The new servers are the biggest iron in IBM’s “Squadron” family of servers using the Power5 processor, a chip that has two processing engines, or cores, on each slice of silicon. The p5-590 has 16 ...

IBM on Monday unveiled four new POWER7 server models which it said could lead to a consolidation of smaller servers into fewer larger ones while cutting data center energy costs. The Unix server ...

The company’s 16-processor System p5-590 and 32-processor p5-595 will ship with the 2.3GHz Power5+ beginning Aug. 11, the company plans to announce Tuesday. The upgrade wrings about 30 percent more ...

IBM has strengthened its hand in the Unix business with new systems based on its Power7 processors, including a server for large enterprises that scales to 256 cores. The Power 795 is IBM’s biggest ...

IBM has named Val Rahmani, a 20-year IBM veteran, to lead its reinvigorated Unix server division at a key moment, as Big Blue stands to gain over rivals Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems. Rahmani, ...

IBM Corp. has added new four-core processing capability to the low end of its System p Unix servers. On Wednesday, the company unveiled a new quad-core system, the System p5 505Q Express which IBM is ...

IBM is beefing up both its System p and Power-based Unix systems and its i Servers, once dubbed AS/400. Now, Linux-based binaries created for x86-based PC environments will be able to run unmodified ...

They also come at a time when the third most important Unix processor line, Sun Microsystems' SPARC, is in a state of flux thanks to the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. Together, these are starting to ...