After a year of spiraling toward the ground, server sales may be pulling out of the dive, with x86 servers leading the pack. Revenue continued to fall, yet it's still progress.

Tukwila is formally dubbed Itanium 9300, and HP, Intel's partner in building the RISC processor, is first out of the gate with a series of systems. More will follow.

Who in the world would want to take on IBM, HP and Dell all at once? Cisco, the networking company, with its entry into the blades server business. So how is the company doing as we approach the end of year one?

The benchmarking standards group has added per-watt rating to how it measures server transactions.

With its acquisition of Sun having closed, Oracle is deciding what stays and what goes.

With its troubles and foundries behind it, AMD seeks growth in areas Intel has been mining for years.

New appliance gives managed providers serving the SMB market an enterprise-scale load balancer.

Many lessons in managing computer centers the size of a football field were learned this year. How much of that will stick in 2010?

Microsoft, Novell, and Red Hat join up with the hardware giant to ease customers' transition off Solaris.

No-name PC vendors fill the landscape from coast to coast serving many verticals, but Dell is ready to challenge them.