Jeff Burt

Enterasys is rolling out its enterprise networking fabric play, OneFabric, which will look to challenge such heavyweights as Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks. Enterasys officials unveiled their OneFabric architecture Oct. 17, saying their strategy offers a more complete and less complex solution than those from their competitors. “There are other solutions out there, but […]

Advanced Micro Devices is getting new chips based on its new “Bulldozer” multicore architecture into the market with its lineup of FX processors, including two eight-core desktop chips. The FX chips-four in all, ranging from four to eight cores-are aimed at high-end systems for extreme multi-display gaming, high-definition content creation, and multimedia for PC and […]

Emulex in December will begin shipping what officials say are the fastest Fibre Channel host bus adapters in the world and designed specifically with virtualization and cloud computing in mind. The company’s LightPulse 16Gb Fibre Channel HBAs will deliver more than 1 million I/O per second (IOPS) over a single port, which officials said is […]

Lenovo has already overtaken Dell as the world’s second-largest PC vendor. Now the China-based company is taking aim at the top spot occupied by Hewlett-Packard. Gartner analysts said Oct. 12 that Lenovo in the third quarter grabbed 13.5 percent of PC shipments worldwide, leap-frogging over Dell to become No. 2 behind HP in the sluggish […]

Hewlett-Packard executives reportedly are rethinking the controversial decision to get rid of the company’s $41 billion PC business. Rather than spin it off into its own company or sell it, HP may end up keeping the Personal Systems Group, according to an Oct. 12 story in the Wall Street Journal, citing “people familiar with the […]

Supercomputer maker Cray will bring together CPUs from Advanced Micro Devices and graphics technology from Nvidia to upgrade the massive Jaguar system at a national laboratory and create what could become the world’s more powerful supercomputer. Cray officials in May unveiled its latest hybrid CPU-GPU supercomputer, the XK6, which will be powered by AMD’s upcoming […]

Asus, a day after Acer introduced the first of its ultrabooks, is readying two of its own ultra-thin and -light laptops to hit the market on Oct. 12. Asus executives on Oct. 11 announced what they are calling Zenbooks, the 11.6-inch UX21 and the 13.3-inch UX31, two systems that are joining Acer’s Aspire S3-951 as […]

Acer this week will start selling its new Aspire S3-951 laptop, an ultrabook that will come in at a cost under the crucial $1,000 price point set by Intel when it introduced the concept in May. Acer officials announced the new ultrabook Oct. 10, which will start at $899 and will offer a host of […]

Polycom is bringing its high-definition video collaboration software to Apple’s iPad 2 and Android-based tablets from Motorola and Samsung, part of the vendor’s larger software strategy that was unveiled in late September. The move also is a nod to the growing importance of mobility in the enterprise, particularly the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, where employees increasingly […]

Unified communications and video collaboration technology vendors are bringing their products to smartphones and tablets as enterprises increase their demand for high-end communications capabilities while dealing with employees looking to bring their mobile device into the corporate environment. ShoreTel on Oct. 10 is expanding the reach of its ShoreTel Mobility solution-which enables the integration of […]

Hewlett-Packard officials are continuing to build the company’s networking business as it looks to chip away at Cisco Systems’ leading market share. HP made itself into Cisco Systems’ top competitor in the enterprise networking space when it bought rival 3Com last year, and made its most significant move in May with the rollout of its […]

Cisco Systems is aggressively rolling out solutions designed to help enterprises manage how they use video within their businesses, and to lessen the impact it will have on their networks. The networking giant on Oct. 5 introduced upgrades to its WAN optimization products designed to help businesses improve the speed of their applications and reduce […]