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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IBM Corp. on Monday will add a second Itanium 2 server to its xSeries product line, a system it is billing as the first Itanium server from a major vendor to scale from 4 to 16 processors. The eServer ...

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 ...

Gateway on Thursday added one more server option into its mix. The Gateway 960X, which began shipping this week, is designed for small- and mid-size businesses as well as workgroups within larger ...

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 ...