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Asia server market set for slowdown
News Credit crunch will cause server demand in the Asia-Pacific region to drop this quarter and "shave a few" percentage points off growth next year, says analyst.
Tags: Servers, Sales/revenue, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT budgeting, Region, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Gartner Inc., Server Market, Server
Lenovo goes global with servers
News The hardware vendor unveils five rack and tower servers, and names India and several Southeast Asian countries as its key markets in Asia.
Tags: Servers, Server platforms, Product marketing, Hardware, India, Small And Medium Business, Server Market, Server, Lenovo Group Ltd., software
Via not serious contender to Intel, AMD
News Taiwanese player has strengths to compete in niche areas but lacks the investment and product performance to truly take on the big boys, says analyst.
Tags: Multiprocessor servers, Processors, Personal Computers, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Mobile, Cloud Computing, Server Market, Environment, Server
Worldwide server sales continue to fall
News IBM and Dell manage to gain a hold in market share, amid a carnage in declining sales revenues, leaving Sun as the weakest link.
Tags: Servers, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., International Data Corp., Unix, Sales, Sun Microsystems Inc., Unix server, Server, Servers
Intel seeks new 'microserver' standard
News Intel doesn't want to be the only one touting eensy-weensy servers aimed at Web site hosting companies. It's trying to standardize its design.
Tags: Servers, Intel Corp., quad-core processor, Computer, Hosting Company, Server, processor, computer industry, blade server, Web Site
'Ferociously loyal' users to stand by Sun
News Loyalty, cost and little reason to defect will help keep customers by Sun Microsystems' side, while the hardware vendor awaits approval of Oracle acquisition.
Tags: Servers, Server platforms, Acquisitions, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., International Data Corp., Unix, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server
Juniper eyes midmarket, aims for Cisco
News update With new partner and product launches, Juniper Networks sets eyes on new markets, particularly those dominated by market leader Cisco Systems.
Tags: Routing/switching, Ethernet, Junos Space, software, network, partnership, Cisco Systems Inc., Juniper Networks Inc., OEM, Server
As server sales tank, IBM still leads pack
News Worldwide server revenue falls 14 percent year over year in the fourth quarter, IDC says, while full-year revenue for 2008 dips 3.3 percent.
Tags: Servers, App servers, File servers, E-mail servers, Web servers, IBM Corp., International Data Corp., Sales, File servers, Server
APAC Q4 server results dulls full-year growth
News After 25 quarters of growth, Asia-Pacific server shipments dip 4.6 percent in fourth quarter of 2008, pulling down year's overall numbers, says IDC.
Tags: Servers, Sales/revenue, IBM Corp., International Data Corp., Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Gartner Inc., APAC Q4 Server Result, Server, research company
Wind River launches embedded hypervisor
News Wind River Hypervisor for embedded systems promises to let multiple operating systems run side by side on a single or multicore chip.
Tags: Virtualization, Intel Corp., Hypervisor, operating system, Wind River Systems Inc., device manufacturer, processor, Virtualization, car, multi-core processor
Microsoft: Server version of Windows 7 this year
News In another sign Windows 7 is on track for release this year, the head of the Windows Server unit says the server operating system based on Windows 7 will ship in 2009.
Tags: Web servers, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Server, release candidate, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, CNET Networks Inc.
Recession hits APAC server shipment
News Fourth-quarter Asia-Pacific server shipments dip 5.8 percent year-on-year, with emerging markets taking bigger hit, according to Gartner figures.
Tags: Servers, IT-spending, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Gartner Inc., server revenue, Server, research analyst, Korea, recession
Networks vs. servers: The truce has ended
Techguide Recent activity by HP and Cisco suggests the truce between networking vendors and server vendors, has ended. See why, and how it could benefit IT.
Tags: Servers, Virtualization, Data Management, Data centers, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., HP ProCurve, Cisco Systems Inc., Jason Hiner, Server
Microsoft server boss on Sun-IBM, economy
News In an interview, Bill Laing says the sluggish economy probably accelerated merger discussions. As for Microsoft, a deal would mean both one fewer partner and one fewer rival.
Tags: Servers, Acquisitions, Mergers, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., single processor, Windows Server 2008 Foundation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server
Is the economy changing how you manage server turnover?
Techguide Server pricing has plummeted in recent years, but hard evidence still shows sales have declined. To what extent has the current economic climate affected server turnover?
Tags: Servers, IT budgeting, Virtualization, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), International Data Corp., Sales, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Server, e-mail, software-as-a-service
