Hewlett-Packard and IBM tie for first place in the hotly contested Unix server market, pushing aside Unix heavyweight Sun, a study says.

Servers are powerful networked machines for tasks such as handling e-mail, financial transactions, airline reservations and file storage. According to IDC, the overall server market grew 4.4 ...

Sun's Unix servers were still fairly competitive in terms of partner proposals written and the vendor came in first in the average size of those transactions.

To understand why “loops back to me” errors occur, it is useful to think about the way that mail servers go about sending mail. Most email is addressed to user@domain.

IBM will bring the new Power5+ processor to its Unix server line this month, increasing performance and competitive pressures on Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and Intel, the company plans to ...

IBM has strengthened its hand in the Unix business with new systems based on its Power7 processors, including a server for enterprises that scales to 256 cores.

Amid fierce competition in the Unix server market, SGI has released a new 32-processor midrange system that uses the same modular philosophy as the company's top-end system. The Origin 300 uses ...

Ingram Micro and Tech Data will join Arrow and Avnet in distributing IBM's Power processor-based servers as IBM looks to midmarket channel partners as a new engine for growing its high-end server ...