Sun Microsystems has just announced ist new Sun Fire X4150 and X4450 64 bit servers based on Intel's Xeon quad core CPU.

Iomega recently launched a new range of NAS servers in rack and desktop formats. The servers offer capacities of between 640GB and 3TB.

The Java server includes Netbeans and is released under a dual license: Sun CDDL v1.0 and GPL v2.

Novell's business Linux, Suse Linux Enterprise Server, will include an integrated Virtual Machine Interface (VMI) in future.

The Pioneer Linux Explorer Server is targeted at newcomers. The commercial distribution is available free of charge for non-commercial use.

The latest version of Samba, 3.0.26, removes a moderately critical vulnerability that only occurs in combination with Microsoft's Active Directory Service.

HP is offering a rack server and a blade server with Intel's new quad-core processor.

The Xeon 7300er processor family is Intel's first quad-core processor for multiple processor servers. The energy efficiency of the new processors differs depending on the speed with 2.93 GHz requiring 130 Watts compared to 50 Watts for a 1.86 GHz version.