Getting to the core of Woodcrest
What are you personally most proud of with the launch of Woodcrest?
Stories by Shelley Solheim
IBM still tops supercomputer list
The Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released this week, with IBM's BlueGene continuing to reign and AMD's Opteron processor powering more systems on the list than last year.
HP targets mid-market
Hewlett-Packard has released a new version of its NonStop fault-tolerant servers for mid-size businesses.
Sun board approves growth plan, including layoffs
Sun Microsystems's board of directors has signed off on a company plan to return to profitability that will include between 4000 - 5000 layoffs in the next six months.
Ubuntu Linux to support Sun Niagara servers
Sun Microsystems Inc. is getting support for its Sparc-based servers from Canonical Ltd., the Linux distributor of Ubuntu, the companies said Tuesday.
Sun woos developers to the grid at a dollar an hour
Sun Microsystems has rolled out several incentives to draw developers into creating applications for the Sun Grid, the company announced at the recent JavaOne Developer Conference, held in San Francisco.
CA: making encryption easier
CA has launched new software that aims to ease tape encryption and key management for mainframe users.
Sun shakes up executives, server groups
In one of the first executive shakeups at Sun Microsystems since Jonathan Schwartz stepped in as CEO last month, the company on has shuffled its server and storage heads and consolidated its server businesses.
Quantum to buy rival
Quantum has announced plans to purchase fellow tape vendor Advanced Digital Information for approximately US$770 million (NZ$1.25 billion).
Big Blue's Viper to get more bite
IBM is building new storage-compression technology into its forthcoming "Viper" DB2 database server that it says can cut storage needs by more than half.
More acquisitions coming, says EMC chief
EMC is still in the process of fitting together all the pieces of its ILM (information lifecycle management) jigsaw puzzle, but a partial picture of its roadmap emerged at its EMC World conference in Boston last month.
Virtualisation vendors eye the desktop
VMware, which trailblazed the way for broader adoption of server virtualisation, is now hoping to drive virtualisation of the desktop with the help of other companies.
HP releases blade server tools
Hewlett-Packard has introduced software aimed at simplifying the management of its BladeSystem blade servers running Linux.
HP launches new archiving, data protection tools
HP has launched new tools to help businesses archive, access and protect data.
XOsoft adds support for Linux, 64-bit, BlackBerry
XOsoft on Monday will release the next version of its WANSync data synchronization and replication software with added support for Linux, 64-bit environments and the BlackBerry mobile device.