Data Center Security, Data Storage & Management: News, Tips, Expert Advice

Products of the Year 2008:

Servers

The top winners in this category are:

Gold Award:

HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem

Hewlett Packard Co.'s fault-tolerant Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem takes home the Gold for best server in 2008. HP has lowered the pricing bar for entry into fault-tolerance computing with the NB5000c, and analysts have commented that HP's...

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Silver Award:

IBM z10 Business Class mainframe

IBM's z10 Business class mainframe is 40% faster and offers 50% more capacity than its z9 predecessor, making it a "great big consolidation server," the SearchDataCenter.com product of the year award judges reported. A great Linux server at a...

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Bronze Award:

The SPARC Enterprise T5440 server from Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu

Sun Microsystems Inc.'s SPARC Enterprise T5440 server packs enough memory and CPU power to deliver up to four times higher performance per watt at about one-fifth of competitive servers, which is part of the reason our judges give it the Bronze...

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