IBM has powered up a prototype of "Squadron," its coming high-end Unix server with 64 Power5 processors, an important step in Big Blue's plans to unify its four server lines. "We manufactured our ...

IBM announced two new top-end Unix servers Friday, creating major challenges to Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. The new servers are the biggest iron in IBM's Squadron family of servers, which ...

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Hewlett-Packard has been struggling in the Unix server market, but it plans an offensive with a product featuring twice the chips of its current top-end Superdome. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

While the Unix server business has lost much of its glamour in the face of assaults from Windows, Linux, and the cloud, there is still plenty of life -- and growth -- in the business, although for the ...

They also come at a time when the third most important Unix processor line, Sun Microsystems' SPARC, is in a state of flux thanks to the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. Together, these are starting to ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday launched a new line of Unix servers aimed at cost-conscious buyers, as it tries to inject new life into its flagging high-end hardware business. HP, based in Palo Alto, ...

As Intel’s server chips become more powerful and Microsoft addresses lingering doubts about how far its operating system can scale reliably, enterprise customers face an increasingly tough choice over ...

Shipments of x86 servers grew 9.5 percent during the third quarter as Unix server shipments fell, though some companies reported increased Unix revenue As adoption of x86 servers increased globally, ...

Although most of our infrastructure is now virtualised in VMware (Windows and Linux) and backed up by Veeam, we still have a number of Solaris (SPARC) and AIX (POWER) servers. These are currently ...

Rapid growth in the market for x86 servers over the past year brought good news for both Linux and Windows, as research firm IDC reported last week. What’s not always appreciated, however, is just how ...