Clint Boulton

Faced with stiff competition from server vendor giants like IBM and HP, RLX Technologies late last week said it is leaving the hardware business. The company, which was the first to market in the server blades space, will stop selling blade servers and focus instead on selling software to manage them. With IBM and HP […]

IBM Tuesday unveiled a new eServer Power5 system for less than $5,000, an offering for customers that use Unix systems to power their small-and midsize businesses. Big Blue has just released a smallish, 2U server geared to provide advanced utilities at an attractive price point. Like every pSeries server Big Blue has released since summer […]

Intel will add hardware support for VMware virtualization software in its forthcoming Vanderpool chip line. The companies will tie the knot, with Intel promising to support VMware virtualization software in its Vanderpool chips. Vanderpool consists of hardware enhancements to server and desktop processors that make virtualization work much better for customers. Virtualization helps enterprises consolidate […]

IBM has agreed to offer evaluation copies of VMware’s applications with its BladeCenter system in an attempt to bring the promise of virtualization software on blade servers to life. VMware aims to hone its virtualization software on IBM’s modular blade server systems to gain market presence. Financial terms of the agreement, expected to be announced […]

Eben Moglen is convinced the software industry is returning to being about a free exchange of ideas and code. Free Software Foundation lawyer Eben Moglen wants to wipe out what he calls the ‘scourge’ of proprietary software. The lawyer for the Free Software Foundation said during a keynote at the LinuxWorld Summit in New York […]

Inching along in its “pay as you grow” computing strategy, IBM has built a new server that uses four Intel processors and scales up to 32 processors in an eight-chassis configuration. Big Blue issues the second machine in its Intel-based X3 architecture line. The box is built to scale for environments that require “always-on” computing […]

HP  has upgraded its storage file system software to transfer and store more data at a faster rate on Linux clusters. The systems vendor has upped the ante with its storage file system software, boosting bandwidth and performance. The product, HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share (HP SFS), eases bandwidth burdens by distributing files simultaneously across […]

HP trotted out new 2-processor servers and blades based on dual-core AMD Opteron chips this week. HP doesn’t mean to boast, but it shipped its 10 millionth ProLiant server amid a new Opteron server launch. The release comes three months after the company issued 4-processor ProLiant machines to coincide with AMD’s dual-core Opteron 800 Series […]

Dell said its PowerEdge 1855 blade server may now connect to a McData switch, part of a bid to lure new customers with the promise of more flexibility. The computer maker looks to spruce up its blade server connectivity by porting to a McData switch for the first time. Customer can now connect and run […]

Microsoft  is reaching out to midsize businesses with a new Windows Server System promotion for small IT staffs that require a self-contained software system. The software giant is appealing to midsize businesses with its latest software bundle. The new bundle includes the Windows Server 2003 operating system, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, and Microsoft Operations Manager […]

IBM is getting into the dual-core processing game, with the announcement of its new PowerPC 970MP chip, the dual-core version of the PowerPC 970FX. The new PowerPC 970MP chip offers twice the power of the PowerPC 970FX yet manages to conserve energy. Code-named Antares, the 970MP yields more than double the performance of its predecessor […]

Acknowledging that a serious mainframe requires serious software to manage its many activities, IBM is preparing new Tivoli software for its next major mainframe, the z9. The software suite aims to help the z9 mainframe process transactions and give users a reprieve from outages. The suite includes about a dozen workload management, monitoring and system […]