Intel launched its new 64-bit Itanium server chip with little fanfare on Tuesday, but major computer makers chimed in with a slew of new Itanium servers. Intel hopes the new chip will challenge Sun's stronghold on the server market.
Linux servers posted their ninth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth with YTY revenue growth of 42.6% and unit shipments up 31.
According to IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew at 5.5% YTY to $11.
Microsoft on Wednesday released a new test version of Windows 2000 designed computer manufacturers who want to mold the operating system for their own designs. Windows 2000, released a year ago, has been catching on more slowly than the Redmond, Wash.
With digital data traffic approximately doubling every year, demand for servers that manage and direct that traffic over telecom provider networks - Data Infrastructure Servers (DISs) - will grow geometrically as well, according to In-Stat/MDR. However, since voice traffic growth is nearly flat, voice-centric NEBS-Compliant Servers (NCSs), another segment of the teledatacom server market, will be similarly flat over the next several years, the high tech research firm says.
Sun Microsystems drastically slashed financialtargets for the current quarter and announced astock buy-back.During a Thursday conference call with analysts,executives for the maker of servers and networksoftware said they now expect the company to reportearnings of 7 to 9 cents per share, or possibly less thanhalf of what Wall Street expected.
ISP Thus has taken the unprecedented step of promising to remove known child pornography newsgroups from its servers amid growing concerns in the UK that the Internet is teeming with predatory paedophiles. The ISP, which is behind the brand Demon Internet, says it will take a more proactive approach to policing and removing paedophile content from Web pages and newsgroups hosted by its servers.
Sales of computer servers were solid Q4 2004, rising 5.7% and matching expectations, according to Gartner.
Unix server revenues were $5.2 bln in Q4 2004, increasing 2.
CART32, a popular shopping cart for small e-commerce sites, has been found to have a software backdoor that allows access to the servers running the software, said Cerberus Internet Security Ltd. in a Thursday advisory.