Dell hands over control

Dell wants to rid diskless desktop clients from corporate environments, says PC World.

The company last week announced the On-Demand Desktop Streaming, a server-based software, hardware and services offering, which streams the OS, applications and data to diskless desktop clients over a Gigabit Ethernet network.

Centralising control of desktops on a single server reduces maintenance and allows reinvestment of resources in the core business, said Jeff Clarke, Dell`s senior VP, on a conference call.

New servers introduced by Sun Microsystems, based on its internally-developed eight-core UltraSparc T2 processor, are intended to lead the company to greater success in the infrastructure markets. It promises improved energy efficiency inside high-density systems and more easily enable virtualisation and encryption, says Information Week.

Sun has introduced the Sun Blade T6320, a blade server based on its recently introduced UltraSparc T2, or Niagara 2, processor. Also added were the Sparc Enterprise T5120 and 5220, one and two-unit servers.

The new servers utilise the eight-core UltraSparc T2, which Sun introduced in August. The processor integrates eight separate threads on each core to provide each processor with 64 processing elements. The processor is manufactured using a 65nm manufacturing process.

IBM`s next version of its DB2 data server, code-named Viper 2, is set to slither onto the scene with a new set of data automation and performance enhancements. Company officials believe this will extend its information on-demand initiative and challenge database giant Oracle, says eWeek.

DB2 9.5, which will be available on 31 October, completes the company`s year-long efforts to upgrade its data server portfolio, and comes on the heels of the release last week of Information Management System 10.

Company officials said DB2 9.5 builds on the success of DB2, which they said has propelled IBM to four straight quarters of double-digit growth in its database business.