Though Unisys' 32-processor ES7000 server has been available with Windows for more than a year, the speed record Gates referred to was set by a new NEC server with 32 Itanium processors. Intel servers today use 32-bit processors such as Pentiums or...
Lower-end eight- and 16-processor Integrity models are due later this year, and a Superdome upgrade with 128 Itanium processors is expected in January. The loudest support comes from Itanium co-inventor Hewlett-Packard, which will announce the new...
IBM countered that HP's Itanium Superdome results have used Windows, which has a much less mature collection of software, and that HP has yet to post a Superdome result with HP-UX and Itanium. In addition, IBM's cost per transaction was slightly...
Migration costs are a big concern for HP as it tries to steer Unix customers with servers based on HP's PA-RISC processor to the new HP Itanium-based Integrity line. Hewlett-Packard is merging several management tools into a single product code...
HP said in a statement that its investment is designed to "vault Intel Itanium 2-based HP Integrity servers to the leadership position in the $20bn market currently served by RISC processors". One of the chief stumbling blocks in Intel's Itanium...
The deal, announced on Tuesday, will see Parallels Virtuozzo Containers running on HP Integrity servers, including the largest, 64-processor HP Integrity Superdome servers. HP's Integrity range of systems runs on the Intel Itanium line of processors.