Server

Unit shipment growth was flat (0.0% growth) year over year in 4Q06, the tenth consecutive quarter of slowing overall shipment growth. This trend reflects moderating unit growth, particularly in the x86 market segment, as server...

IBM held onto its number 1 spot in the worldwide server systems market with 37.9% market share in factory revenue for 4Q06, growing factory revenue by 3.8% year over year.This growth was driven by solid performance from its...

According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew 5.2% year over year to $15.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2006, marking the third consecutive quarter of positive...

The server blade market showed continued growth in the quarter, with factory revenue gaining 18.2% year over year and shipments increasing by 16.9% compared to 4Q05.Overall, bladed servers, including x86, EPIC and RISC blades,...

The Santa Clara, California-based company, after years of lacklustre chip designs, overhauled its processor strategy with multicore chips that cram numerous processing engines onto each slice of silicon. Servers with...

Got a problem with connecting to a server using Remote Desktop Connection. Using Windows XP, I connect to the server from the client, enter my username and password and everything works fine, it displays loading user settings,...

RADIUS was initially created by a company called Livingston and later became an International Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard defining an authentication protocol between network access points and an authentication...

According to IDC's Quarterly Server Tracker, EMEA sales of servers in 3Q06 posted positive annual growth in both revenue and units for the first time in a year, partly due to renewed mainfraime and RISC upgrade activity across...

A new report by Web security Solution provider Finjan highlights the discovery of malicious content residing in cached web pages on storage and caching servers, such as those used by ISPs, enterprises and leading search...

My apologies for the constant stream of posts on the VML exploit. I’m really not trying to spread a unnecessary panic here — and we are not at panic levels on this thing. There’s just a fair amount of data coming out on this...

Microsoft is upping up the ante with the continued distribution of public betas. After Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7.0, Microsoft Office 2007, the firm has today announced availability of the public betas of Exchange Server...

Google has a radically different approach when it comes to getting their servers up and running. Because it ‘uses’ several thousands of servers every year, Google has managed to get its special needs catered for by its own...

Redundancy is often associated with storage and is one of the pillars of any good corporate strategy. One can never be too cautious when it comes to safeguarding data.Yet while you will find dozens of reviews on enterprise-class...

I seldom say no to an old friend looking for a helping hand. So when my ex-boss asked me for a few words of wisdom on how to buy servers, I accepted.It was not an easy task and I found myself in front of a consultant that wanted...

Those of you who have been around long enough will surely remember the co-processors that were around roughly two decades ago. As their names indicate, the role of the co-processor is to assist the central processing unit or...