Jeff Burt

In a recent interview with eWEEK, Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager of Dell’s Server Platforms business, said that even though the company is rapidly intensifying its push to become less of a box maker and more of a solutions provider, servers will still be a key piece of the equation. “We still see […]

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-When Intel starts shipping its newest “Sandy Bridge” PC processors later this quarter, the chips will come with the latest generation of the company’s vPro on-board management and security capabilities that now will include the ability to lock down lost or stolen PCs via a 3G text message. Intel officials have put on demonstrations […]

Nvidia and Qualcomm are looking to bring quad-core processors to the mobile world. Nvidia officials at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona not only demonstrated the upcoming “Kal-El” chip, which couples the four computing cores with a new 12-core GeForce GPU, but also laid out a roadmap through 2014 that will offer almost 100 […]

Hewlett-Packard, which already helps enterprises plan and design their new data centers, now wants to be the general contractor on the projects. HP on Feb. 15 unveiled its CFI (Critical Facilities Implementation) service, a move company officials said will streamline the process of building data centers and give enterprises one place to go for the […]

Oracle and Fujitsu are expanding their SPARC-development partnership, promising performance from the companies’ Enterprise M-series servers that will be 15 times better over the next three years. The two companies-which are competing against the likes of IBM in the high end of the Unix market-also said Feb. 15 that the sales teams for both can […]

Oracle officials are bringing their 16-core SPARC T3 processors to their line of Netra carrier-grade servers. At the Mobile World Congress 2011 show in Barcelona Feb. 15, Oracle unveiled the Netra SPARC T3-1 2U (3.5-inch) rack server and SPARC T3-1BA ACTA blade system, both powered by the latest chip, which Oracle rolled out in September […]

Dell is among a number of server makers expected to take advantage of new Opteron processor offerings from Advanced Micro Devices. AMD on Feb. 14 is rolling out five new Opteron 6100 Series chips that offer high core counts and speed bumps that continue to push the company’s drive for greater performance and lower power […]

Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks are rolling out new products and services at the Mobile World Congress 2011 show in Barcelona designed to help mobile operators handle the exploding amount of data on their networks. Cisco on Feb. 14 unveiled Cisco MOVE, a collection of solutions to enable service providers to not only better manage […]

Avaya is introducing an avatar-based, Second Life-like collaboration environment for businesses. The company on Feb. 10 unveiled web.alive, a platform that can be hosted by Avaya or housed by businesses on their own infrastructures and in which participants via their personalized avatars create and participate in meetings, conferences and other collaborative scenarios within a virtual […]

Polycom officials a year ago dismissed rival Cisco Systems’ newly introduced immersive video conferencing interoperability protocol as a tool for the larger company to dominate the crucial issue of making telepresence systems work together. Now Polycom officials are ready to embrace TIP (Telepresence Interoperability Protocol), saying in an announcement that adoption of the protocol in […]

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers once again had to go before analysts and journalists and explain the relatively sluggish performance of the company, particularly when compared with other high-tech giants such as Intel, Google and IBM. Chambers, calling Cisco a company in transition, pointed to a number of areas that he said are holding the […]

Chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices, a month after seeing CEO Dirk Meyer forced out, announced Feb. 9 that two more executives were leaving the company. Robert Rivet, AMD’s chief operations and administrative officer, and Marty Seyer, senior vice president of corporate strategy and the company face for many of its product efforts, are both leaving the […]