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Gateway Inc. will announce this week three servers that executives said are faster, more expandable and more reliable than Gateways current units. The 920 Series, 960 Series and 980 Series servers are upgrades from Gateways 910 Series and 930 Series, which have Intel Corp.s older Celeron and Pentium III processors. Also, the new models have […]

A Utah company this week launched a suite of presentation-layer products designed to speed up the delivery of applications over the Internet. Vultus Inc. rolled out its WebFace Solutions Suite, which includes the WebFace Browser Application Platform and WebFace Studio, a stand-alone integrated development environment. The companys goal is to become the “face of the […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. delivered a scorching attack on Intel Corp.s 64-bit Itanium processor to an audience of analysts and reporters Wednesday, deriding the chips design and lambasting it as the “most expensive disaster in the history of high tech.” The unusually harsh rhetoric from Sun executives marks the companys counterassault against Intels recent promotional efforts […]

Veritas Software Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are among a number of companies planning to roll out storage management products in upcoming months based on the CIM and Bluefin specifications. And it comes at a time when their primary trade association, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), is about to announce its control of the […]

IBM is developing plans for a 64-bit PowerPC chip targeted at desktops and low-end servers, but it remains unclear whether Apple Computer Inc. has committed itself to marketing any systems based on the chip. Initial details of the 64-bit PowerPC were disclosed Thursday when In-Stat/MDR published a brief summary of a presentation IBMs senior PowerPC […]

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Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced the availability of a 64Mb flash memory device designed for use in 2.5G and 3G cellular phones that features enhanced power-saving capabilities to extend battery life, a key concern for handheld manufacturers. The new product consumes significantly less power than competitors offerings in all modes, including up to 95 […]

EMC Corp. will announce the first of three versions of its sixth-generation Clariion midrange storage system next week, sources said. Known as the CX600, the product will have four Intel Corp. 2GHz processors, up to 8GB cache, 2G-bit/second Fibre Channel ports and up to 240 disks. It can be connected as direct-attached storage or in […]

Messaging software maker Critical Path Inc. announced a partnership with storage giant EMC Corp. today, for the companies to jointly target service providers. For the initial deliverable, Critical Path has optimized its CP Messaging Server, CP PIM, CP Presentation Server, Multimedia Messaging Server, CP Directory, and CP MetaDirectory products to use the remote replication functions […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. today boosted the performance of its mid- to high-range servers with the integration of its fastest 64-bit processor yet, a 1.05GHz UltraSparc III. The 64-bit chip, which delivers about 15 percent more performance than its 900MHz predecessor, is now available in the companys mid- to high-end servers, including the eight-way Sun Fire […]

Tatung Co., the Taiwanese firm known for its SPARC-compatible computers, launched a new blade server this week. The new product, called the TUD-2016 Ultra Dense Blade Server, is unique because it has a built-in Gigabit Ethernet port, said James Hwang, director of support and system applications, in San Jose, Calif. “You can eliminate a lot […]

Microsoft wont be waving the white flag when it camps out in Booth 1390 at LinuxWorld Expo next week. But its execs wont be adorned in pith helmets, either. Word of Microsofts decision to staff a booth at the show first hit in July. Since then, Microsoft has been honing the message it intends to […]