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Compellent has released a new version of its Storage Center software. The latest release delivers drive-based tiered storage and thin data importing, which can cut the number of drives needed by 80 per cent, the company said.

Alcatel-Lucent's head of enterprise systems, Hubert de Pesquidoux, will take on the role of chief financial officer as part of a management shake-up intended to streamline decision-making. The company has suffered from lackluster performance since its formation from the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies last December.

Worldwide server revenue rose in 2005 driven largely by increased sales of x86-based servers, according to figures released by market research firms Gartner and IDC Research this week.

Hewlett-Packard's board of directors is considering a plan that would redistribute some of the day-to-day responsibilities of its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Carly Fiorina to other HP executives, due in part to the board's displeasure with the company's uneven performance, according to a report published Monday.

One month after a major executive shake up at Sun Microsystems, the dust appears to be settling a bit. The company has now appointed former Chief Technology Officer of Software John Fowler as executive vice president of the company's newly created Network Systems group, a Sun spokeswoman confirmed on Tuesday.

Fresh off Intel's announcement that it would release a Xeon processor with 64-bit extensions technology in the second quarter, three of the four major server vendors pledged their support for the chip Wednesday.

Intel plans to introduce multithreading and 24M-byte on-chip caches to its Itanium 2 processor family, a company executive said in an interview last week.

Continuing to evolve its Adaptive Enterprise vision, Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday unveiled more than three-dozen management software and services products, including its much-anticipated systems management tool previously codenamed Nimbus. The products are aimed at making it easier for businesses to create IT environments that grow and shrink according to business demands.

Bob Schultz took over as Hewlett-Packard's vice president and general manager of network storage solutions in May, and since then several high-profile executives have defected to key competitor EMC. Among those who left are Mark Lewis, head of worldwide marketing and solutions at network storage solutions, and Howard Elias, who was HP's senior vice president of business management and operations for its enterprise systems group.

Oracle aims to pick up the tempo on its grid computing beat this week by unveiling the latest version of its flagship database, an iteration the company believes is primed to enable grids for thousands of low-cost nodes.

Hewlett-Packard reported growth in earnings and revenue Tuesday for its third fiscal quarter but still missed analyst forecasts, prompting Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina to acknowledge that the company "should have done better."