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 has said it will offer technology from virtualisation company Parallels...
The system, an $8.4m HP Integrity Superdome with 64 1.5GHz Itanium 2 processors running HP's version of Unix, achieved a score of 1,008,000 transactions per minute on the TPC-C test. HP now holds the top three spots, with third place running a...
In addition, IBM's cost per transaction was slightly less expensive than the HP Superdome machine and considerably better than Big Blue's previous result. IBM countered that HP's Itanium Superdome results have used Windows, which has a much less...
While Microsoft had plumped for Windows XP Reduced Media Edition, the final title for the software will be Windows XP Home Edition N or Windows XP Professional Edition N. Microsoft will resurrect aspects of its Passport scheme in the upcoming...
Companies known for the qualities of their hardware are increasingly looking to software to provide the value-add in the shape of monitoring tools, cross-platform snapshot capabilities and increasing integration with the applications themselves...
The integrator's work on data integrity during the migration also meant that an error by BT over disconnection fees of more than £64,000 was detected and reclaimed. Consumer insurance company Paymentshield has completed a technology upgrade as part...