Windows Server 2008 R2 got the lion's share of attention on Thursday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles, starting with a keynote by Microsoft exec Bill Laing.

Laing is Microsoft's corporate vice president of the Windows Server Division. While much of the news about Windows Server 2008 R2 features had been disclosed last week at Microsoft's Professional Developer's Conference, the keynote hit the high points for an audience consisting largely of Microsoft's hardware e ...

Microsoft has been working with partners to support more than 64 processors for Windows applications and device drivers. IBM, Intel and HP today joined Bill Laing, corporate vice president of Windows Server and Solutions, during his keynote address to showcase the scalability benefits of supporting more than 64 processors, a new feature of Windows Server 2008 R2. This capability allows customers to take advantage of the latest hardware advancements for improved performance.

"Customers nee ...

HP today announced that 40 European customers have successfully migrated in the past year from legacy mainframe systems to HP Integrity servers, achieving data center cost savings of up to 70 percent.(1)

Increasingly, companies are migrating from mainframes to HP Integrity servers for mission-critical IT operations in an effort to reduce high hardware operating and software licensing costs. HP expects to help migrate an additional 125 European companies in the next 12 months.

HP's contin ...

Alliance Boosts SGI Real-Time Visual Complex Event Processing Solution

SUNNYVALE and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., (Oct. 21, 2008) - Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGIC) and Coral8, Inc. today announced a strategic alliance to integrate and package Coral8's complex event processing (CEP) software with SGI® Altix® servers. The new agreement makes the Coral8 Engine a core part of a new real-time, visual CEP capability from Silicon Graphics.

"Coral8 and SGI are bringing powerful new ...

Thane Janata Sahakari Bank (TJSB), a co-operative bank with a network of 42 branches and two extension counters spread in Thane, Mumbai Navi-Mumbai, Pune, and Nashik, It is planning to upgrade its existing server infrastructure to Itanium-based servers.

Subodh Nagvekar, CIO of TJSB said, "The decentralised branch banking approach didn't quite work in the current business scene so a contemporary technology-based core banking solution was the need of the hour. We are now looking to implemen ...

New Alliances Enhance Ability to Rapidly Extract Insights from Large-Scale Oracle Data Warehouse

At Oracle Open World today, Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGIC) showcased new third-party applications that extend the ecosystem of the SGI® Adaptive Data Warehouse Solution.

The new tools help make the SGI solution, optimized for Oracle® data warehouses, even more effective in managing soaring data volumes, increasingly complex analyses, data mining and visualization, multiple work ...

Significant new release ports TeleUSE to multiple high-performance systems

San Diego, CA, September 15, 2008-Aonix®, an independent international company delivering complete solutions for safety- and mission-critical applications, released TeleUSE® version 4.0, the latest version of its object-oriented User Interface Management System environment, for 64-bit architectures. New platform support in TeleUSE 4.0 enables seamless cross-platform Motif graphical user interface (GUI) applica ...

Highlights Key Predictions for Indian IT Marketing in 2008 and Beyond

Mumbai, India, September 11, 2008 - IT end user spending in India is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.8 per cent from 2007 through 2012 to generate US $110 billion in 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. In 2008, IT end user spending is on pace to reach US $64.7 billion, a 17.2 per cent increase from 2007.

This prediction, supplemented by a robust gross domestic product (GDP) averaging 8.08 pe ...

The server market in Asia grew by a healthy margin in Q2 2008, according to a new report that credits the AP with driving worldwide industry growth. Asian sales grew by 15.6% over the quarter compared to the same quarter in 2007. Gartner reports that server revenues totaled $2.01 billion for the quarter and 390,758 units were shipped.

Gartner's report acknowledges potential trouble in the US, but emerging markets like India, Indonesia, and Vietnam are helping to take up the slack and are pushi ...

In the second quarter of 2008, Asia Pacific server shipments posted another healthy growth of 15.6 percent year-on-year. Revenue increased 5.4 percent year-on-year, according to Gartner, Inc. Server revenues totaled US$2.01 billion for the quarter, as server shipments reached 390,758 units.

Despite the US downturn, healthy economic conditions in many of the emerging markets in the region like India, Indonesia and Vietnam is fuelling IT spending across various industries.

The x86 server ...