Skies clear for Sun/Oracle in local server market: Analysts
Asia Pacific proved the only growth area for Sun servers last year as end users came to grips with the company's acquisition by Oracle, according to analysts.
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AMD's server battle against Intel is all about execution: Analyst
AMD will have to communicate intimately with vendors, channel partners and end-users if it is to stand a chance against mainstay x86 processor manufacturer Intel, according to IDC analyst Felipe Rego. AMD recently launched its Opteron 6000 processors for one to four-socket servers, but it only has a 7 per cent share of the x86 server market, according to the research firm.
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Oracle's ambitious plans for integrating Sun's technology
Oracle has presented an overview of its ambitions for its newly acquired Sun products, focusing on integrated systems offering everything from the application to the database, servers and storage.
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Intel ahead of schedule with new Xeon server chips
Intel is set to start production of its next-generation Xeon quad-core server chips ahead of schedule, which could then appear in systems as early as the first quarter of next year, a company official said on Tuesday.
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HP offers SSDs in ProLiant server line
HP has announced it will offer 60GB and 120GB solid-state disk (SSD) drives as an option across the full range of HP ProLiant G6 servers, as well as in select ProLiant G5 servers.
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Analysis: Would you like a data center with that server?
Faced with the continued commoditization of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward more highly integrated, unified compute platforms.
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Ghosts of Cyrix, PowerPC, Transmeta haunt x86-bound Nvidia
Experts have one question about Nvidia's public admission last week that it may offer its own PC processor: What took you so long?