Jeff Burt

Oracle officials are unveiling new SPARC-based data center hardware as the company looks to build on the processor and server business it gained through its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January. Oracle will announce the new offerings at an event Dec. 2 at the company’s Santa Clara, Calif., campus. The products will touch […]

The worldwide server market saw revenues grow 13.2 and shipments jump 13.1 percent in the third quarter as demand for systems continued to increase worldwide, according to market research firm IDC. Hewlett-Packard took over the lead in the server revenue space as businesses push for x86-based systems, IDC said in a report released Dec. 1. […]

Intel and Nvidia reportedly are in talks to settle their legal disputes over licensing issues. The vendors requested a postponement of their scheduled Dec. 6 trial. Intel and Nvidia appear to be negotiating a settlement to their legal disputes, according to reports. The two companies, which traded legal accusations over licensing issues in 2009, were […]

Logicworks is looking to create a public cloud offering that will entice businesses to move key applications to the cloud. In most public cloud environments, enterprises are content to run test-and-development workloads or non-crucial applications, according to Kenneth Ziegler, president and COO of Logicworks. With its new InfiniCloud, the company has created a public cloud […]

Enterprises that want more energy-efficient processor platforms for their cloud-computing environments shouldn’t look to Advanced Micro Devices’ upcoming “Bobcat” architecture. At least not yet. In a Nov. 29 blog post, John Fruehe, director of product marketing for server, embedded and FireStream products at AMD, said a customer on a recent trip to Asia asked him […]

Hewlett-Packard was the world’s top server vendor in the third quarter as x86-based systems continued to drive growth in the space, according to market research firm Gartner. In a report issued Nov. 29, HP garnered 32.1 percent of the revenue market share-generating in more than $3.9 billion during those three months-and shipped more than 715,000 […]

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are planning new processor offerings aimed at giving their x86-based products greater traction in the growing embedded devices market. Intel’s new portfolio of Atom processors, the E600C series, and AMD’s upcoming G series of APUs (accelerated processing units) will both hit the market in the first quarter of 2011, giving […]

The issues of faulty PCs and Dell’s slow response to dealing with them are finding their way back into the news. Documents released by a Federal District Court judge in North Carolina Nov. 18 gives greater details to accusations that Dell officials tried to hide issues surrounding faulty OptiPlex PCs sold to a wide range […]

Adaptive Computing is upgrading its Moab management software to address the rapidly growing number of computing nodes and processor cores-and the increasing use of such accelerators as graphics chips-in the high-performance computing space. Adaptive Computing is rolling out Moab 6.0 and its companion, Moab Viewpoint 2.0, both of which are designed to improve and streamline […]

That energy vendors such as Cisco Systems, Avaya and, now, Microsoft are expanding their unified communications (UC) offerings is showing up in the overall market numbers, according to research firm Dell’Oro Group. In a report Nov. 18, Dell’Oro said that the third quarter saw the strongest growth in the UC space since 2008, and, with […]

Juniper Networks is buying the intellectual property of Blackwave, which makes Internet video delivery and storage technologies. The deal, announced Nov. 18, marks the second acquisition by Juniper this week and the latest move by the networking company to expand its capabilities in the highly competitive Internet video market, which is drawing the interest of […]

Smooth-Stone, a startup that is looking to move the ARM processor designs into the data center, is changing its name and bulking up its executive team with industry veterans from such companies as Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Marvell. The company, which announced $48 million in funding three months ago, is changing its name to Calxeda and […]