Jeff Burt

Riverbed Technology is expanding its Whitewater cloud storage portfolio to enable enterprises to handle larger backup data workloads with greater scalability and management capabilities. Riverbed on Sept. 10 unveiled its Whitewater 3010 cloud storage gateway appliance, which offers four times the disk storage capacity-both on–premise and in the cloud-and twice the memory of the company’s […]

The outage at GoDaddy that took millions of Websites offline was caused by network issues within the Website hosting giant’s internal infrastructure and not a cyber-attack, according to the company’s top executive. In a note on the site Sept. 11, GoDaddy Interim CEO Scott Wagner said the causes of the six-hour outage the day before […]

The uncertain global economy in general-and Europe in particular-is helping tamp down IT spending worldwide this year, though how hard IT spending will be hit depends on who’s doing the calculating. According to the analysts at IDC, when measured in terms of constant currency, IT spending worldwide should increase 6 percent over 2011, to $2.1 […]

Polycom officials are rolling out services designed to make it easier for businesses to adopt and deploy video collaboration solutions based on the vendor’s RealPresence video conferencing platform. Polycom’s Adoption Services are designed to help businesses adopt the video technologies, encourage employees to embrace them and then track how employees are using the solutions and […]

Intel, which already houses the memory controller and graphics capabilities on its processors, within the next few years will also integrate the compute fabric controller on its server chips, a move that officials say will speed up performance, improve scalability and enhance energy efficiency in data centers. An integrated converged fabric controller will eventually be […]

Intel executives are lowering their financial forecast for the third quarter, citing global economic conditions that are impacting the supply chain, PC sales and slowing demand in emerging markets. In a brief note Sept. 7, the officials said that third-quarter revenue will come in at about $13.2 billion, a drop from the $13.8 billion to […]

Intel and Hewlett-Packard are working together to build a highly energy-efficient supercomputer that will include the chip maker’s upcoming Xeon Phi coprocessors and a design that uses warm water to cool the servers. The supercomputer, announced Sept. 5, will be used by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for research into numerous […]

Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard lost share in the competitive global Ethernet switch market in the second quarter, though the top two vendors did see revenue grow, according to market research firm Infonetics Research. Juniper Networks also saw revenue increase, and Dell-a relative newcomer to the enterprise networking space-had revenue grow in the double-digit percentage points […]

The Microsoft-Intel alliance, which long dominated the PC era, is continuing to see its influence wane with the rise of smartphones and tablets, and the pressure to gain ground in the mobile device market is causing fractures in the once tight partnership, according to analysts. Hundreds of millions of PCs will continue to be sold […]

Oracle will continue developing database and other enterprise software for Intel’s Itanium processor platform in the wake of its lengthy court battle with one-time partner Hewlett-Packard. Oracle executives announced their decision in a statement Sept. 4, a month after a California judge ordered that the software giant continue porting its products so that they will […]

Intel officials have ended a yearlong test in which they submerged servers in mineral oil as a way to keep the systems cool, and they reportedly are happy with the results. The giant chip maker immersed the servers in the mineral oil developed by a company called Green Revolution Cooling, whose CarnoJet System is designed […]

ARM Holdings, whose chip designs can be found in more than 90 percent of smartphones worldwide, is scaling back its employee-recruitment efforts as worries mount about a continued slowdown in consumer purchases of computing devices. ARM CEO Warren East, in a Sept. 2 interview with the Financial Times, said the company expects that the trend […]