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.

Ellison outlines Oracle's open source direction now that the Sun acquisition has closed.

What is Red Hat doing to further expand its JBoss middleware and developer tools?

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

Virtually Speaking: VMware's purchase of Zimbra further solidifies its cloud strategy and puts it in direct competition with Microsoft.

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

While 90 percent of enterprises surveyed by CDW have virtualized portions of their datacenters, 62 percent are still keeping "critical" apps on physical servers.

After some speculation, the deal is now public, continuing VMware's flight to the cloud.

After testing claims that IIS 6 is vulnerable to a zero-day attack, Microsoft declared the wild goose chase off.

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

Open Group execs discuss Unix's direction -- and what Linux's growth means for the platform's future.

A zero-day vulnerability in IIS revealed on Christmas day allows attackers to bypass file extension protections using a semicolon after an executable extension.

Stun gun maker and law enforcement tech firm Taser reveals that UCS has real uses with its new, cloud-based evidence.com portal.

Is Linux on Itanium in trouble? Not necessarily.

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

After five beta releases, VanDyke Software's telnet server, VShell Server 3.6, got the gold stamp of approval.

Recent research reports show the rate of enterprises adopting virtualization is on the decline. Has the silver bullet misfired, or is something else happening here?