Hewlett-Packard has been struggling in the Unix server market, but it plans an offensive with a product featuring twice the chips of its current top-end Superdome. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

IBM has powered up a prototype of "Squadron," its coming high-end Unix server with 64 Power5 processors, an important step in Big Blue's plans to unify its four server lines. "We manufactured our ...

Big Blue is bringing a faster processor to its lowest-end p615 Unix server and has announced new products for joining its servers to form a supercomputing cluster. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

IBM announced two new top-end Unix servers Friday, creating major challenges to Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. The new servers are the biggest iron in IBM's Squadron family of servers, which ...

While the Unix server business has lost much of its glamour in the face of assaults from Windows, Linux, and the cloud, there is still plenty of life -- and growth -- in the business, although for the ...

Long the server operating system of choice for corporations and universities, Unix has seen its lead in the server OS market slip in recent years. Both Windows and Linux have been eating away at Unix ...

Minimalist systems taught me that distros are not different operating systems but mere configurations, whether server- or ...

IBM on Monday unveiled four new POWER7 server models which it said could lead to a consolidation of smaller servers into fewer larger ones while cutting data center energy costs. The Unix server ...

Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at the Hot Chips conference in late August. IBM, Oracle ...

Rapid growth in the market for x86 servers over the past year brought good news for both Linux and Windows, as research firm IDC reported last week. What’s not always appreciated, however, is just how ...

In the next year or two, Hewlett Packard Enterprise will add support for Intel Optane memory and storage to its latest Unix servers. Optane is a new form of storage and memory that could replace today ...