Analyst firm IDC has revealed that contrary to hitherto negative publicity, the Intel Itanium processor-based server market is now entering a strong growth phase.
Intel is expected to use next week’s Intel Developer Forum to announce production of Dempsey, the first major Xeon server chip to use dual processing cores.
Virtualisation will be one of the big themes at next week's Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, along with the growing challenge of how to cool servers.
Worldwide server shipments increased 12.7% over the past year, with Hewlett-Packard the leading supplier by market share, research from industry analyst Gartner reveals.
IBM has extended the work it is doing with Red Hat and Novell in a bid to make Linux and open source software a more compelling option for IT directors.