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Sun debuts blade, hardware subscription plan

January 9, 2007 Refresh service gives server customers at least three upgrades to the latest hardware in 42 months. TAGS: Sun Blade, Sun Microsystems Inc., blade, AMD Opteron, upgrade, server

Sun expands blade line, includes Intel

June 6, 2007 Aiming for versatility, the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System features three new blade servers plus a smaller blade-server chassis.Video: Sun and Apple sharing filesVideo: Sun says its blades are sharper TAGS: blade, Sun Blade, blade server, Sun Microsystems Inc., AMD Opteron, chassis, server market, Intel Xeon, server, Intel, Apple Computer, video

Sun defends big blade server: 'Size matters'

July 12, 2006 The Sun Blade 8000 may be nearly a yard tall, but execs believe other server makers will follow suit. TAGS: blade server, blade, Sun Blade, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., server, AMD, leader, HP

Sun releases smaller blade chassis

November 14, 2006 New Blade 8000 P is a smaller model than its predecessor and is geared for high-performance technical computing.Photo: Sun's latest blade TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., Silicon Graphics Inc., business computing, blade, Sun Blade, four-processor server, AMD Opteron, high-performance, AMD, server, Intel

Sun begins high-end phase of x86 servers

July 11, 2006 Company launching high-end server, its second attempt at blades and the resurrected "Thumper" packed with 48 disk drives. Photos: Sun's Opteron servers TAGS: x86 server, Sun Blade, blade, Sun Microsystems Inc., AMD Opteron, blade server, chassis, two-processor, Sun UltraSPARC, phase, Intel x86, Sun Solaris, server, AMD, leader, family

Server market picks up a bit

November 22, 2006 Revenue sees its largest growth spurt in four quarters, despite pressure from lower prices and virtualization software. TAGS: x86 server, server market, blade, virtualization, blade server, server, Sun Microsystems Inc., AMD, Intel, Dell

IBM brings Unix, faster chip to Power blades

October 8, 2004 Big Blue says it has improved the processor of its JS20 blade servers and now sells them with its AIX version of Unix. TAGS: blade, IBM AIX, blade server, IBM PowerPC 970, IBM eServer BladeCenter, IBM Corp., high-performance computing, Unix, IBM PowerPC, chassis, SCSI, Intel Xeon, high-performance, Intel, Sun Microsystems Inc., server

Schwartz ends first year at Sun with quarterly profit

April 24, 2007 The company reports net income of $67 million, but misses its revenue goal for the quarter because of server sales slowdown. TAGS: Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., blade server, quarterly profit, Stephen O'Grady, blade, x86 processor, net income, Sun UltraSPARC, storage system, Sun Solaris, Fujitsu, server, CEO, AMD, Intel

Sun upgrades low-end servers

September 13, 2006 Server maker updates its low-end servers with faster 1.5GHz UltraSparc IIIi processors. TAGS: Sun UltraSPARC, Sun UltraSPARC IIIi, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Sparc, blade server, server, blade, PCI

"Blades" shine in grim server market

August 3, 2001 New to the market, the super-slim machines cut a dashing figure, but though they dominate the agenda, even they can't dispel the gloom in the sector overall. TAGS: blade, server market, Transmeta Corp., blade server, Compaq Computer Corp., Gartner Inc., server, Sun Microsystems Inc., conference, IBM Corp., Dell, HP

Sun eyes supercomputing glory

June 26, 2007 The linchpin is a piece of hardware that conducts traffic between the servers, memory and data storage.Image: Sun's Constellation System TAGS: teraflop, supercomputing, supercomputer, Sun Microsystems Inc., InfiniBand, Blue Gene/L, high-performance computing, switch, blade, storage system, data storage, port, high-performance, networking, operation, IBM Corp.

IBM Power blades to arrive in March

November 14, 2003 Big Blue plans to announce on Tuesday a slender server called the JS20 that uses its own Power processors, but a delay means the system won't ship until late in the first quarter. TAGS: blade, IBM eServer BladeCenter, IBM Corp., Intel Xeon, chassis, IBM pSeries, Unix server, IBM xSeries, blade server, IBM AIX, Intel Itanium, Sun UltraSPARC, 64-bit, Linux, server, Unix

Sun recoups server market share

August 23, 2006 Long-suffering No. 3 server maker gains at the expense of IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell. TAGS: x86 server, AMD Opteron, Sun Microsystems Inc., Unix server, blade server, Sun UltraSPARC, shipment, Intel Itanium, server, IBM Corp., blade, Unix, AMD, HP, Dell, Intel

IBM warms to AMD Opteron servers

April 28, 2006 Opteron advantages, plus HP and Sun successes with the chip, could mean a stronger commitment from IBM. TAGS: AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon, x86 server, blade, IBM Corp., multiprocessor, Sun Microsystems Inc., AMD, server, Intel, dual-core, HP, brand, Dell

Sun dual-Niagara servers due in 2008

February 7, 2007 Multithread frenzy takes another step at Sun: "Victoria Falls" chip will mean 128 threads in a single server.Video: Sun CEO looks to future TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Sparc, multi-core processor, blade server, Sun UltraSPARC, thread, Intel Itanium, server, blade, CEO, San Francisco, video

Putting alternative energy to work

June 6, 2007 The clean-technology movement has its hands in some dirty business--and its eye on getting power from on high. TAGS: electricity, alternative energy, blade, blog, Sun Microsystems Inc., server
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