Fujitsu is kicking off a big push into the U.S. computer market with a high-end server intended to take on IBM and Hewlett-Packard in their home turf.
And, in its lower-end Intel-based server market, Compaq is facing stiffer competition, not least from Dell.
Sun Microsystems, which specialises in high-end server computers, is adding much more software to its product mix.
The company has also struggled broadening the base for its Itanium high-end server chip (See "Intel Kicks Off Overhaul").
Now Intel is combining its cost advantage over AMD and embrace of cooler chips to take back the high-end server business.
However, since the launch of its Bulldozer architecture, AMD has seen a steady increase in demand for its high-end server processors.
With its low-end workstation and server markets coming under attack from economy-class machines using off-the-shelf Intel chips and Microsoft NT software, Palo Alto, Calif.
More important, says Carr, Sun's other motive may be inspiring an industry shift--one that could mean more high-end server sales and reverse a growing trend toward sales of cheaper Windows and Linux servers.
The superior performance and high-reliability Spinpoint F4 is engineered for high-end computing in PCs, Macs, high-end workstations and server applications.
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And so in the case of the set-top box you typically would store the video back on the server, either the Media Center server in the home, or the your video provider server back at the head-end.
In the past Intel has first put its newest process technology to work in pricey server processors and chips for high-end gaming machines.
"Sharing the workload across client and server offers automotive manufacturers and end-users the best of both worlds, " said Andy Gryc, automotive product marketing manager, QNX Software Systems.
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Netflix is also hitting the rumor mill with reports of 1.5TB of server space being staked out at the high-end Isilon hosting service.
There are different level of security needs and on-board localized security capabilities and server end security have been improving rapidly because of the need to support iOS and Android.
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Though it can be used as a phone, the BlackBerry's power lies in its ability to push e-mail automatically from the company server to the end user.
"We think all the Web pages need to be generated from an application server that end users can access and that is tied to back-end databases, " says Burson, who believes NetWare 5.1 will address this issue.
Some of the server categories include: SPARC enterprise servers, CoolThread servers, x64 servers and high-end servers.
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The chip is designed for high-end servers running the Unix operating system and has been launched with a new server designed around it.
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