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Seagate boasts new family of hard drives

Seagate claims that its all new family of hard drives offers the lowest power consumption and record-setting for any tier-two enterprise applications.

The Constellation family, as it's called, includes two models: the 2.5-inch Constellation and the 3.5-inch Constellation ES. Both drives also include PowerChoice from Seagate, which decreases power consumption by up to 54 percent, arguably the highest in the industry.

According to Seagate, the PowerChoice technology is designed to deliver the power-reduction savings without sacrificing performance and data integrity. In addition, the Constellation family features enterprise-grade reliability and is rated at a full 1.2 million … Read more

Sun beats Wall Street's revenue, earnings forecast

Updated at 2:36 p.m. PST with analysts comments and comments from Sun's earnings call.

Sun Microsystems announced Tuesday fiscal second-quarter revenue fell nearly 11 percent, but the hardware maker's revenue and earnings came in stronger than Wall Street's expectations.

Shares of Sun rose as high as 9.7 percent to $4.38 a share in after-hours trading.

The company generated $3.22 billion in revenue during its fiscal second quarter, down 11 percent over the comparable period last year but up 7.7 percent sequentially. Analysts had expected the company to generate $3.16 billion … Read more

Point (Cisco), counterpoint (HP)

Recently the tech industry has been all a buzz about Cisco entering the server market. What would this mean to Cisco's relationship with large server vendors?

It didn't take long to get an answer. Monday, Hewlett-Packard took another step toward enterprise networking when it announced a new family of data center switches and a new alliance program called the ProCurve Open Network Ecosystem (ONE) with partners like Avaya, F5 Networks, McAfee, and Riverbed. This activity follows HP's wireless acquisition (Colubris) and its reorganization to place ProCurve within its Technology Solutions Group of other enterprise products.

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Apache recovers while Microsoft IIS slides

Last year, it seemed that Microsoft was making great gains on the Apache Web server, with Apache dropping from its high of 70 percent of the Web server market to 50 percent.

Since then, however, Apache's market share seems to have stabilized while Microsoft's IIS has been losing share at a steady clip, according to Netcraft market share data and OStatic's analysis thereof.

There are a number of factors for Microsoft's losses, including "more than 2 million blogging sites running on Microsoft-IIS Web sites expir(ing) from the (Netcraft) survey," but the basic trend … Read more

Microsoft elevates server unit, promotes Muglia

Microsoft started off its new-year executive shuffling by promoting longtime Server and Tools unit head Bob Muglia to president, a title he shares with entertainment boss Robbie Bach and business software chief Stephen Elop.

It's a title elevation for Muglia, whose responsibilities remain the same. It also reflects the growing importance of the server unit, which accounted for $13 billion in revenue in the most recent fiscal year, now making up fully a fifth of Microsoft's total sales.

"The core of our success at Microsoft has always been great people--people who combine talent, drive, vision, customer focus, … Read more

Cloud server of tomorrow will look little like full-feature server of today

If you have an interest in the architectures that may very well come to dominate the world's most sophisticated data centers, you should take some time to check out an article in EETimes, entitled "Server makers get Goooogled."

The article, by Rick Merrit, describes new technologies being introduced by Rackable and other companies that are strongly influenced by Google's custom server designs over the last several years.

We're talking cool stuff here. As the article notes:… Read more

HP upgrading Home Server lineup, Apple may follow suit

Hewlett-Packard announced Monday that it is upgrading its MediaSmart server lineup with new, more powerful hardware and, more importantly, with software support for Macs and improved over-the-Net streaming of users' media files. (A software update will allow users of existing MediaSmart boxes to access some of the new features.) Also Monday, 9to5Mac speculated that one of the Macworld announcements in January will be an expanded Time Capsule product with similar features.

Currently, HP's MediaSmart servers, running Microsoft's Windows Home Server software, cannot serve as backup platforms for Macs running the Time Machine backup software, and data stored on … Read more

Microsoft probing SQL Server vulnerability

Microsoft is investigating reports of a flaw that could allow someone to remotely execute code on a system running certain versions of SQL Server.

"Microsoft is aware that exploit code has been published on the Internet for the vulnerability addressed by this advisory," the company wrote in a security advisory published on Monday. "Our investigation of this exploit code has verified that it does not affect systems that have had the workarounds listed below applied. Currently, Microsoft is not aware of active attacks that use this exploit code or of customer impact at this time."

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Google dominates ad server market, study shows

It will surprise no one that Google accounts for a lion's share of the ad server market. However, it may come as a shock that Microsoft holds only the equivalent of a lion's paw.

Attributor, a content-tracking company, analyzed ad server calls across 75 million domains in October. According to the data Attributor released this week, Google--through DoubleClick and AdSense--accounts for 56.5 percent market share.

Meanwhile, Microsoft's equivalent figure hovers at 3.8 percent. Yahoo came in behind Google with 9.7 percent. If Microsoft and Yahoo ever end up combining forces, they still wouldn't … Read more