Sunday, February 5th, 2012 2:57 pm

Server shipments: Revenue for IBM, Dell up, HP down, Oracle flat

Stamford (ip-192.com): Worldwide server shipments in the third quarter of 2011 grew 7.2 percent, compared to the same period in 2010, while revenue increased 5.2 percent year-on-year. “The third quarter of 2011 produced growth on a global level but there was some significant variation in growth by region,” said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at [...]

Stampede: Supercomputer for open science research

Austin (ip-192.com): The open science community in the U.S. will soon be able to utilize a new world-class supercomputer with comprehensive computing and visualization capabilities. The new system called "Stampede" will be built by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in partnership with Dell and Intel to support scientists in addressing the most complex scientific [...]

Dell: Up to 12 million faulty PCs sold

Round Rock (ip-192.com): Dell Inc. has been accused of selling millions of faulty computers to large corporations including Wal-Mart, Wells Fargo, and the Mayo Clinic, and an unknown number of small businesses, the New York Times reports. Dell employees did know that the machines did have a high potential to fail, the paper reports, citing [...]

Dell pitches Ubuntu over Windows

Round Rock (ip-192.com): Dell says that users should buy more computers running Ubuntu Linux. The Round Rock, Texas based information technology company says on Dell’s Ubuntu website that the Debian based Linux distribution is safer than Microsoft Windows. "The vast majority of viruses and spyware written by hackers are not designed to target and attack [...]