Sun Microsystems plans to unveil its Sun Fire v1280 server as soon as next week, an effort to ward off IBM's and HP's assault on Sun's No. 1 position among Unix server makers. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding horsepower to its lineup of high-end servers, seeking to beef up its offerings against rival IBM in the Unix server market. Sun today launched its Sun Fire 15K, ...

After a year’s delay, Sun Microsystems’ 16-core “Rock” server chip is on track for delivery in the fall, the head of Sun’s systems business said Monday. The processor will have a new, multi-threaded ...

Sun Microsystems will cut prices as much as 25 percent for its eight-processor V880 server and update it with a faster processor. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Dual-core technology is here. It’s mainstream, and it’s now part of the enterprise server ecosystem. IBM and Sun Microsystems led the charge with dual-core versions of their Power5 and UltraSparc ...

Quoting two unnamed sources within Sun, the Times wrote that the server vendor canceled the Rock project after five years of development and after numerous shipment delays. In January 2009, Sun CEO ...

To anyone with a base level of computer knowledge, the concept of a single system with 48 hard drives seems insane. To IT folks, it’s even more outrageous; most disk arrays are limited to 15 drives ...

Sun Microsystems has decided not to press ahead with selling its MAJC-5200 as a graphics processor, but will just use it internally in a forthcoming graphics card for UltraSparc-based workstations.

Sun announced today the release of their long awaited Niagara processor, the next step in the UltraSparc line. Claiming it will outperform rivals clock for clock while using less power, the eight-core ...

Sun Microsystems intends to introduce a 12-processor Sun Fire v1280 server as soon as next week, a machine built to ward off IBM's and Hewlett-Packard's assault on Sun's No. 1 position among Unix ...