Servers Archives

Dell Steadfast in Midst of x86 Battle

September 26, 2005

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...

Sun Seeks to Light Server Fire

September 21, 2005

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 Powers New Servers With Opteron Chips, Solaris 10

September 13, 2005

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 Shines With New Server Trio

September 12, 2005

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 ...

New Gateway Server Aimed at Small Businesses

September 2, 2005

Once perhaps the most prominent seller of desktop PCs to consumers, Gateway has announced a new small business server aimed at diversifying its product line, increasing its margins, and leaving behind its more recent marketplace struggles. Gateway announced its new E9220T server as a "low-cost, entr...

IBM Creeps Up on Sun in Unix Server Space

August 29, 2005

Have IBM and HP outpaced Sun in the worldwide market for Unix servers? IDC declared it so on Friday, but Gartner's numbers tell a different story. Generally speaking, factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew at 5.6 percent year over year to US$12.2 billion in the second quarter of 2005, m...

AMD Making Headway With Server Market Share

July 28, 2005

When AMD reported second quarter sales of US$1.26 billion and net income of $11 million buoyed by its processors recently, it also passed the 10 percent barrier in x86 market share for the first time in company history. According to a report from analyst firm Mercury Research, AMD's share of the x86...

Fujitsu Unveils High-End Servers with Itanium, Linux

April 6, 2005

Fujitsu showcased its additions to the high-end server world today, the PrimeQuest 480 and PrimeQuest 440, built on Itanium 2 chips. The servers will be released in June with Red Hat Linux, but Fujitsu said it will offer a version running Novell/SuSE Linux as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Da...

Microsoft Delivers Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1

March 31, 2005

Microsoft yesterday released its Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, providing system customers with security enhancements as well as reliability and performance improvements. Analysts said service pack releases are significant events for consumers under typical circumstances, but this Microsoft rel...