Ashlee Vance

IBM Corp. and Dell Computer Corp. dominated worldwide third-quarter server sales, as they were the only major vendors to gain market share when compared to the same quarter last year, according to the most recent data from Gartner Inc.

Hewlett-Packard Co. continued to rely on its strong printing and imaging division to keep up the health of its overall business in its fourth fiscal quarter, as its PC, server and storage products again suffered from weak demand.

Dell Computer Corp. this week confirmed that it will start shipping servers built with Intel Corp.'s Itanium 2 chips, altering what has been at best a lukewarm stance on the chip.

Intel Corp. Monday upgraded its server processor line with the introduction of new Xeon chips and chipsets that the company hopes will help its push against competing processors from IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co.

When it comes to utility computing, for Hewlett-Packard Co. the future may already be here, but the customers aren't.

Dell Computer Corp. released a new low-end storage product on Monday that completes a revamp of its entire network attached storage (NAS) line.

IBM Corp. won't say a word about its Itanium 2 servers, but a cluster of more than 800 of them at the U.S. National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is speaking for itself.

IBM Corp. announced Monday a new eight-processor server that it believes combines low cost with many of the high-end functions found in larger systems.