Swedish telco Telia has dealt a severe blow to Sun Microsystems by scrapping 70 Sun servers and replacing them with a single IBM S/390 mainframe running Linux. Telia will use an S/390 mainframe to ...

IBM has expanded its server lineup with a new mainframe system designed just for Linux that may be aimed, in particular, at higher-end x86 systems. The new system uses IBM’s specialty Linux processor ...

IBM's x360, first server based on Intel's multiprocessor-enabled Xeon chip, code-named Foster, will go on sale in the UK next week. The x360 has several firsts for Intel-based servers that bring ...

Unisys Corp. has released a new mainframe, its most powerful to date, aimed at enterprises that are consolidating servers and moving to Web services. The system includes built-in .Net and Java support ...

IBM is launching what it calls a “skinny mainframe” for cloud computing. The system is built around IBM z14 mainframe technology, and it features a 19-inch industry standard, single-frame case design, ...

IBM’s new Z mainframe server system has the ability to encrypt all data it handles, whether it’s actively being accessed or modified, or merely sitting idle. Better yet, its encryption keys are ...

There’s a new leader in the race for the longest product name of the year: Toronto’s Blockade Systems, which late last month at Microsoft’s Tech Ed conference released ManageID Enterprise Suite for ...

When the next generation of IBM mainframe, the z17, makes its anticipated summer debut, it will be outfitted with multiple technologies aimed at making the Big Iron mainframe the ultimate AI server.

In an age of seemingly disposable servers, there are still organizations out ready and willing to plunk down hundreds of thousands of dollars for good ol’ big iron — enough so over the past year to ...

IBM announced the zEnterprise mainframe server and a new systems design that allows workloads on mainframe, POWER7 and System x servers to share resources and be managed as a single, virtualized ...