Jeff Burt

IBM is rolling out enhanced high-end System p servers armed with the latest Power5+ processor and greater virtualization capabilities. The servers—the 64-core p5-595 and the 32-core p5-590—come with IBMs new Dual Stress processor technology, which the Armonk, N.Y., company first developed for game consoles and which officials said gives the larger system the record-breaking benchmark […]

Sun Microsystems lurching financial recovery continued in its fiscal fourth quarter, as continued revenue growth was overshadowed by charges related to its restructuring plans, particularly around job cuts. The Santa Clara, Calif., company on July 25 reported a quarterly loss of $301 million, compared with a $50 million profit in the same quarter in 2005. […]

Power.org, the community group announced by IBM in December 2004 to expand the reach of the Power architecture, is taking a larger role in the evolution of the platform. The group, which now numbers more than 40 members—including five new ones—is overseeing the merging of the various instruction sets for the architecture and a rebranding […]

Marathon Technologies, which uses virtualization technology to create a high-availability environment for Microsoft applications, is expanding its support to include Advanced Micro Devices Opteron processors. Currently Marathons EverRun line supports Intel microprocessors. Marathon will announce its Opteron support July 25. Steve Keilen, vice president of marketing for the Littleton, Mass., company, said branching out to […]

IBM was the first top-tier OEM to embrace Advanced Micro Devices Opteron processor when the chip maker unveiled its new 64-bit x86 processor in 2003. Since then, the Armonk, N.Y., company has used Opteron chips only in a few systems and blades targeted at the high-performance computing space, while other rivals—most notably Hewlett-Packard and Sun […]

Advanced Micro Devices is gearing up for the August launch of its next-generation Opteron server processor, another dual-core chip that will offer greater memory and virtualization features. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company will roll out the processor later in August, according to spokesman Phil Hughes. He declined to be more specific on the date, but said […]

The U.S. Senate is next in line to take up the issue of power consumption in data centers. Mirroring what the House of Representatives did the week of July 10, the Senate on July 19 introduced a bill that would have the federal Environmental Protection Agency review the issues surrounding power consumption in data centers, […]

For Hewlett-Packard, the long-awaited launch of Intels “Montecito” chip will mean finally being able to pair its new chip set technology with the first dual-core Itanium 2 processor. The result will be greater performance, availability and cost efficiency for HPs largest customers. “Customers will effectively be able to get the work of two copies of […]

IBM will use the latest release of Novells SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 to bring the Xen open-source virtualization technology to its x86 servers. The Armonk, N.Y., company announced July 17 that it initially will support Xen on its server and blade platforms that run on Intel and Advanced Micro Devices processors, and that its middleware […]

Congress is turning its attention to power and cooling in the data center, asking the federal Environmental Protection Agency to gather information on the subject. The House of Representatives on July 12 overwhelmingly passed Resolution 5646, instructing the EPAs Energy Star program to study how much power corporate and federal data centers consume, what the […]

IBM is looking to give smaller businesses running Oracles ERP applications an alternative to Windows-based offerings on Intel-powered servers with the latest in a series of System i packages aimed at the small and midtier space. The Armonk, N.Y., company in August will start shipping its System i 520 Solution Edition for Oracles JD Edwards […]

Congress is about to take up the issue of energy efficiency in federal and private data centers. The House of Representatives is expected to vote July 12 on a bill asking that the Environmental Protection Agency conduct a study on power consumption in data centers, what chip makers and systems manufacturers are doing to increase […]