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- Increasing Energy Efficiency with x86 Servers
- The current economic crisis has most companies scrambling for ways to get the most out of every dollar they spend. However, to date, many of the gains have been illusory due to high server costs, lack of effective virtualization and management, and inefficiencies that make it expensive to power and...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, SAP AG, X86 Server, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2009-06-23
- Increasing Energy Efficiency with x86 servers
- Increasing energy efficiency with x86 servers. Robert Frances Group RFG explains why Intel/IBM is a winning combination.
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Server, X86 Server, IBM Corp.
- White papers 2009-06-22
- Parsing the hardware landscape: x86 servers, PCs and laptops
- Parsing the hardware landscape: x86 servers, PCs and laptopsSome results seem to make no senseIn the bar graph of suppliers the answer to the question "Which vendor is your primary or lead supplier of future purchases" almost EVERY vendor is down compared to the previous 12 months for desktops and...
- Tags: Notebooks, PC, server, x86 server, laptop computer, hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-03-05
- Parsing the hardware landscape: x86 servers, PCs and laptops
- The hardware replacement cycle continues apace despite a global downturn, according to Forrester Research. In our last installment of parsing Forrester's emerging hardware trend reports on the state of enterprise and SMB hardware trends,  we look at hardware developments. The big themes: Dell is seen...
- Tags: PC, Server, Laptop Computer, Small And Medium Business, X86 Server, Forrester Research Inc., Smb/Sme, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Fun with IBM's Z10 numbers
- As far as I'm concerned, when an organization buys an IBM mainframe to run Linux somebody should be fired - but not the DP guy who bought it: his boss: the non technical guy who approved it without carefully reviewing the alternatives. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: IBM Corp., Mainframes, Linux, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel X86, Data-processing, X86 Server, Processors, Semiconductors, Components
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- 660 mln virtualized PCs by 2011
- Gartner believes that virtualization reduced the x86 server market by 4% in 2006. As hypervisor prices drop sharply and management costs decrease because of increased competition, virtualization will have a significantly larger impact. Gartner predicts that more than 4 mln virtual machines will be installed on x86 servers by 2009....
- Tags: PC, X86 Server, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, AM
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- x86 server market grew 7.6% in Q4 2007
- The x86 server market continued to grow in Q4 2007, increasing 7.6% in the quarter to $7.8 bln in worldwide revenues, according to IDC. Unit shipment growth also accelerated, growing a healthy 10.3% YTY to 2.1 mln servers as customers continued to refresh and expand their IT infrastructures. For the...
- Tags: Revenue, Server, X86 Server, Operational Accounting, Finance, NB
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Analyst: Sun prepping to use Intel inside its servers
- Sun Microsystems has had one partner in the low-end server market--Advanced Micro Devices. That appears to be changing, according to a research note from Bank of America Securities analyst Sumit Dhanda. In the report published Friday, Dhanda writes: ...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, AMD, Intel, Sun, Intel Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., server, Sumit Dhanda
- Blog posts 2007-01-21
- Sun begins high-end phase of x86 servers
- Sun begins high-end phase of x86 serversSun's server business is doomed by WoodcrestSun should thank AMD's Opteron processor to revive its server business. But with the forthcoming of Intel's Woodcrest Xeon, it's no surprise Sun'll lose market share to vendors that sell Xeon boxes.A day late and a dollar short...Seems...
- Tags: Servers, Processors, x86 server, Sun Microsystems Inc., server
- Discussion threads 2006-07-11
- Fabric7 banks on high-end x86 servers
- Fabric7 banks on high-end x86 serversThey just might be entering this market at the right time.Linux is getting a lot of the features needed, and Xen is about to be added to the kernel. But, then again, how many appications will run better on this than a bunch of comodity...
- Tags: Servers, server, Dell Computer Corp., x86 server, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-11-01
- Photos: Sun's new star servers
- Sun shows off its new line of x86 servers, a move the company hopes will rebuild its reputation and finances.
- Tags: finance, Sun Microsystems Inc., server, x86 server
- Image galleries 2005-09-12
- Photos: Sun's new star servers
- Sun shows off its new line of x86 servers, a move the company hopes will rebuild its reputation and finances.
- Tags: finance, Sun Microsystems Inc., server, x86 server
- Image galleries 2005-09-11
- Photos: Sun's new star servers
- Sun shows off its new line of x86 servers, a move the company hopes will rebuild its reputation and finances.
- Tags: finance, Sun Microsystems Inc., server, x86 server
- Image galleries 2005-09-11
- Sun's 'Galaxy' servers making September debut
- Sun's 'Galaxy' servers making September debutGalaxy?More like "planetoid"! When I think "BIG" server, I don't picture 1U and 2U sizes . . .Nice to see you're trying Sun!DELL is in troubleSUN's 2P server will have a huge price/performance advantage over DELL's INTEL offerings.Sun battles all tides...... with a fork.From the...
- Tags: Servers, Operating systems, Blade servers, UNIX, Sun Microsystems Inc., server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Galaxy, x86 server, Dell Computer Corp., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-09-02
- Comparing Sun and Dell servers
- One of the most deeply held beliefs underlying a lot of what you read in the popular press involves the idea that Wintel hardware is both cheaper and more varied than Unix hardware. Point out to the people who say this that anything capable of running a licensed Windows variant...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., server
- Blog posts 2005-08-23
- PC shipments up 24.7%, laptops up 74% in Central and Eastern Europe
- Portables again dominated the PC markets in terms of growth in Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East and Africa CEMA in Q3 2004. According to IDC Q3 PC Tracker, while total volume growth was a healthy 24.7% YTY, shipments of portables swelled sharply by nearly 74% YTY. In...
- Tags: YTY, MEA, CEE
- Blog posts 2004-11-22
- Sun, BEA promote Java on x86 servers
- Sun, BEA promote Java on x86 serversI thought Java was WORAGood luck to them, but why do they need a special version to run on Java on Solaris? I thought the story was, it the program runs on Java, it runs on Java, any platform.Having said which, I couLd...
- Tags: Programming languages, Java, BEA Systems Inc., x86 server, Sun Microsystems Inc., server
- Discussion threads 2003-11-21
- Dell Helps Lead Scale-Out Industry-Standard Server Computing
- Meeting business requirements for less. It's the perennial struggle for IT managers, made even more difficult by the economic climate of the past three years. Many have turned to server farms, clusters, or grids of x86 industry-standard servers as cost-effective alternatives to larger, proprietary symmetrical multiprocessing systems. As a worldwide...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Computing, X86 Server, Servers, Hardware
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Additional Resources
- VirtualBox 3.0.12 (Windows)
- VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Features: Modularity: VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design,Virtual machine descriptions in...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Microsoft Windows, Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
- VirtualBox 3.0.12 (Mac)
- innotek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Apple Macintosh, Innotek GmbH, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Virtualization
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
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