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Intel&#39;s Itanium gains ground as three vendors roll out new servers based on the processor. By Darrell Dunn. Systems based on Intel&#39;s Itanium processor this week will gain ground in the high-performance server
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Ziff Davis - The company this week will unveil more programs and technologies designed to ease users of its high-end servers onto its Integrity line, which uses Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor.
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Unisys announced new servers and a suite of infrastructure management software Tuesday that are aimed at giving it a bigger role to play in customers&#39; datacenters, where it will compete more directly with Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems.The new hardware includes Unisys&#39; first blade servers, the ES5000 family, due next month, and new and upgraded ES3000 midrange servers based on quad-core Intel Xeon processors. The company has also refreshed and rebranded some datacenter management software that it launched early last year.The products continue a turnaround strategy that Unisys began in 2005. A focus on high-end servers, outsourcing and systems integration had led to financial losses, and Unisys devised a restructuring plan to enter faster-growing markets including open-source software, security and infrastructure management.The strategy leans heavily on partners. The blade servers will be supplied by another, unnamed server vendor and tagged with the Unisys brand, while the infrastructure software includes third-party products from Enigmatic and Scalent Systems.The strategy is to lead with services offerings to help customers build what Unisys calls a &quot;real-time infrastructure&quot; -- one where IT adapts quickly to business needs -- and to supplement those the hardware and software products, said Rich Marcello, president of Unisys&#39; systems and technology group.&quot;This isn&#39;t just a product sell. The real-time infrastructure is relatively complicated to implement so you need a services-led strategy,&quot; he said. &quot;Many of our competitors will talk about doing RTI but what they are doing is trying to sell you a complete stack.&quot;Unisys&#39; product line-up is not greatly different from that of Sun, HP and others. But its strategy differs in that it aims to capture clients through consulting and service engagements and then bring in the products they need for a project, including gear from other vendors, said Jean Bozman [cq], a research vice president with IDC.&quot;They&#39;re not saying their value is to deliver everything with a Unisys label. Their value is to leverage their experience with customer engagements to bring products together and make sure they all work as part of an overall solution,&quot; Bozman said.The new infrastructure management suite piggy-backs on the trend of helping customers align their IT infrastructures to business requirements. This includes using virtualization and systems management software to reallocate computing resources to meet changing workloads.Called the Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite it includes three parts: uAdapt, for shifting workloads between servers to get better rates of utilization; uOrchestrate, for automating processes and meeting service-level agreements; and uChargeback, which lets big companies measure server usage and charge individual departments for computing services they use, Marcello said.Unisys announced some infrastructure management software early last year, including a home-grown product called Enterprise Orchestration. That product has been &quot;superseded&quot; by uOrchestrate, which is based on software from Enigmatic. UChargeback is a rebranded version of last year&#39;s Real Time Chargeback, and uAdapt is a new offering based on software from Scalent Systems.The three products work with any hardware platform running Windows, Linux, or Unix, and all are certified to run VMware&#39;s virtualization technology. UAdapt and uOrchestrate also work with Citrix Systems&#39; Xen virtualization technology, and uChargeback will be certified for Xen shortly, a Unisys spokesman said.The blade servers will come with &quot;flexible I/O configuration options and advanced local and remote management interfaces,&quot; Unisys said. The company also plans to expand its high-end ES7000 line with a quad core, eight-processor server due in the second quarter. Later this year it will introduce brand new ES7000 models from a partnership with Japan&#39;s NEC.&#160;
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Hewlett-Packard has announced that it would add Cisco's double data rate InfiniBand-based server fabric switches to HP's Unified Cluster Portfolio, and that HP BladeSystem c-Class servers are now supported with Cisco's InfiniBand host driver software.
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0. Introduction 1. SysAdmin of the Year Contest 2. Statistics  This SF.net update brought to you by HP --------------------------------------------------------- Open source and Linux from HP From eight consecutive years of Linux market leadership to countless community outreach programs, HP has proven solutions you can value, on a next generation, highly-efficient BladeSystem platform ideal for Linux, with the approach, experience, and customer commitment you can trust. http://www.linux.com/sponsor_solutions/hpos ---------------------------------------------------------  Hello, and welcome to this month's edition.  Last month, we announced the winners of the 2007 Community Choice Awards during our party at OSCON.  There were some surprises, lots of great winners, and a good time was certainly had by all.  For information about the winning projects, visit our Community Hub at http://sourceforge.net/community and click on the CCA logo.  The beta of our Marketplace continues to go well.  Our beta participants have been creating quality listings to provide our users with access to the experts they need...and, in the process, our design decisions are being validated one-by-one.  Keep a close watch on this new tool, it promises to be a hotspot of engineering activity for us over the next few months.  We will need some help, though!  We're looking for engineering talent to make all the complex things simple around here.  If you're in the bay area and want to join us, email jobs@corp.sourceforge.com  Thanks for reading!  The SourceForge.net Crew    SysAdmin of the Year Contest ----------------------------  Do have know a SysAdmin who goes beyond the call of duty? If so, nominate them as SysAdmin of the Year 2007.  They can win great prizes (Macbook Pro, iPhone, Splunk License), including the knowledge that you care.   The first 2500 SysAdmins nominated get a free t-shirt.  http://www.sysadminoftheyear.com    Statistics and Top Projects ---------------------------  Number of Projects: 155,959 Number of Registered Users: 1,662,751   Daily Stats for 20 August, 2007:  SF.net: 4,026,722 pages served Open Source Files downloaded in 24 hour period: 2,014,157  ---------------------------------------------------------  Top 25 Projects:   1. Azureus https://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client.  2. phpMyAdmin https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.  3. Notepad++ https://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus Notepad++ is a generic source code editor (it tries to be anyway) and Notepad replacement written in C++ with the win32 API. The aim of Notepad++ is to offer a slim and efficient binary with a totally customizable GUI.  4. OpenProj - Project Management https://sourceforge.net/projects/openproj OpenProj by Projity is a desktop replacement of Microsoft Project. OpenProj has equivalent functionality, a familiar user interface and even opens existing MSProject files. OpenProj is interoperable with Project, with a Gantt Chart and PERT chart etc.  5. ZK - Simply Ajax and Mobile https://sourceforge.net/projects/zk1 ZK is Ajax framework enriching Web apps with little programming. With event-driven and markup languages, development is as simple as programming desktops and authoring HTML/XUL pages. ZK supports scripting lang including Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy...  6. dimdim meeting server https://sourceforge.net/projects/dimdim Dimdim is an open source web meeting product with features like Application, Desktop and Presentation sharing with A/V streaming and chat. No attendee installation - all features are available through a web browser. Dimdim can be integrated with Moodle.  7. ADempiere Bazaar https://sourceforge.net/projects/adempiere Adempiere is an ERP Bazaar for Open Source Developers that contribute improvements of Compiere, CRM, Shopfloor, POS, Helpdesk, Financials Accounting, Supply Chain, Knowledge and Business apps in an open and unabated fashion. Focus is on the Community.  8. Zenoss Core - Enterprise IT Monitoring https://sourceforge.net/projects/zenoss Zenoss Core is an enterprise network and systems management application written in Python/Zope. 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FreeMind https://sourceforge.net/projects/freemind A mind mapper, and at the same time an easy-to-operate hierarchical editor with strong emphasis on folding. These two are not really two different things, just two different descriptions of a single application. Often used for knowledge and content mgmt.  20. Arianne RPG https://sourceforge.net/projects/arianne Arianne is a multiplayer online engine to develop turn based and real time games providing a simple way of creating the game server rules and clients like Stendhal. Marauroa, our server, uses Java and MySQL for hosting hundreds of players on a solo host.  21. OrangeHRM - Human Resource Management https://sourceforge.net/projects/orangehrm OrangeHRM developed by OrangeHRM Inc is an Open Source HR Information Systems(HRIS) that assists you in managing company's human resources. Through scalable modular architecture it covers main areas of Personnel Management/HRM such as PIM, ESS & Leave.  22. Gallery https://sourceforge.net/projects/gallery A slick, intuitive web based photo gallery. Gallery is easy to install, configure and use. Gallery photo management includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, and more. Authenticated users and privileged albums make this great for communities.  23. Pidgin https://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin Pidgin is a GTK+ instant messaging application for Windows and Unix. It supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE and more. See http://pidgin.im/about.php for more information.  24. XBMC (Xbox Media Center) https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmc XBMC (Xbox Media Center) is a free multimedia player jukebox for Microsoft Xbox game console, it is capable of playing back almost all known video, audio and picture formats from the Xbox harddrive, DVD-ROM drive, a local-network, and even the internet.  25. 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HP World Free Alpha upgrades to stem defections
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Unisys, the maker of high-end servers, has joined the Red Hat Partner Community, strengthening its ties to the Linux vendor. Unisys, formerly a Windows-only shop, began offering its ES7000 servers
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Rough going for the Itanic in Q3 The curse of the Itanic continued to haunt HP in the third quarter. The server maker suffered through the period as the only Tier 1 unable to post a significant uptick in sales. Most of HP's woes appear to have resulted from flagging high-end server sales, as some customers side with Itanium, while others move to IBM and Sun Microsystems.â¦
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HP and Intel have confirmed earlier reports that located a massive migration of HP Itanium boat people making their way to Intel. True to speculation, Intel has agreed to hire hundreds of HP&#39;s Itanium engineers working at a Ft.
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It was obvious that the one-two punch of Opteron and then Intel&#39;s adoption of x86-64 would spell trouble for Itanium, and now HP, the (for all intents and purposes) originator of IA-64, has axed its Itanium 2 workstation line so that they can focus on
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PC Magazine - The company is launching a blade server with embedded virtualization software and which can use either Intel's Xeon or Itanium processors.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle will soon begin certification of its database software to run on Itanium 2 computing processor platforms. Oracle joined with officials of the Itanium Solutions Alliance (ISA) in making the announcement Monday at the first ever Itanium Solutions Summit in San Francisco. The move is a further endorsement by Oracle of the beleaguered Itanium processor family which has been slow to gain traction in the server marketplace, though it hasÂ shown some recent momentum. "This seems like an 'attaboy' announcement," said industry analyst Charles King. The Itanium microprocessor family was developed by Intel, of Santa Clara, California, and Hewlett-Packard, of Palo Alto, California, but even with the backing of these tech industry giants, relatively few software programs were initially available to run on Itanium. In announcing Oracle's support, Alliance members said Monday there are now 10,000 software applications from 2,000 independent software vendors certified on the Itanium 2 dual-core processor, code-named "Montecito," the latest iteration of Itanium introduced this summer. When ISA was founded in September 2005, it counted only 5,000 Itanium-compatible applications. Oracle, of Redwood Shores, California, is "reiterating" its support of Itanium with Monday's announcement, said Oracle spokesman Eloy Ontiveros, planning to certify the next major releases of its Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware products across various operating systems. Oracle's decision is "in keeping with our longstanding tradition of presenting customers with many choices in deployment platforms," said Prem Kumar, vice president of the Oracle's Server Technologies division. Of Oracle's support of Itanium, industry analyst Joe Clabby said, "They kind of have to." Oracle is one of the largest of HP's technology partners and HP is the biggest supporter of Itanium, said Clabby, president of Clabby Analytics of Yarmouth, Maine, citing industry reports that as many as 80 percent of the Itanium servers on the market are HP-branded servers. Oracle has made several announcements in recent years about software applications that run on Itanium-powered servers and this is just the latest effort to promote Itanium, said King, president of Pund-IT Research, of Hayward, California. "Now that Montecito has hit the market, Itanium is gaining success among HP users," King said. But he still doesn't see Itanium taking business from its main processor competitors, the Power architecture from IBM Corp., of Armonk, New York, or the Sparc from Sun Microsystems, of Santa Clara, California. However, ISA cited IDC Research data showing Itanium building momentum. Sales of Itanium-based systems generated $740 million in revenue in the second quarter, up 36.4 percent from the year ago quarter. IDC reported in February that the market for Itanium servers may reach $6.6 billion by 2009, up from $2.4 billion in 2005. Other server makers supporting Itanium 2 include Unisys, of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, FujitsuÂ of Japan, and Silicon Graphics, of Mountain View, California.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Intel has introduced a third-generation Itanium 2 into the market, but Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has noted that its Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition will not run on servers with the chip.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-PackardÂ introduced an entry-level rack server in India on Thursday, part of its strategy to design lower-cost servers specifically for Asian countries. Asia has high growth markets like China and India, but the needs and usage models of customers there are different from those elsewhere in the world, Paul Miller, HPâs vice president of marketing for Industry Standard Servers (ISS) and BladeSystems, told reporters in Bangalore on Thursday. A large proportion of customers in Asia, including smaller businesses, don't need all the features included with HP servers sold in other regions, said Tony Parkinson, HPâs vice president and general manager for ISS in the Asia Pacific. âCustomers in Asia want a âgood enoughâ product which is reliable, good quality, good brand, and not very expensiveâ, he said. The new server, the ProLiant DL180, is based on Dual Core and Quad-Core Xeon processors from Intel and priced from 100,000 Indian rupees, or about $2,500. HP said the servers will help Asian businesses to migrate from tower servers to rack servers, by offering the efficiency of a rack server and the economics of a tower server. Users in Asia often stuff tower servers into racks because of space constraints, but have not migrated to rack servers because of their higher costs, Miller said. Some of the features and components, included as standard on similar HP rack servers, are offered as options on the DL180 to drive down costs, said Kevin Van Mondfrans, HPâs manager of product marketing for ISS. For example, while Asian customers want basic management capabilities, they don't see a need for the more sophisticated management software typically offered on these servers, he said. Usage models also differ in Asia, according to HP. The DL180 is likely to be used as a standalone storage server in Asia, while customers in the U.S. tend to use such systems as part of a storage area network (SAN), Parkinson said. The products for Asia are being designed at an HP ProLiant design center in Taiwan. Asia is the only region the company is designing special products for, Miller said. However, some of the products for Asia may be offered later in other developing markets, such as Latin America and Russia, he said. The ProLiant ML115, introduced in March as a tower server at the cost of a desktop, was designed for Asia but eventually introduced in other parts of the world. HP will offer customers in Asia a mix of Asia-specific products and standard products, as some Asian customers, such as large enterprises, want the full-featured products, Parkinson said. He did not say how many more servers HP is designing exclusively for the region.
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Open HPI is an open source implementation of the SA Forum's Hardware Platform Interface (HPI). HPI provides an abstracted interface to managing computer hardware, typically for chassis and rack based servers.   http://openhpi.org
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InfoWorld - Hewlett-Packard&#160;is introducing a long-awaited upgrade to its Unix operating system&#160;and launching new, affordable Integrity servers in a direct challenge to rival products from IBM and Sun Microsystems.