Oracle logged a small milestone in its Sun acquisition during the first quarter, expanding sales of Sun's server hardware for the first time in three-and-a-half years, IDC reported Tuesday.
First there were the interminably long lines outside butcher shops across the country last September prompted by the meat dress she wore at the MTV Video Music Awards. And now this.
Propelled by revenue increases in four of its five business units, Microsoft on Thursday reported a 31 percent jump in fiscal third-quarter net income.
Dell on Thursday served up a new choice for buying its servers: plug-and-play configurations that include up to 200 VMware virtual machines along with the networking and storage needed to run them.
Chip maker Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) reported a 48 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit after Thursday's market close, sending shares up to $22 in after-hours trading, a gain of 3.3 percent over its 21.29 regular-session closing price.
Thinking about filling out your data center to support more virtual desktops and servers? Plan how you're going to convince the CFO you really need more graphics than his punk sk8rboi gamer nephew.
If certain server and virtualization vendors get their way, end-user companies will be buying many fewer individual servers in a few years, and many more integrated packages of infrastructure.
Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM rolled-out new servers on Tuesday based on Intel's latest Xeon 5600 microprocessors, which promise better performance and power consumption.
Server shipments increased in the fourth quarter of 2009, but revenue fell as x86 servers continued to bite into the declining market for Unix servers with RISC and Itanium chips, Gartner said in a study released on Wednesday.
Going from a $15 million to $35 million company in 18 months after an acquisition and taking on a 6500sqm warehouse that sends out 150,000 books per week in 7000 cartons to service 1200 orders is, as you can imagine, no small feat.
When the data center neared its failure point, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory embarked on a project to revamp facilities without breaking the budget. Consider these practical lessons from the edge of failure.
Worldwide server unit shipments declined 26.5 percent year-over-year in the first quarter to around 1.49 million units, the largest unit shipment decline in five years, IDC said.