Amy Newman

Nearly one year after announcing the first generation of the BL ProLiant blade server family, and sticking closely to its product road map, Hewlett-Packard Monday unveiled the third generation of its blade server line. With the addition of the HP ProLiant BL40p server, HP’s blade server portfolio has been fleshed out to span one-, two-, […]

In a sweeping move, Macromedia Tuesday announced additions to its ColdFusion MX for J2EE Application Servers product family and added Mac OS X and AIX support. In addition to delivering long-promised support for BEA WebLogic, Macromedia released versions of ColdFusion MX that support the latest releases of WebSphere and Sun ONE Application Server. The company […]

Intel Monday began shipping the second-generation of its Xeon Processor MP platform, code-named ‘Gallatin.’ The Xeon MP is Intel’s 32-bit processor for the 4-way and up processor market. The previous version, known as Foster, was released in March. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel claims a 19 percent to 38 percent (depending on the application being run) […]

Gartner Dataquest’s worldwide server market stats for the third quarter of 2002 show a server market possibly on the slow road recovery. According to the IT research and advisory firm, preliminary statistics reveal a worldwide server market that grew 3.1 percent in the third quarter of this year. Worldwide server shipments totaled 1.1 million, up […]

With IT spending still sluggish, IDC’s latest batch of stats reveals a server market that may soon see the light at the end of the tunnel, thanks to increased spending in the entry server space. According to IDC’s latest Quarterly Server Forecast, spending for the Standard Intel Architecture Server server market will grow to $5.0 […]

IBM Tuesday unveiled the latest incarnation of AIX 5L v5.2. This release of the operating system for the pSeries eServer line features two major additions: dynamic logical partitioning and Capacity Upgrade on Demand. Static logical partitioning has been available on the pSeries for some time now, Mike Harrell, IBM eServer Unix manager told ServerWatch. Dynamic […]

Sun Microsystems Tuesday announced it has souped up its low-end Sun Fire V100 server with the addition of 550 MHz and 650 MHz UltraSPARC IIi processors. It has also sped up the Sun Fire 280R by adding a 1.015 GHz UltraSPARC III processor. According to Sun, with the UltraSPARC IIi processor the Sun Fire V100 […]

IBM Monday unveiled the the latest version of its flagship operating system for the eServer mainframe. According to Big Blue, z/OS 1.4 will offer advanced workload management capabilities and new migration tools for current OS/390 customers. The release also presents a variety of changes with regard to IBM’s z/OS strategy, Mary Moore, zSeries z/Os marketing […]

Hewlett-Packard Monday expanded its blade server offerings with the unveiling of its ProLiant BL p-Class system, its first dual-processor blade server to hit the market. Scheduled to begin shipping next month, the BL20p is the first dual-processor blade server that HP will release. Sally Stevens, Director of Marketing, Density Optimized Servers, described the two-processor blade […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems Monday presented a shift in strategy with the unveiling of its new 32-bit architecture, Intel- or AMD-based Linux-compliant server at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco. Away from the crowds at the Moscone Center, Sun Chairman, CEO, and President Scott McNeally announced Sun’s renewed interest in 32-bit architecture, an […]

A CERT advisory issued Monday evening warns of several vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL Server. Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine 2000 are affected. CERT Advisory CA-2002-22 warns of several serious vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL Server that enable remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, alter database content, compromise […]

Macromedia Tuesday presented the newest member of the Macromedia MX product family: Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX. In a nutshell, Flash Communication Server is a “development environment for creating all types of communications,” Beth Davis, vice president, Flash product management told ServerWatch. The communication server provides the link between the application server on which an […]