Servers

Microsoft this week unveiled SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 for developers and enhanced BizTalk Server 2006, claiming the new software delivered "unprecedented integration" between server infrastructure and developer tools. The company said SQL Server 2005 and its database technology would allo...

Hewlett-Packard announced today that it has added an HP-UX blade server to its Itanium arsenal, a move that gives it a slight edge over IBM, one analyst said. "When you compare where they were Monday vs. where they are today, this does give HP salespeople something in their kit bag which not only di...

Continuing a pattern of kinder, gentler software licensing terms and relationships, Microsoft announced this week its simplified, virtualization-ready Windows Server licensing that allows as many as four virtual instances of the software on one physical server for the same price. The software giant ...

Continuing a pattern of kinder, gentler software licensing terms and relationships, Microsoft announced this week its simplified, virtualization-ready Windows Server licensing that allows as many as four virtual instances of the software on one physical server for the same price. The software giant ...

Hewlett-Packard today swooped in to pick up what's left of blade pioneer RLX Technologies, which had been reduced to a licenser of its blade management software, the RLX Control Tower for Linux. Terms of the deal were not announced. RLX had been first in the market with blades, or thin servers meant...

Dell yesterday said it has added multi-core technology from Intel to its portfolio of dual-socket servers and workstations. Meanwhile, AMD also said yesterday that IBM, HP, and Sun are using its new dual-core Opteron. The announcements undoubtedly heighten the competition between AMD and rival Intel...

Dell today said it has added multi-core technology from Intel to its portfolio of dual-socket servers and workstations. Meanwhile, AMD also said today that IBM, HP, and Sun are using its new dual-core Opteron. The announcements undoubtedly heighten the competition between AMD and rival Intel. Analys...

Just a week after announcing new x64 servers code-named Galaxy, Sun Microsystems yesterday released Sun Fire servers powered by new UltraSparc IV+ processors. The new Sun Fire V490, V890, E2900, E4900 and E6900 servers are powered run on Solaris 10, or earlier versions of the company's flagship oper...

Sun yesterday announced a new family of enterprise-class x64 multi-core available servers powered by AMD Opteron processors and running the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). Sun said the new servers are about one-third the power, one-and-a-half times the performance, and cost half as much as compara...

Sun today announced a new family of enterprise-class x64 multi-core available servers powered by AMD Opteron processors and running the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). Sun said the new servers are about one-third the power, one-and-a-half times the performance, and cost half as much as comparably ...