Guitar Hero 3 overloads servers

The online play of the Xbox 360`s new Guitar Hero 3 is unstable, and the system has been having a hard time keeping up with the load, according to Ars Technica.

The community site is getting pounded as gamers try to link up their accounts to compare scores across multiple platforms. The site has been up and down since the release, and the account-linking feature seems to be barely working, according to reports.

"We are well aware of these issues, and we our working as fast as we can to fix both problems.

You can still play through GH 3, and rack up as many high scores as possible, and those scores will be displayed when we smooth things out," says the Guitar Hero forum administration.

Solution providers say blade server sales to SME accounts may have finally reached the tipping point, led by Hewlett-Packard`s new BladeSystem c3000 blade chassis and a renewed push by IBM into the mid-market, says CRN.com.

"The product [c3000] is fairly new, but we`ve sold a couple of dozen, which is 100 or so odd servers," said Brady Flaherty, a principal in Altos Technology Group. "The reason they are selling so well is that they don`t have the power requirements that the other blades do. They use a normal three-prong that goes right into the wall."

Solution providers say market share numbers in the future could tip toward HP because of the company`s strength among SME resellers. One value-added reseller, who heard blade pitches from both vendors at Ingram Micro`s Venture Tech Invitational, said he was impressed with IBM`s BladeCenter S.

Solar Host is an environmentally-friendly Web hosting company which aims to reduce carbon emissions through being powered 100% by solar energy, says IC Coventry.

"Green" companies can now choose to have their Web site and e-mails supplied this way to enable them to be eco-friendly and cut energy consumption.

Solar Host`s servers use 60% less energy and generate 50% less heat than that of ordinary servers.