May, 2009

Server sales tank as folks stretch hardware life cycles

According to IDC's recent server report, server sales are plummeting due to the slumping global economy. According to IDC, this is the lowest quarterly server revenue since the analyst firm began tracking the server market on a...

Quest for power efficient servers leads vendors to PC chips

What was once a battle over who could offer the fastest, most powerful server has turned into a competition over which servers can operate on the fewest watts, leading vendors to put PC chips in x86 systems. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="256" caption=""I just can't do it...

Forty-foot Unix history poster will dominate your office

For a mere $340, you can send a major message to your office-mates about how much you love Unix. A new poster from Leighton Jones at Calgary-based Floating Point Digital Images depicts Eric Levenez's diagram of the Unix operating system with...

Shocking news of the day: Intel delays Itanium again

Here's a release I got over email:

Here is an update to the Tukwila Itanium® schedule.  As you know, end users choose Itanium-based servers for their most...

Intel breaks another record; biggest anti-trust fine ever

Intel just broke another record - this time for getting the largest anti-trust fine ever. The European Commission (EC) slapped...

Rackable acquires Silicon Graphics, takes SGI name

Rackable Systems completed its acquisition of Silicon Graphics, Inc. on Monday and oddly enough, Rackable will adopt SGI as its global name and brand, instead of the other way around.