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Sun, HP: High fives for Solaris on ProLiant

Hewlett Packard and Sun did their best to put everyone on Wednesday's conference call to sleep. (Do these guys try to sound like Lurch from the Addams Family when they run through their prepared remarks? Just asking.) Still, the news will be of especial interest if you are either a Solaris or ProLiant customer.

The deal gives HP the right to distribute software for Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System on the HP ProLiant server and blade system platforms. HP also will shoulder responsibility for technical support. It's a one-stop shop arrangement that the companies hope will help … Read more

Seagate gives high-end Savvio HDD a speed boost

Among hard drives for general consumers, Western Digital's Rapter Velocity drives have been well accepted to be the fastest. It's a different story in the enterprise market.

On Monday, Seagate introduced its next generation of the Savvio HDD, called Savvio 15k.2, that, according to Seagate, is the world's fastest, greenest hard drive.

While the "greenest" notion is hard to determine, the new hard drive indeed has impressive specs. With the same form factor as a regular 2.5-inch laptop hard drive, the Savvio 15k.2 spins at 15,000rpm--high-end consumer HDDs generally spin at … Read more

HP readying AMD quad-core 'Barcelona' servers

Hewlett-Packard has committed to Advanced Micro Devices' quad-core Opteron "Barcelona" processors in its Proliant DL585 servers, according to company documents.

This comes as AMD is preparing to send samples of its "B3" quad-core Opteron processor to customers. The B3 stepping (or version) fixes, in silicon, a rarely occurring glitch in the Barcelona chip, referred to as the TLB bug. The bug has delayed shipment of quad-core chips to top-tier U.S. server vendors, giving Intel a leg-up in the high-end server market.

Currently, Proliant DL585 G2 servers use dual-core Opteron processors. But HP documentation updated last … Read more