Thursday the two long-time rivals have formed a partnership that will bring Sun's Solaris operating system to IBM servers. The "comprehensive relationship" will see both companies embark on a mission to jointly serve enterprise clients seeking to run the OS on IBM'...

Application infrastructure firm Citrix will buy open source virtualization company XenSource for $500 million, a deal announced just hours after another virtualization firm made a dazzling debut on Wall Street. Citrix will pay a combination of cash and stock for Palo Alto, Calif.-based XenSource, a ...

VMware, the server virtualization firm spun off by EMC with the help of some high-profile industry backers, made an impressive debut on Wall Street Tuesday, with the company's shares rising 90 percent in early trading. VMware shares priced at $29 late Monday -- the high end of a $27 to $29 range -- ...

Police departments release annual figures detailing the number of crimes committed in a given year. While these statistics may be useful for high-level planning, they don't put anyone in jail. What is needed is convincing evidence of exactly who did what, where and when. The same can be said for net...

As part of its ongoing Project Big Green initiative, IBM announced Wednesday that it is replacing 3,900 computer servers in its datacenters with 30 System z mainframes running Linux, for an expected energy reduction of 80 percent over the next five years. The move represents one of the most signific...