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RSS sun bladeSun to pump up high-end servers
News Sun will also cut prices on midrange and high-end machines by as much as 35 per cent, release its new 12-processor Sun Fire v1280 and its new "blade" servers, and improve its N1 plan for managing large quantities of computing hardware. [05 Feb 2003]
Sun plans to be first among the blades runners
News Sun Microsystems' first blade servers will appear early in 2003, carrying the initial elements of the company's N1 plan to make large complexes of computers behave like a single resource. Sun expected its blade servers to debut in 2002, but granted... [11 Dec 2002]
Re:Viewing 2002 - hardware (part two)
News Several companies came out with sleek 'blade servers', though Sun's decision to do so was marked by its decision to ship them with Linux (http://www.silicon.com/a54958). Sun's UltraSPARC processor moved on too and this hardware company could be... [20 Nov 2002]
IBM Itanium servers due early next year
News Now, though, IBM has solid Intel servers, Eunice said, though most of the customer interest will be in the EXA servers and in IBM's new thin 'blade' servers. The Itanium family, which arrived years later than Intel had hoped, is designed to take on... [03 Oct 2002]
IBM and Intel cut blade server deal
News Hewlett Packard is the sole mainstream server maker to sell blade systems, but Dell Computer, IBM and Sun Microsystems each have their own designs. IBM and Intel are joining forces in a multiyear project to design new super-slim "blade" servers... [17 Sep 2002]
Sun setting? The future for McNealy and co...
Comment Sun has just started shipping Linux blade servers - perhaps convinced by the success of Linux appliances sold by Cobalt, a company Sun bought - and claims Linux will happily sit alongside Solaris. The future for Sun Microsystems is uncertain. [02 Sep 2002]
Sun releases low-cost Unix workstation
News The Sun Blade 150 workstation, starting at $1,395, is the latest in a series of inexpensive Risc/Unix workstations designed to compete against workstations based around Intel chips running Windows or Linux. [21 Aug 2002]
Sun starts selling Linux blades
News Sun Microsystems is to launch its first blade servers and Linux machines later this month. The blade server is Sun's first entry into an emerging market space, for easily storable servers designed to be built into large server farms. [05 Aug 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Revenge of the mainframe
Comment Blade servers improve matters to some extent but still involve a good deal of complexity. Price gains mean IBM is claiming a 25 per cent cost reduction for customers who get rid of those pesky computers from HP and Sun. [14 May 2002]
Why Sun cares about software
Comment A month ago the company declared war by releasing a Unix machine for less than $1,000 in the shape of the Blade 100. Sun has started to put some flesh on the bones of its previously skinny internet services strategy. [29 Mar 2001]
Sun sets server prices beneath $1,000
News The Sun Blade 100 will cost $995 in its most basic form: the lowest ever price for a workstation. Although customers will have to dig a bit deeper if they want luxuries such as monitors and 3D graphics cards, the Blade 100 is still half the price... [27 Feb 2001]
Sun rises on UltraSparc
News The first UltraSparc III products shipping today are the high-end workstation Sun Blade 1000 and the Sun Fire 280R server. Sun is backing alternative access devices like mobiles and PDAs to create demand for shared processing power over the network. [27 Sep 2000]
