Jeff Burt

Apple€™s iPad will grow its share of the booming tablet market over its Android-based rivals this year, thanks in large part to new features introduced with the iPad 3 and the company€™s decision to reduce the prices further on the iPad 2, according to market research firm IDC. The prediction comes as IDC analysts, citing […]

Hewlett-Packard and IBM continue to lead a fast-growing global high-performance computing (HPC) technical server space. In numbers released by market research firm IDC June 15, HP in the first three months of the year held a 30.5 percent share of the HPC market, which saw revenue jump to $2.4 billion, a 3.1 percent increase from […]

Dell reportedly is making a $2.15 billion bid for Quest Software, two weeks after talks between the two companies had broken off. The $2.15 billion offer would be more than the $2 billion put forth by venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners two months ago, an offer that Quest officials initially agreed to in March. […]

Hewlett-Packard and Oracle executives reportedly failed for a second time to settle their legal dispute over Intel€™s Itanium platform, and the trial between the two resumed this week in a California courthouse. A two-day recess in the trial was called to allow for HP and Oracle officials to try to settle their differences, according to […]

A suspected member of the hacking group LulzSec, arrested a year ago in England, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for hacking into Websites of various entertainment firms and other companies during a two-month spree last year. The three-count indictment, handed up June 12 in a U.S. District Court in California, accuses Ryan […]

Microsoft and Symantec are developing a disaster recovery service that leverages Microsoft€™s Azure cloud platform and Symantec€™s storage software to enable businesses to protect critical data in the event of a disaster or failure at a primary data site. The idea behind the “disaster recovery as a service” platform is to give businesses of all […]

Advanced Micro Devices will integrate ARM-designed security technology into its x86-based processors, the latest move in an increasingly warm relationship between the two chip makers. The closer partnership between AMD and ARM comes after more than a year of speculation around AMD€™s possible use of ARM technology€”which is commonly found in most smartphones and tablets€”and […]

Google and Amazon will see their competition on the Web and in the cloud expand into the rush for new Internet top-level domains. The two companies were among the most active tech firms in putting in applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), filing at least three dozen each€”including making a pitch for at least […]

Dell executives are looking to pare $2 billion in expenses over the next three years as the company continues to expand its enterprise business while trying to shore up its core PC business. Meeting with analysts June 13, CEO Michael Dell and CFO Brian Gladden spoke about the company€™s continuing transformation into a complete IT […]

Juniper Networks is bringing its QFabric networking fabric to midsize businesses, a move that will grow its competition against the likes of Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard. Juniper€™s QFabric technology is designed to help flatten the data center network, creating a single networking layer that offers high performance, greater scalability and simpler manageability while saving on […]

Dell is expanding the capabilities of its Compellent storage platform, including a new Compellent unified NAS-SAN offering and expanding its Fluid File System to the Compellent portfolio. The new offerings are part of a larger rollout of new and enhanced technologies unveiled June 12 at the Dell Storage Forum event in Boston that also touch […]

ICANN on June 13 will kick off a land rush of sorts when it posts the list of proposed 2,000-plus new top-level domains and the 1,000 or so organizations that want them. In what€™s become known as €œReveal Day,€ ICANN, the global organization that holds sway over Internet domain names and addresses, will reach the […]