Supermicro joins industry leaders in developing Itanium marketplace

SAN RAMON, Calif. - August 20, 2008 - The Itanium Solutions Alliance welcomes Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) as a sponsor of the non-profit association. The server hardware manufacturer joins founding sponsors Bull, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, Hitachi, Intel, NEC and SGI in committing time and resources to the growing organization, adding a unique perspective and considerable exp ...

Pragma Systems, a leading provider of enterprise-class remote access and security software for Microsoft Windows and Windows Mobile, announces the release of Pragma FortressSSH Server, Pragma TelnetServer and Pragma ClientSuite for Intel Itanium 64-bit running under the Windows operating system. Intel Itanium based multi-processor servers provide the highest performance Microsoft Windows Server platforms. Now enterprise customers using the high-end Itanium systems will be able to run Pragma's hi ...

Last week, voting wrapped up for the Third Annual ServerWatch Product Excellence Awards. The anticipation has been building for a week, but we can now bring you the results.

After two years of holding this reader-driven program, we thought we knew what to expect. How naive we were. While in some cases history repeated and patterns continued, in others, new and sometimes surprising winners emerged.

As usual, innovation was a key driver, but this year, with enterprises tightening their bel ...

Worldwide server shipments for the first quarter of 2008 increased 7.6 percent over the same quarter last year, while worldwide server revenue for the same period climbed 4.3 percent according to Gartner Inc.

Worldwide server revenues totaled $13.6 billion for the quarter, as worldwide servers shipments reached just under 2.3 million units.

"There were a number of dynamics that affected the market to produce an initial quarter of growth for 2008," said Jeffrey Hewitt, research ...

Depending on how you want to look at it, the United States both helped and hurt sales in the global server market in the first quarter of 2008, according to statistics compiled by the box counters at IDC. The jittery economy in the United States has caused companies large and small to pull back on server spending, but at the same time the weak dollar compared to currencies in overseas markets that are experiencing decent growth in server sales as their economies build up and are amplifying the r ...

Server shipments worldwide increased 7.6 per cent in the first quarter of 2008 compared with the first quarter of last year, while worldwide server revenue for the same period climbed 4.3 per cent, according to Gartner.

Worldwide server revenue climbed $13.6 billion for the quarter, as worldwide server shipments reached just below 2.3 million units.

"There were a number of dynamics that affected the market to produce an initial quarter of growth for 2008," said Jeffrey Hewitt, ...

Itanium Solutions Alliance unveiled its roadmap for 2008 .The alliance also shared winners of its second annual innovation awards and its intention to expand partnerships and solutions presence in India. This years category winners are S7 Software for Entrepreneurial Innovation, Protg Software for Enterprise Business Application achievement; University of Houston for Humanitarian Impact.

"The stories of this year's winners amply demonstrates the impact of Intel Itanium technology in solvi ...

Intel has announced that it will start shipping a quad-core version of its Itanium processor, code-named Tukwila, to system vendors in about six months, with the first servers based on the chip due in early 2009. According to the chipmaker, the new processor would roughly double the performance of the current, dual-core version of Itanium.

Besides additional cores, the new quad-core processor includes 30 megabytes of on-chip cache memory-about 15% more than its predecessor- and Intel's QuickPa ...

Energy costs and infrastructure complexity are rising, right along with the pressure to go "green". These factors are contributing to higher operating costs-while computing requirements continue to grow unabated-which favor technologies that can rein in costs and simplify server management. Moreover, many IT organizations will opt for solutions that improve the cost-efficiency and performance of their existing systems.

Organizations striving for greater data center efficiency are eva ...

It is always a bit slow news-wise around the Memorial Day holiday, and that was as good a reason as any for some of the key members of the Itanium Solutions Alliance to start talking up the future "Tukwila" quad-core Itanium processors, which are expected to start shipping to server makers at the end of 2008 and to appear in servers in early 2009. Another good reason to talk up the Itanium is that competitive dual-core and quad-core chips, many of them running the data center workload ...

As is traditional with Enterprise Linux releases from Red Hat, the latest RHEL 5.2 update that began shipping last week has a bunch of patches to make it work better on recently announced processors and related I/O peripherals. The update, which went into beta in March, also has the usual refresh of the open source stack for Linux as well as bug fixes and security patches. Significantly, the updated Linux kernel also includes support for more scalable processor clusters, for both physical machi ...

There is a lot of vintage server iron out there in the world, and most of it could only be classified as energy efficient if the characterization was being done by a pathological liar. The same holds true for a lot of RISC/Unix iron. And with energy costs rising, companies wanting to scale their applications without paying for new data centers, and the desire to have systems that can better exploit virtualization, server makers enjoyed a pretty good first quarter for shipments and sales from Ja ...

Itanium® Solutions Alliance in collaboration with the world's leading IT companies unveiled its roadmap for 2008 at a special media round table for the Indian media. The alliance also shared winners of its second annual innovation awards and its intention to expand partnerships and solutions presence in India. This year's category winners are S7 Software for Entrepreneurial Innovation, Protégé Software for Enterprise Business Application achievement; University of Houston for H ...

Itanium Solutions Alliance (ISA), a global community dedicated to accelerating the adoption and ongoing development of solutions based on Intel Itanium architecture, is looking to expand its partnerships with Indian IT companies. While unveiling its road map for 2008, ISA talked about its intention to expand partnerships and solutions presence in India.

ISA also shared winners of its second annual innovation awards. Bengaluru-based software services company S7 Software has won the award in the ...

Talks of recession and the skyrocketing price of oil may have Americans watching the economy anxiously, but according to Gartner's report on server revenues through the first quarter of 2008, that segment of the market is still running strong. Both server shipments and server revenue grew in Q1 2008 by 7.6 percent and 4.3 percent, respectively, as Hewlett-Packard overtook IBM in worldwide server market share.

Industry growth was driven by fresh demand for x86-based servers as older units were ...

Worldwide server shipments for the first quarter of 2008 increased by 7,6% over the same quarter last year, while worldwide server revenue for the same period climbed by 4,3% according to Gartner. Worldwide server revenues totalled $13,6bn for the quarter, as worldwide servers shipments reached just under 2,3m units.

"There were a number of dynamics that affected the market to produce an initial quarter of growth for 2008," says Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice-president at Gartner. &qu ...

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) in the first quarter toppled IBM (NYSE: IBM) from the top of the server market based on revenue, besting Big Blue by less than 1%, market research firm Gartner said Thursday.

Total worldwide server shipments rose by 7.6% over the same quarter a year ago to 2.3 million units, and revenue climbed 4.3% to $13.6 billion, Gartner said. Shipments and revenue from x86 servers increased. RISC-Itanium Unix servers fell in shipments, but grew slightly in revenue.

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A Santa Clara-based technology company today is hailing three IT groups - one dealing in software services, another in financial investments and a third in high-performance computing - for using its own "Intel (News - Alert) Itanium" architecture in their work.

The so-called "Itanium Solutions Alliance" was formed to transform the world of proprietary computing platforms to open, industry-standard solutions based on Intel Itanium architecture.

Intel offici ...

Server sales and shipments showed strong growth in the first quarter of the year compared to last year despite continued growth of the use of server virtualization technology, according to analyst firm Gartner.

Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner, of Stamford, Conn., said that certain factors are "masking" the impact of server virtualization.

First, Hewitt said, a lot of the growth in physical server sales is coming from an explosion in the use of certain applica ...

Itanium Solutions Alliance has unveiled its roadmap for 2008 at a special media round table for the Indian media. The alliance also shared winners of its second annual innovation awards and its intention to expand partnerships and solutions presence in India. This year's category winners are S7 Software for Entrepreneurial Innovation, Protégé Software for Enterprise Business Application achievement; University of Houston for Humanitarian Impact.

"The stories of thi ...