The ferocious rivalry between Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM continues to yield big benefits for users. Last week, both vendors introduced Unix servers bristling with high-end features but bearing ...

Sun Microsystems will unveil four new midrange Unix servers, a critical milestone in its drawn-out effort to stave off reinvigorated competition from IBM and HP. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

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giant outpaced rivals in the midrange server category by differentiating itself in areas of vendor support and ability to upgrade. Key products in IBM's midrange lineup, defined as servers priced at ...

IBM last week rolled out several quad-core systems that provide performance enhancements and configuration flexibility. The IBM System p5 Express Servers use IBM’s Power5+ processors and the systems, ...

The growing popularity of server virtualization and an early emphasis on dual-core x64-based processors are paying dividends for Hewlett-Packard and its partners. With its high-end ProLiant, HP came ...

Hoping to cement its new status as the U.S. server market leader, Sun Microsystems Inc. this morning announced a new line of aggressively priced midrange servers that it claimed would deliver ...

In a bid to capture more of the mid-range server market, IBM has introduced aneight-way Unix machine. Dubbed the eServer pSeries 650, the new unitincludes some features that were previously available ...

Two systems vendors this week unveiled servers for small and midsized businesses – SGI announced a midrange Linux server, and Dell announced a dual-core server. SGI’s $7,000 Altix 330 server is ...

Fujitsu releases its high performance, highly reliable mid-range server, the M10-4 Server. It is an ideal choice for data center integration and virtualization. It can be configured with as many as 64 ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems is planning a new midrange Unix server to even out its product line, a company executive said Tuesday at the company's annual analyst conference here. Sun's current ...