Drew Robb

IBM's latest mainframe, the z10 Enterprise Class (EC) doesn't compare well to the BMW Z10 when it comes to acceleration, cornering or cup holders. But the

Is the industry's attitude toward 8-socket servers changing? HP is banking on it with an Opteron offering aimed at the midmarket.The 8-socket server space

HP certainly dominates the worldwide blade server market. Out of last year's almost $4 billion in overall blade server sales, HP accounted for about $2

Remember the good old green-screen days? A few heavy-duty servers operated scores of dumb terminals. You wrote documents, fiddled with spreadsheets,

T is for tower and R is for rack, in these parallel, feature-laden low-cost servers from Dell.Dell recently introduced several servers to reinforce its

Stock research firm StockCharts.com recently replaced its IBM blades and implemented the Sun Blade Modular System. As a result, it was able to provide

Sun characterizes the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 as the fastest server designed for virtualization. It provides 64 virtual systems on one box, or about

In the new Dell naming convention system, T is for tower and R is for rack. So you would expect B would mean blade. Not so. In its infinite wisdom, Dell

Egenera is something of an enigma in this era of hardware vendor consolidation: an independent player in a tough market. To make matters worse, the

Ed. Note: This week, we introduce our newest column, Hard-Core Hardware, which replaces Server Snapshots. Our newest column kicks off with a discussion of

Dell's recent purchase of EqualLogic is already paying off. The company can now claim a position of dominance in the iSCSI market with 28.1 percent,

At a recent IT event, a member of the press prefaced her question to the CEO of EMC saying, "First, I'd like to thank you for making no mention of green