Rackable Systems, Inc. announced the immediate availability of the C1002 server utilizing the company’s new high density, Eco-Logical™ half-depth chassis design. The system leverages the latest advancements from technology providers AMD and Intel, including the new 45 nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, previously code named “Shanghai.” Designed for cloud computing and other intensive Internet environments, the C1002 builds upon Rackable Systems’ existing density and power efficiency advantages.

Novell announced significant enhancements to its PlateSpin(R) Workload Management solution. Leveraging Novell's strengths in interoperability, the new PlateSpin Recon(TM), PlateSpin Migrate, PlateSpin Protect and PlateSpin Orchestrate(TM) enable customers to profile, migrate, protect and manage server workloads between physical and virtual infrastructures in heterogeneous IT environments.

According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, factory revenue in the worldwide server market declined 5.2% year over year to $12.6 billion in the third quarter of 2008 (3Q08). This is the largest quarterly revenue decline since the fourth quarter of 2002 as technology spending slowed around the world. Server unit shipment growth of 2.8% year over year in 3Q08 represented the slowest increase in server shipments since 4Q06.

Worldwide server shipments for the third quarter of 2008 increased 4.4 per cent over the same quarter last year, while worldwide server revenue for the same period declined 5.4 per cent according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide server revenues totalled $12.7 billion for the quarter, as worldwide servers shipments reached 2.3 million units.

Egenera Inc. announced the general availability of four new Egenera® Processing Blade™ (pBlade™) offerings based on the new 6-Core Intel® Xeon® processor E7400 series (previously codenamed, “Dunnington” by Intel). All of the new 6-Core Intel Xeon processor pBlades are certified to support Microsoft® Windows®, RedHat® Enterprise Linux®, and SUSE® Linux Enterprise operating systems, providing customers with unmatched choice and flexibility.