Before Intel's announcement, AMAX announces the arrival of the highly anticipated next generation 45nm quad-core Intel Xeon server solutions, based on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series, codename: Nehalem, and featuring the groundbreaking technology that offers unmatched performance capabilities.

Blade.org, an open industry consortium focused on BladeCenter®-based solutions, today announced the results of an Internet-based survey on virtualization adoption. Results recorded during 4Q 2008 and 1Q 2009 show both large enterprises, organizations with IT budgets over $1 million annually, and SMBs have moved rapidly to adopt virtualization technologies using blade servers as their preferred hardware platform.

Companies can immediately begin reducing their personal computer energy consumption by up to 60 percent per computer and achieve significant savings with a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution offered by Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS).

The PC energy management and monitoring service enables companies to reduce costs by avoiding the expense of installing and maintaining on-site software, as well as align their energy consumption with other corporate green initiatives such as recycling and telecommuting.

Dell today debuted a breakthrough portfolio of products and services specifically designed to help businesses become more efficient throughout the IT lifecycle and maximize their most valuable resources: people, time and money. The combination of innovative software and services with next-generation storage and server products, offers customers technology solutions specifically designed to cut costs and increase efficiency.

Sun Microsystems showcased the Sun Open Cloud Platform, the company's open cloud computing infrastructure, powered by industry-leading software technologies from Sun, including Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and Open Storage. Signaling a massive opportunity to open the world's nascent cloud market, Sun also outlined that a core element of its strategy is to offer public clouds and previewed plans to launch the Sun Cloud, its first public cloud service targeted at developers, student and startups.