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Marvell Offers Mini Plug Computer for Consumer, Network, Appliance Designs February 25, 2009 
Marvell has created a new Plug Computing initiative to help developers build high-performance, always-on, always-connected and environmentally friendly little computer devices that plug into electrical wall sockets and act like embedded or appliance computers in the home.
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IBM Spreads Cloud Cover Across the Globe February 11, 2009 
IBM has rolled out new products and services -- along with a joint network offering with partner Juniper Networks -- that solidifies its foothold in the enterprise cloud computing space. The IBM-Juniper offering is an infrastructure play targeting IBM's private cloud clients.
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AMD's Big Hopes Ride on Small Shanghai Chips November 13, 2008 
AMD on Thursday began shipping its latest quad-core Opteron processor, codenamed "Shanghai." Shipping earlier than previously planned, the chips arrive on the market shortly before the expected arrival of new Nehalem processors, competing hardware made by rival Intel.
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A Blade Server Guy in an iPod World: What Gives? November 04, 2008 
A former IBM executive is going against the company's wishes and joining Apple. Mark Papermaster, previously vice president of IBM's blade server unit, will become head of the iPod and iPhone development team, Apple has confirmed. IBM has already filed a lawsuit to try to stop his hire.
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Rackspace Ratchets Up Cloud Computing Competition October 23, 2008 
Rackspace Hosting has significantly expanded its cloud computing offering with the acquisition of two companies and the inking of two new partnership deals. These moves have fundamentally reshaped Rackspace's cloud computing capabilities, prompting the company to rebrand its existing hosting and storage services.
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Oracle Hangs Shingle on Hardware Store September 25, 2008 
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison startled attendees at the company's Openworld conference -- as well as the rest of the industry -- with his announcement that Oracle and HP are joining forces to build computer hardware. It is Oracle's first direct foray into hardware manufacturing. HP will actually make the line of data warehouse application computers; Oracle will market them under its own brand.
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Microsoft Offers Wall Street Super Powers September 23, 2008 
Microsoft on Monday announced its latest software release, Windows HPC Server, at the 2008 High Performance on Wall Street Conference in New York. The application, aimed at industries like financial services, marks Microsoft's latest entry into the high-performance computing market. The software is designed to give firms an easy-to-deploy, cost-effective and scalable HPC solution.
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New Six-Core Intel Xeon Chips Sign Up for VM Duty September 16, 2008 
Intel launched its latest series of chips in the Xeon branded line of server processors Monday. The Xeon Processor 7400 series includes seven 45 nanometer chips sporting up to six processing cores per chip and 16 MB of shared cache memory. The new six-core Xeons, aimed at mid-sized to large businesses, are optimized to run applications built for virtualized environments.
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HP Targets SMBs With Infrastructure in a Box September 16, 2008 
HP on Tuesday launched HP Adaptive Infrastructure in a Box for Midsize Businesses, a suite of products and services designed to enable businesses with anywhere from 100 to 999 employees to more efficiently and cost-effectively manage their evolving network and IT needs.
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HP Aims to Take the Sting Out of Virtualized Storage September 04, 2008 
HP announced a slew of new products on Wednesday designed to make the deployment of a virtualized solution a greater value for businesses. HP's virtualization push focuses on getting rid of the impediments that reduce a virtual deployment's positive effect on a business.
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IBM Hones New Blade Server to Repel DoS Attacks September 03, 2008 
IBM is increasing its arsenal against hackers with a new beefed-up blade server. The IBM BladeCenter PN41, announced this week, combines Deep Packet Inspection technology from CloudShield with IBM's other protection platforms to create a powerhouse against attacks. The system is designed specifically to better protect against denial-of-service attacks, one of the most difficult types to detect and prevent.
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IBM, HP, Dell See Boost in Server Sales While Sun Lags August 22, 2008 
Worldwide shipments of servers grew 12.2 percent while revenue grew 5.7 percent in the second quarter, according to new data released by Gartner. Server vendors including Dell, IBM, Sun Microsystems and HP shipped 2.3 million units during the quarter, generating sales of $13.8 billion. IBM held onto its position as the industry leader with a 31.2 percent share of the market.
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Microsoft Squeaks Out SQL Server 2008 Not a Moment Too Soon August 07, 2008 
Following a nearly six-month delay from its original target release date, Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of its SQL Server 2008 Wednesday. The software maker had initially planned to launch the database application in February, but in January said it would have to move the date back to the third quarter.
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Samsung, Sun Give NAND Devices 5 Lives July 18, 2008 
Samsung and Sun Microsystems have partnered to develop a single-level-cell NAND flash memory device for use in solid state drives with significantly high endurance levels, the two companies said Wednesday. The new device will provide much higher endurance levels than other flash memory devices currently available, according to the companies.
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A No-Brainer for SMBs July 11, 2008 
Small and medium-sized businesses are demanding the same level of quality and functionality for their IT Web infrastructure as larger enterprise IT organizations. Many SMB organizations are implementing their own application delivery optimization solutions; however, others prefer to outsource their application delivery optimization infrastructure to managed hosting providers.
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IBM's Roadrunner Supercomputer Zooms Into Petaflop Territory June 09, 2008 
IBM has designed a new $100 million supercomputer, called "Roadrunnner," that's powerful enough to operate at 1 petaflop -- a cool 1 thousand trillion calculations per second. That's twice as fast as the next closest supercomputer -- the IBM Blue Gene system -- and nearly three times as fast as other top supercomputers in the world.
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