Hewlett-Packard Co. and start-up Fusion-io announced plans to jointly enable the latter's solid-state memory technology to run across HP server products. The joint effort was announced at the HP Technology Forum & Expo 2008 in Las Vegas. The collaboration will allow a version of Fusion-io's ioDrive NAND product to be plugged into HP server PCI Express slots to add as much as 640GB of flash storage capacity on a single card, said David Flynn, chief technology officer at Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io. He said the capacity will be increased to 1.28TB in 2009. 

Microsoft Corp. plans to release at the end of the month another beta of its Windows HPC Server 2008 and that the final version will ship by year's end. The beta is the first release candidate (RC), which Microsoft says is feature-complete. An RC is a final beta before the code is considered finished .They plan to have one more RC before development is complete.