HP Completes Montecito Itanium Rollout into Integrity Servers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Server maker Hewlett-Packard today completes the revamping of its Itanium-based Integrity server line with the rollout of new machines that employ a home-grown chipset and Intel's "Montecito" dual-core Itanium 9000 processors. The Montecito chips were announced in mid-July, and bring the Itanium processor line to more or less performance parity with other RISC chips, thanks in large part to the move to a dual-core architecture. HP has been in sore need of the Montecitos for several years to compete with IBM. READ MORE >

SCO Continues to Struggle Against Linux in Q3
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Server software maker and mobile application development tool wannabe SCO Group yesterday reported its financial results for its fiscal third quarter ended July 31, and once again the company's sales were in decline due to competitive pressures. And once again, the company's top brass singled out Linux as the main culprit that is putting a damper on its revenues. READ MORE >

Intel to Cut 10,500 Jobs to Save $6 Billion
by Alex Woodie

Intel said Tuesday it plans to cut 10,500 jobs, or 10 percent of its workforce, by the middle of next year as part of a restructuring plan to trim $6 billion in costs over the next three years. The move is expected to boost Intel's profitability as it continues its battle with rival chip maker AMD to retain supremacy in the X64 and X86 market. READ MORE >

Companies Continue to Consume Massive Amounts of Storage
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

For a long time, the disk storage array market has been growing considerably faster than the server market that it is loosely coupled to, and that continues to be the case. While the server market has been showing signs of fatigue in recent quarters, not so the disk storage market. READ MORE >