Amy Newman

Gartner Dataquest this week released statistics revealing a worldwide server market that grew 1.8 percent in 2001 — the lowest annual growth rate in unit shipments seen since 1996. Worldwide server shipments totaled 4.4 million in 2001; 1.7 million of those units were sold in the United States. Compaq maintained its place in the top […]

Sun Microsystems Monday unveiled a Sun Cobalt Qube server targeted at home networks, small businesses, and remote branch offices. Peder Ulander, senior director at Sun Cobalt, told ServerWatch that the Sun Cobalt Qube 3 server appliance is simple enough to enable the novice user to be up and running within 15 to 20 minutes, yet […]

IBM Monday released Director 3.1 and announced the latest addition to its Project eLiza initiative. IBM also announced that it will take its eServer xSeries servers head-to-head with Dell Computer’s comparable offerings. Project eLiza’s goal is to create intelligent IT systems capable of managing, protecting, and healing themselves automatically. Director 3.1 brings self-healing technology to […]

Gateway Thursday added a new offering to its Gateway 930 Series server line. The Gateway 930X server joins the 930C, the 930L2, and the 930S. Like the other servers in the 930 Series, this new configuration is designed for small businesses and workgroups that have high performance requirements and extensive storage needs. Where the 930X […]

Tricord Systems, Inc. , developer of Illumina(TM) clustering software and the Lunar Flare(TM) NAS appliance, today announced a new application appliance series for independent software developers and systems integrators, Lunar Flare AA 1100 and AA 1200. The company said each Lunar Flare AA 1100 provides 135 GBs of capacity, for a total of 2 TBs […]

Turbolinux Inc., Wednesday announced that the next release of Turbolinux Server is on the way. Based on Linux Kernel 2.4, Turbolinux 7 Server offers 64 GB of memory, a journal file system, a 128-bit SSL library, and 32 SMP support. It is scheduled to begin shipping on December 7. Turbolinux is focusing on enterprise business […]

Fujistsu Technology Solutions Tuesday released two new PrimePower servers. The PrimePower 650 and PrimePower 850, like other servers in the PrimePower family, contain 675-MHz SPARC64 GPTM chips, and offer “high-end features in a midrange box,” Richard McCormack, vice president of marketing for FTS, told ServerWatch. The 650 and 850 come with dual power supplies, dual […]

Sun Microsystems Monday introduced the newest member of the Sun Fire family. Although an entry server, the Sun Fire V880 has “90 percent of the RAS features found on a mainframe,” John Shoemaker executive vice president and general manager computer systems for Sun Microsystems said. Available immediately, the V880 is a 2-way to 8-way, UltraSPARC-III-based […]

In its continuing quest to capture the Unix server market, IBM Wednesday increased the competition with the introduction of the eServer p610, code-named “Colt.” The two-way Unix server is designed to provide industry-leading performance, wireless manageability features, and advanced self-healing technologies to the entry-level server market. Priced starting at just under $7,500, the p610 falls […]

Hewlett-Packard attempted to fortify its position in the high-end server market Tuesday when it announced a new program designed to entice IBM and Sun Microsystems customers to move to its Superdome server. The program, effective immediately and available worldwide, matches and adds an additional 10 percent to trade-in offers for IBM’s p680 or S80 and […]

With many potshots at IBM and a few at Microsoft, Sun Microsystems on Tuesday unveiled its much anticipated high-end Sun Fire 15K server. Formerly code-named “Starcat,” the Sun Fire 15K will serve as Sun’s new flagship server as the company seeks to offer a “new, comprehensive data center architecture,” Sun President and COO Ed Zander […]

Barely one week after IBM unveiled its latest midrange Unix offering, Hewlett-Packard upped the ante Tuesday when it announced the HP Server rp8400, a midrange Unix server it says is ideally suited for the demanding workloads and return-on-investment priorities of enterprises, service providers, and high-performance technical computing. The HP Server rp8400 is currently available worldwide. […]