Ben Freeman

At first glance, Fujitsu's U.S. server offerings appear easily dissected. They fall into two product lines split evenly between the x86 and SPARC realms.

Report after report has found both RISC and Intel servers to be grossly underutilized in many enterprises. In financially flush times, it's often easier

Fortinet and SonicWALL Fortify the Enterprise Gartner's Magic Quadrant matrix provides a graphical representation of a particular marketplace, positioning

At first blush,the landscape of Gateway server country looks much like Dell server country. Like Dell, Gateway offers Intel Celeron-based entry-level

The Gateway server snapshot featured in last week's Hardware Today presented a vendor making waves in the commodity server market. Gateways' servers run

The last time we looked at server room components, we examined NAS and SANs. This week, Hardware Today returns to the storage corner of the data center to

The Apple server snapshot featured in last week's Hardware Today described a vendor working to combine ease of use and robustness with commodity pricing

Previously, when we looked at server room components, we focused on storage. First, we looked at NAS and SANs and then at RAID controllers. This week,

Mainframes may not be the next big thing or front-page news these days, but they aren't out of the running, either. Mainframes may not be the next big

The previous HP server snapshot, published in November 2003, highlighted the vendor's attempts to tame its multiple lines, both the home-grown ones and

Last week's Hardware Today Server Snapshot focused on HP, a vendor attempting to consolidate disparate product lines onto x86 and Itanium architectures

Interconnect technology is at a crossroads. Ethernet is standards-based and omnipresent but lags in performance, while Fibre Channel has better