Jeff Burt

Tablets powered by Intel’s upcoming “Oak Trail” Atom processor reportedly should start hitting the market in May. In an interview with PC Advisor, an Intel spokesperson said the Atom-powered tablets will start becoming available around the time of the Computex trade show in Taiwan, which runs May 31 through June 4. “Oak Trail tablets are […]

Advanced Micro Device’s “Llano” processor for mainstream notebooks and desktop PCs is now shipping and is expected to appear in systems sometime this quarter. AMD interim CEO Thomas Seifert made the announcement during a conference call with analysts and journalists April 4 to discuss new conditions of its wafer supply agreement with semiconductor manufacturer Globalfoundries, […]

Intel’s “Sandy Bridge” processors may not be exciting the PC user base as much as the chip maker may have expected, according to one analyst. In a March 31 report, FBR Capital Markets analyst Craig Berger said that after checking with the top six notebooks ODMs (original design manufacturers), overall builds of PCs in the […]

Acer, which over the past couple of years has competed with Dell for the position of the world’s second-largest maker of PCs, is looking for a new president and CEO after Gianfranco Lanci resigned March 31 following a disagreement with the board of directors over the direction of the company. Lanci’s resignation came after a […]

Hewlett-Packard is opening a facility that will act as a testing ground for efficient and sustainable data center technologies. Unveiled March 30, the site in Fort Collins, Colo., will serve multiple purposes, including being used as a data center for internal applications run by HP as well as a test-bed for green data center operations. […]

NEW YORK-Enterprise computing increasingly will hinge on cloud computing and virtualization, and Advanced Micro Devices’ server chip road map dovetails nicely with that trend, according to a company executive. In a recent interview with eWEEK here, Vlad Rozanovich, director of North America commercial business for AMD, noted the various trends-mobile computing and social networking, increasing […]

Hewlett-Packard executives reportedly are looking to their channel partners to pressure Oracle into reversing its decision to end software development for Intel’s Itanium chip platform. During a March 29 keynote address at HP’s Americas Partner Conference 2011 in Las Vegas, Dave Donatelli, executive vice president and general manager of HP’s Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking […]

Cisco Systems is looking to bolster its cloud computing services offering by acquiring privately held newScale, a company that offers software that enables businesses to more efficiently provision resources across their IT environments. Cisco announced the deal March 29. No financial details were disclosed. NewScale, which company officials said has about 2 million users worldwide, […]

Revenue in the burgeoning video-conferencing and telepresence market grew 18 percent, to $2.2 billion, in 2010, and will hit the $5 billion mark by 2015, according to market research firm Infonetics Research. The trend is being driven by enterprises that are looking for better ways to communicate to their employees, particularly as workforces become increasingly […]

Enterprises as well as small and midsize businesses are investing in collaboration tools, but beyond reducing travel expenses and improving corporate communications, they aren’t seeing a lot of benefits, according to a recent survey by Forrester Research. Products like team workspaces, social tools like blogs and wikis, desktop video conferencing, and unified communications solutions are […]

SGI can now scale Windows Server 2008 R2 to its maximum amount on the system maker’s Intel-based Altix UV. SGI, which focuses on the HPC (high-performance computing) environment and large-scale workloads with its Altix UV, announced March 25 that on the system, users can now deploy Windows Server 2008 R2 and related Windows-based applications to […]

Oracle officials continue to insist that Intel is phasing out its Itanium platform and are criticizing Hewlett-Packard for saying otherwise. Oracle’s statement is the latest shot in a back-and-forth that began March 22 when the giant software maker said it will no longer develop software for Itanium processors. In the brief statement, company officials said […]