Hewlett-Packard unveiled a design for its blade servers Wednesday in the United States that will let people cram up to 16 separate servers or storage devices into a 17-inch box.
Hewlett-Packard will take its first steps into the "ultradense" server market in the fourth quarter with a machine code-named Powerbar, and Transmeta's Crusoe chip could find its way into the design.
Central Queensland University (CQU) is set to retire a number of "disparate servers" as its implementation of Oracle 10g (version 2) nears the end of the hardware deployment phase.
Adelaide-based Web hosting company Hostworks is ramping up its investment in server virtualisation after re-signing its biggest customer, NineMSN, for a further three to six years.
Hewlett-Packard announced two dual-processor Itanium servers on Thursday, along with a faster version of Unix to run on the systems.
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.
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The server maker won't be joining chipmaker Intel and rival IBM in an effort to standardise blade servers, predicts market researcher Gartner. Additional reading: Picking the right server
Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard are preparing new higher-end Unix servers for debut near the end of the year, and several other models will spring up from HP before then.
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An unusually small and simple corporate desktop, the HP e-Vectra competes directly with the Compaq iPAQ and other appliance PCs soon to arrive from companies such as IBM. Though other appliance PCs aim for flashy designs, the e-Vectra is a little more buttoned-down and instead provides many of the manageability and security tools found in other lines such as Vectra desktop PCs.
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