Servers

Intel this week began selling quad-core Xeon and Core2 Extreme chips, making good on its promise to deliver four-core computer processors ahead of rival chip maker AMD. Market uptake of the new chips may be limited to customers who need improved performance over that of dual-core processing. Nonethe...

Strong demand for the Xbox gaming console and server software helped push Microsoft to a strong first quarter, with the company exceeding its own revenue projections and surpassing Wall Street forecasts for profit. The Redmond, Wash., software giant said revenue rose 11 percent over the same period ...

If you are running serious business applications on the Web, downtime or Web site slowness equals lost dollars. This is true either directly, by missed sales if you are running an e-commerce store, or indirectly, through lost customer trust if you are providing a Web-based solution to clients. When...

Sun Microsystems showed off new server technology at a press event in New York this week where the firm took the opportunity to tout growth in its server business over consecutive quarters. As a backdrop to talk about its path to a positive future, Sun announced new Sparc-based Sun Fire workgroup s...

Amid its pretexting controversy and board shakeup this week, HP on Thursday said it has revamped its entire line of HP Integrity servers with more powerful models. The new machines boast more than twice the performance of the previous generation of HP Integrity servers, according to the company. Tha...

Intel unveiled its newest chips this week in announcing its new "Tulsa" server processors, the latest dual-core, 64-bit Xeon chips from the company. The firm also announced that its "Merom" mobile processors are now shipping to notebook manufacturers including Dell for its recently acquired Alienwar...

IBM this week revealed five new, higher-end, Opteron-based server systems for increased energy efficiency. The releases further highlight the company's commitment to Advanced Micro Devices' server processor products. IBM said its AMD-based server expansion, to include x86 blade servers with new IBM ...

The latest customer survey comparing Linux and Windows servers crowns the open source operating system the winner, but tips some ease-of-administration advantages to Microsoft. Results of the Research and Markets survey, which did not specify any particular Linux distribution or Windows server versi...

After a five-month beta program that saw more than 700,000 downloads, VMware said it would offer VMware Server, its virtualization software, for free. Virtualization is a technique for deploying technologies that allows multiple virtual operating systems to run on a single physical machine while mai...

In an attempt to push ahead in the competitive server market, Sun Microsystems on Tuesday unveiled three high-end products for use in data centers as part of its x86 server platform. Included in the announcement are a 16-way x64 server, a hybrid data server and a blade platform. The three new x64 se...