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• Intel servers slice and dice Linux

  Intel servers are starting to gain some valuable features of higher-end Unix systems and mainframes with improvements to software that lets a single machine act like several computers.

• Intel takes another stab at high-end server market

  Intel Australia, which anticipates capturing a larger share of the high-end server market with the release of its new chip, explains why it's hoping Itanium 2 will be the success it is looking for.

• Intel to get widespread restructuring

  CEO Paul Otellini said on Thursday that Intel will undergo a complete restructuring.

• IBM, Dell headed for price war Down Under?

  Australia will see IBM attacking the server stronghold of Dell Computer and Hewlett-Packard later this month, using the aggressive pricing strategy that proved effective against Sun Microsystems.

• Microsoft talking big for servers

  For years, Microsoft has argued that servers containing only a handful of processors are good enough for most of the world.

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  Itanium's growing pains

  Last week I had the chance to hear HP give their world view on why you should join them and Intel on Itanium for your next generation of servers.

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  Ubuntu can't cut geek support umbilical

  Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala was officially released overnight and marked the eleventh release of the distribution. It's attractive, polished and measured, but fails "the grandma test".

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  Snow Leopard bites Office 2008

  Feeding Snow Leopard with juicy Office 2008 discs caused a few problems for our New Zealand correspondent.

• Taking datacentres on the road

  Is it a truck? Is it a giant portable wind tunnel? Well, yes -- but it's also a mobile datacentre with a maximum capacity of 4.1 petabytes of storage, which would easily hold an awful lot of high-res Superman footage.

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• New chip powers high-end Intel servers

  Intel has released three new Xeon chips for four-and eight-processor servers in a move to increase the pressure on Sun Microsystems.

• Intel and Cray link up, denting AMD

  Supercomputer expert Cray and Intel have entered a multi-year agreement on high-performance computing, a deal that seems to leave rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in the lurch.

• Intel takes another stab at high-end server market

  Intel Australia, which anticipates capturing a larger share of the high-end server market with the release of its new chip, explains why it's hoping Itanium 2 will be the success it is looking for.

• 64-Bit Windows: "A long time coming"

  Windows platform Vice President Jim Allchin tells developers and Intel CTO Pat Gelsinger that "it's time for the transition," after announcing an April release of Microsoft's 64-bit version of Windows at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

• Itanium seen trailing rivals in 2007

  Although the sale of servers based around Intel's Itanium chips will grow, they will still lag behind IBM and Sun, one research firm says.

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• New chip powers high-end Intel servers

  Intel has released three new Xeon chips for four-and eight-processor servers in a move to increase the pressure on Sun Microsystems.

• From Intel: New P4 chip, Itanium plans

  Intel has come out with a Pentium 4 running at 3.2GHz and separately has plans to discuss a new version of its upcoming Madison chip specially enhanced for dual-processor servers and workstations.

• 64-Bit Windows: "A long time coming"

  Windows platform Vice President Jim Allchin tells developers and Intel CTO Pat Gelsinger that "it's time for the transition," after announcing an April release of Microsoft's 64-bit version of Windows at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

• Infiniband -- old before its time?

  Infiniband, the new storage/server interconnect, has been snubbed by Intel and Microsoft -- but that's no reason to count it out.

• Looking over AMD's shoulder: Intel

  Complacency is not a strategy for long-term growth. Thus, according to Bill O'Brien, Intel is keeping watch as AMD's hammer technology makes inroads into the server market.

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