Amy Newman

IBM Friday sharpened it blade offerings to target small and midsize businesses with the announcement of new hardware and software bundles. Juhi Jotwani, director of IBM eServer Blade Center Alliances, told ServerWatch that 30 percent of IBM blade sales come from the SMB space. She said sometimes SMBs use blades for a specific function; and […]

HP Monday joined rank with IBM and Dell as Intel’s much-publicized Extended Memory 64-bit Technology (EM64T) processor (AKA Nocona) became a reality. HP added five second-generation dual-processor ProLiant servers containing the new Intel Xeon processor to its stable. Intel’s new EM64T chip transparently extends x86 computing from 32-bit to 64-bit, enabling enterprises to mix 32- […]

IDC and Gartner both released second quarter server shipment and revenue stats this week. After 10 consecutive quarters of decline, IDC anticipates 2003 will be the turning point: The first year since 2000 that spending in the U.S. server market has increased. The research firm’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Forecast reports spending for servers is on […]

Hewlett-Packard Thursday revealed plans to bring open grid standards to all of its consumer and commercial product lines, further enabling core enterprise infrastructure technologies for grid computing. The initiative, part of HP’s Adaptive Enterprise strategy, will integrate industry grid standards, including the Globus Toolkit v3.0 and Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), across HP’s entire product […]

Gateway on Thursday added one more server option to the mix. The Gateway 960X, which begins shipping today, is designed for small- and midsize enterprises as well as workgroups within larger organizations. Gateway is touting the server’s redundancy features, which enable it to achieve maximum uptime, as its main advantage. “The Gateway 960X is a […]

Macromedia Tuesday released ColdFusion MX 6.1. This latest version of the product is more “simple, solid, and fast” than previous releases, Dan Murphy, product marketing manager for ColdFusion told ServerWatch. It also consolidates the three editions into two. Previous versions of ColdFusion MX Professional upgrade to ColdFusion MX Standard 6.1; ColdFusion MX Enterprise and the […]

IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker revealed a still sluggish server market in which factory revenue decreased 3.6 percent to $10.5 billion during the first quarter of 2003, compared with the same quarter a year ago. IDC notes that this sequential quarterly decline is less than the 5 percent year-over-year decline experienced in 4Q02, and […]

Hewlett-Packard Tuesday announced a pay-per-use utility pricing model that uses automated metering technology to measure the percent of each CPU actually used on an HP Superdome server. With this pricing model, customers will be charged for actual server usage on a monthly basis. According to HP, this direct link between IT costs and business demand […]

The application server market is an ever-evolving and highly competitive space. Vendors, particularly the high-profile ones, are forever scrambling to gain — and keep — market share. With new releases of WebSphere and Oracle Application Server slated to come out in the next few months, such shifts may soon be under way. Oracle and IBM […]

Gartner Dataquest’s worldwide server market stats for 2002 show a server market that continues to make a slow rebound. According to the research and advisory firm’s initial stats, worldwide server shipments for 2002 totaled 4.6 million units, a 4.2 percent increase from 2001 shipments. “The performance of the worldwide server market continues the growth pattern […]

Fujitsu and Intel late Thursday revealed plans to work together to develop mission-critical enterprise servers for the worldwide computing market. The new Fujitsu systems will contain industry-standard Intel processors and run Linux operating software. This represents a major strategy shift, as up until now, all of Fujitsu’s servers have had SPARC-based processors and the Unix […]

The SCO Group Tuesday at LinuxWorld unveiled SCOoffice Server, a back-office software suite aimed at small to midsize enterprises. SCO Linux 4.0, SCOoffice Mail Server 2.0, and SCOoffice Base Server comprise the offering. The suite is designed to enable enterprises take advantage of Linux to easily set up, manage, and administer networks without requiring deep […]