IBM has shed light on an agreement with Sun that gives its customers the option of choosing Sun's Unix-based Solaris 10 as the operating system on IBM's x86-based System x or BladeCenter servers.
Big Blue is aiming to persuade SMBs to cut their teeth on blade servers, with the launch of a server system targeted at smaller companies.
Big Blue will soon offer more energy-efficient dual-processor servers using new AMD and Intel chips in Australia.
Sustainability Victoria expects to slash its energy use by more than 50 percent with the implementation of IBM BladeCenter servers in its new office in Melbourne.
IBM has dramatically expanded a partnership to use Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processors in its servers, announcing in the US on Tuesday a full-fledged server line geared for mainstream business use.
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A lot of marketing effort has been thrown at the concept of green computing and sustainable IT, but much of the advice is fairly nebulous, fuzzy and ill thought out.
Technology firms make their living advising customers how to reinvent their IT, but Dimension Data found a dose of its own medicine to be highly instructive. David Braue explains how.
Intel announced "Sossaman" on Tuesday, a low-voltage version of its Xeon server processors that consumes between a third and a fifth the amount of electrical power as its brethren.
Intel demonstrated two quad-core processors Tuesday in the United States, "Clovertown" for servers and "Kentsfield" for PCs, directing attention toward the future during a more troubled present.
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In an industry that loves buzzwords, autonomic computing continues to attract attention. Can the promise of self-managing IT systems ever be met, and how will businesses change if that happens?
IBM is taking the long view for Intel-based servers.
IBM has beeen fairly tight-lipped about the particulars of its forthcoming "high-function" blade servers, but that's all changed now -- the word is out.
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