Jeff Burt

Dell and Hewlett-Packard are using Citrix Systems’ Synergy 2010 show to roll out new mobile products and services for their respective desktop virtualization initiatives. The Synergy 2010 conference is running May 12-14 in San Francisco. Both OEMs are offering support for Citrix’s new XenClient hypervisor technology, which is designed to extend Citrix’s desktop virtualization capabilities […]

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers sounded both excited and cautious as he announced strong quarterly earnings for the company May 12. Several times during a lengthy conference call with analysts and reporters, Chambers touted fiscal third-quarter results that included revenue of $10.4 billion and net income of $2.2 billion-27 percent and 62.6 percent increases over […]

Officials from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices this week once again spoke about the changing dynamics in the computer industry and their companies’ efforts to change with them. During a meeting with investors May 11, Intel CEO Paul Otellini and other executives spoke about how they expect earnings and revenues to show growth in the […]

BOSTON-EMC is planning to roll out a host of storage networking products and services later this year as part of its initiative in enabling the evolution of private clouds. At the EMC World 2010 show here May 10, EMC officials announced a converged networking strategy aimed at data centers. The strategy includes expanded networking services, […]

BOSTON-EMC officials are unveiling the first product in their Virtual Storage strategy that is expected to eventually enable businesses to move large amounts of stored data anywhere in the world without the latency and bandwidth problems that traditionally have been tied to storage. At the first full day of the EMC World 2010 conference here […]

Video conferencing equipment vendor Polycom has a new CEO: former Cisco Systems and Tandberg executive Andrew Miller was named to the post May 10. Miller replaces Robert Hagerty, who is resigning as CEO and board chairman and is leaving his position on the board. Miller’s appointment is effective immediately, and Hagerty will stay around a […]

BOSTON-Much of EMC’s focus on the first day of the EMC World 2010 show here is on cloud computing, something that many IT vendors, analysts and others are talking about. However, according to EMC CEO Joe Tucci, the storage giant has a different view of the future of cloud computing. In his keynote speech here […]

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is getting the backing of Sarah Palin in her bid for a U.S. Senate seat in California. In a statement released May 6, and further in comments on her Facebook page, Palin, the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate, praised Fiorina’s business resume and her conservative political positions. […]

Max Palevsky, a co-founder of chip giant Intel who made a fortune in the technology business before turning his attention to philanthropy and politics, died May 5 at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., at the age of 85. Palevsky died of heart failure, his assistant, Angela Kaye, told the New York Times. Palevsky became […]

SGI is updating its Altix ICE blade servers with the latest x86 processors from both Intel and Advanced Micro Devices and a bulked-up InfiniBand network designed to increase scalability. SGI’s Altix ICE 8400, announced May 5 and aimed at the HPC (high-performance computing) space, can scale as high as 65,536 nodes, and can be powered […]

IBM is turning its massive computational and data analysis capabilities to the health care field. IBM officials on May 6 announced a project at their Almaden Research facilities to take public health data that’s already been collected to help government agencies, businesses and health care providers develop strategies to better take on a host of […]

The semiconductor is poised for a record year, as long as the economy continues to improve, according to analysts at iSuppli. In a report issued May 6, iSuppli analysts said the semiconductor industry is poised to generate $300.3 billion in revenue, a 30.6 percent jump from the $229.9 billion during recession-plagued 2009. The $300.3 billion […]