Aus servers grow

According to IDC, the Australian server market achieved record growth last year and cracked the US$1 billion mark, says ARN.

The analyst group said the 17% spending increase represented the strongest server growth since 1996.

While unit shipments only increased by 2%, analyst Matthew Oostveen said machines were more richly configured than what they had been in previous years. He attributed this to virtualisation take-up.

Microsoft is working on application virtualisation technology for the server, states InfoWorld.

The capabilities would be similar to the application virtualisation capabilities available in the client side via Microsoft Application Virtualisation (formerly SoftGrid).

SoftGrid, which Microsoft acquired when it bought Softricity in May 2006, lets users package applications into "containers", store them on a server where they can be centrally managed, and then stream those containers to desktops, devices or shared PCs.

Accelrys released the SciTegic Enterprise Server 7.0, reports Ad-hoc-news.

Key features of the new release, which is the next generation of the Pipeline Pilot platform, include a service-oriented architecture environment, enterprise collaborative tools, interactive application building, and workflow parallelisation.

Accelrys demonstrated the SciTegic Enterprise Server 7.0 at the BioIT World Conference in April in Boston.