IBM sues mainframe company for patent infringement
Platform Solutions (PSI), a company that makes a system that allows IBM mainframe operating systems to run on Itanium-based hardware, is facing a lawsuit from Big Blue.
Stories by Patrick Thibodeau
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HP updates Itanium-based Integrity servers
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Thursday announced an upgrade and expansion of its Itanium-based Integrity server line to include new low-end models, a processor upgrade and improved virtualization support that it hopes will make the systems more attractive to Windows and Linux users.
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HP exec talks up features in BladeSystem line
Scott Stallard, senior vice president and general manager of Hewlett-Packard's enterprise storage and servers group, spoke with Computerworld this week after the launch of the company's new BladeSystem c-Class hardware line.
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Sun's restructuring leaves questions about direction
The restructuring at Sun Microsystems announced Wednesday, in which the company said it will "simplify" product lines, eliminate redundant research and development and cut its workforce by as much as 13 percent, has left a lot of unanswered questions, especially about how these changes will affect Sun's customers.
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IBM, HP unveil multicore servers
The single-core processor is apparently all but history, as major server vendors Hewlett-Packard and IBM last week brought out new systems based on Intel's dual-core chips.
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Gartner sees declining need for tech skills
The need for employees with specific IT skills will decline 10 percent per year as companies move to commodity and virtualized systems, according to Gartner.
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Unisys upgrades ES7000, offers lower cost SafeGuard
Unisys has announced an upgrade to its high-end Intel-based server line, the ES7000, as well as a new business continuity product.
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Mainframe sites remain key to Sun's storage strategy
Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy may call the mainframe an airplane with pedals but such systems remain a big part of Sun's storage business, thanks in part to its acquisition of Storage Technology last year.
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Unisys posts Q1 loss of US$28M, announces layoffs
Unisys is still struggling, but not much as it was a year ago. The company Tuesday reported a net loss of nearly US$28 million for its first quarter on revenue of US$1.39 billion and announced 3,600 layoffs it had earlier telegraphed would be coming.
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IBM ups data management ante to match IT trends
IBM last week announced a multipronged data management initiative that has been driven by several trends: hardware that's getting increasingly supercomputerlike, improved software capabilities for accessing data, pressure from data-intensive technologies such as RFID, and an overall desire by businesses to improve their use of information.
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IBM's iSeries line gets upgraded hardware, OS
IBM is releasing a new operating system as well as updated hardware for its iSeries line, part of the company's ongoing effort to modernize and expand the number of applications available for the systems.
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Sun releases UltraSparc specs to developers
Sun Microsystems on Tuesday quietly released engineering specifications for its UltraSparc chip, making the previously proprietary information available to open-source developers more than a month ahead of schedule.
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Group asks to evaluate nanotech ethics, safety risks
The development of products that use nanotechnology is racing ahead of the understanding of their potential health and safety risks, according to Patrick lin, research director of The Nanoethics Group, which is assembling industry and academic representatives worldwide to examine ethical and social issues raised by the technology.
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Stratus adds dual-core chips to systems
Stratus Technologies said Monday it would begin shipping a server with dual-core processors that is about half the price of its current high-end system, but just as reliable.
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Sun to offer all core software products as open-source
Sun Microsystems said Wednesday that it will offer all its core software products as open-source, making all of its middleware, management and Java development tools free to use. The move follows Sun's decision last year to offer Solaris as open-source and is aimed at developers.
