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• Oracle's ambitious plans for integrating Sun's technology

  By Paul Krill | 28 January, 2010 07:18

  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.

• Returning confidence lifts server sales

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 16 September, 2009 15:40

  Several integrators and distributors are claiming a return of business confidence is starting to drive an uptick in infrastructure hardware spending.

• Intel ahead of schedule with new Xeon server chips

  By Agam Shah | 23 September, 2009 12:32

  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.

• HP offers SSDs in ProLiant server line

  By Lucas Mearian | 18 September, 2009 07:23

  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.

• Server revenue reached new lows in Q2, IDC says

  By Agam Shah | 02 September, 2009 14:32

  Worldwide factory server revenue reached its lowest in more than a decade during the second quarter of 2009, bitten by weak demand and constrained IT budgets, according to an IDC study released on Wednesday.

• IBM bundles x86 servers with VMware, offers special financing

  By Jon Brodkin | 02 July, 2009 08:11

  IBM is bundling its x86 servers with VMware's newest virtualization platform, and offering financing packages to lower upfront costs.

• Vendors pitch stripped-down servers to giant Web properties

  By Jon Brodkin | 11 June, 2009 08:02

  The explosion of giant Web properties has server vendors building a new kind of machine that is stripped down to the bare essentials and optimized for cost- and energy-efficiency, analysts say.

• Server revenue declined sharply in Q1, IDC says

  By Agam Shah | 29 May, 2009 08:06

  A precipitous fall in worldwide server shipments triggered a sharp decline in revenue for server makers during the first quarter of 2009, IDC said in a survey released on Thursday.

• The downfall of Sun Microsystems

  By Jon Brodkin | 27 April, 2009 16:27

  Oracle's surprising US$7.4 billion deal to purchase Sun this week gives Larry Ellison and crew a big stake in the hardware market as well as control over Java and other well-known open source technologies. But it also spells the end of an independent Sun Microsystems, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent companies.

• The downfall of Sun Microsystems

  By Jon Brodkin | 27 April, 2009 08:48

  Oracle's surprising US$7.4 billion deal to purchase Sun this week gives Larry Ellison and crew a big stake in the hardware market as well as control over Java and other well-known open source technologies. But it also spells the end of an independent Sun Microsystems, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent companies.

• x86 servers experience record Q2

  By Julia Talevski | 29 September, 2008 12:20

  The x86 server market hit record shipments in the second quarter this year, according to IDC.