SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 5, 2007: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today previewed the first and only four-socket, 2U quad-core system on the market from a tier-one vendor, powered by the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 7300 series that Intel announced separately today. At the processor launch in San Francisco, Intel also endorsed the Solaris Operating System (OS) as the only mission-critical UNIX operating system for the Intel Xeon processor, recommending that OEMs and systems builders show support for the Solaris OS on Xeon-based platforms.

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DAYTON, Ohio - Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR), announced the availability of its Teradata 5500 Server, which uses approximately 75 percent less energy and coexists with multiple generations of Teradata servers thereby protecting the technology investment of customers. The Teradata 5500 Server supports Teradata® Warehouse 8.2, a suite of software, hardware and professional consulting services that helps businesses make smarter, more competitive decisions.

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HOUSTON - The Planet, now the world’s largest privately held dedicated hosting company, today announced the launch of Ready-To-Go servers, providing customers with the ability to bring new servers online in under an hour. With Ready-To-Go servers, customers can easily add new servers to keep pace with unexpected demand. The new offering now becomes a regular solution in the company’s product portfolio.

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MAYNARD, Mass., July 16, 2007 – Stratus Technologies, Inc. today announced the new Stratus® ftServer® 2500 and ftServer 4400 systems, both dual-core continuously available servers ideal for supporting critical applications in space-constrained data centers, remote offices and light-out computing environments. Together with the previously announced 2-socket quad-core ftServer 6200 system March 2007), the ftServer 2500 and 4400 systems represent a new generation of industry-standard Stratus servers that deliver superior processing power, and greater I/O and memory capacity than ever before. Dual-core Xeon-based 1-socket 2500 and 1- or 2-socket 4400 models allow for wide-ranging configurability, workload support and IT budgets.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - NEC Corporation of America (NEC) today announced the general availability of NEC’s new Fault Tolerant (ft) Series servers. Launched in March 2006, the NEC Express5800/320Fc-MR Series server features up to two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors 5300 Series. In addition, NEC Corporation of America is also announcing the NEC Express5800/320Fc-LR Series server with one- or two-socket Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processors 5100 Series. The NEC Express5800/320Fc is the first product developed jointly by NEC Corporation and Stratus Technologies, Inc. as a result of their collaboration agreement signed November 2005.

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One of the buzz making the rounds in server news is the launch of Fujitsu’s PRIMERGY TX120. It is tauted to be the server with the lowest carbon footprint in the market.

The funny thing is, being Malaysian, I know for a fact that the TX120 was already available in Malaysia since April 2007! Does this mean that Malaysia has been a testing ground for the global release of this fine server?

According to Fujitsu, the server has:

• The lowest energy use, consuming 40 per cent less energy than conventional tower servers. Specifically, FSC claims power consumption of 143W with the Xeon option - less when fitted with a Celeron CPU. The company therefore claims a “world-leading carbon footprint” along with lower environmental impact, and power consumption and financial savings.
• The smallest size at one-third the size of standard tower servers: it measures 99mm wide by 340mm high by 399mm deep.
• The lowest noise levels — the quietest server in its class, reckons FSC — with noise emissions 50 per cent lower than standard tower servers. This is particularly important for servers that could share space with staff. It produces 28dB while idling and 31dB in operation.

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Tokyo, July 9, 2007 - NEC Corporation today announced the launch of a new NEC Express5800/ft series fault-tolerant server featuring up to two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processors. The latest ft series model, 320Fc-MR, is the first server product designed under the joint development agreement signed by NEC and Massachusetts-based Stratus Technologies, Inc. in November 2005.

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New York, NY June 19, 2007 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced new benchmark performance results from its Sun Fire x4600 server, the industry’s only 8-socket x86-based server from a tier-one server vendor. The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) benchmark test measured the performance of the Sun Fire x4600 servers running Wombat Financial software on the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). Handling the heaviest possible data load a client site could demand, the server achieved an exceptionally rapid processing speed - processing 359,000 messages per second, while reducing latency to just 511 µsec.

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