Jeff Burt

Awaiting the increase in corporate IT spending that is expected come as 2010 moves along, top-tier systems vendors are aggressively pushing their platforms as alternatives to those of their competitors. Dell and IBM on April 27 both boasted of the positions their high-end offerings hold in the rapidly evolving market. Dell officials noted that the […]

Avaya is rolling out a host of new enterprise-level networking tools designed to help businesses more easily handle the growing number of bandwidth-eating video and unified communications applications. Avaya will show off the new offerings at the Interop 2010 show, which kicks off April 26 in Las Vegas. The new products, which include a switch, […]

Hewlett-Packard is bringing its high-end Integrity server platform into its converged infrastructure strategy. HP officials on April 26 rolled out a refreshed line of Integrity systems powered by Intel’s newest Itanium 9300 “Tukwila” processors and built on a bladed architecture that covers everything from the lowest-end x86 ProLiant systems to the newest Superdome system. With […]

F5 Networks is continuing its push to help enterprises extend their data center infrastructures into cloud computing environments. At the Interop 2010 show in Las Vegas April 26, F5 officials unveiled an architecture they are calling the Dynamic Services Model, which touches on a host of the vendor’s technologies for all types of environments, from […]

Extreme Networks will bring two new pieces of their virtualized data center strategy to the Interop 2010 show in Las Vegas, which starts April 25. Extreme will show off its Extreme XNV virtualization lifecycle management offering and its new Direct Attach data center architecture that is designed to let virtual machines be directly attached to […]

CloudShare, which makes products that enable businesses to quickly build and share copies of their complex IT environments in a cloud computing environment, plans to roll out a product that will let enterprises quickly upload existing virtual machines as a cloud-based service. FastUpload, to be announced April 19, is the latest offering from CloudShare designed […]

Verizon Business is enhancing its cloud computing offering with such capabilities as server cloning and greater operating system support. Verizon announced the enhancements to its Cloud as a Service-or CAAS-solution April 15. The server cloning feature enables IT administrators to customize a virtual server within CAAS and then create a reference-or “golden”-server image that can […]

Intel officials used their developer conference in China to give the industry a peek at their upcoming 32-nanometer “Sandy Bridge” processor platform and their “Tunnel Creek” Atom-based system-on-a-chip. In his keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing April 13, Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and co-general manager of the Intel Architecture Group, told […]

Advanced Micro Devices saw a boost in server and PC revenue in the first quarter, and overall generated $257 million in profit on $1.57 billion in revenue. The quarter was the second in a row in which the world’s second-largest chip maker saw a profit after 12 consecutive quarters of losses. CEO Dirk Meyer said […]

Virtualization software maker Parallels is making it easier for hosting companies to offer their clients access to Google services. Parallels officials on April 15 announced that the company is integrating Google Services for Websites into its Plesk Panel 9.5 control panel. The integration will enable small businesses to more easily take advantage of Google Services […]

Cisco Systems is rolling out a host of new networking gear and services designed to make it easier for SMBs to more easily leverage the Internet and grow their communications capabilities. Cisco’s new offerings, announced April 14, include a new family of unmanaged networking switches that offer small businesses Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity. […]

Hewlett-Packard is looking to help businesses redesign their corporate desktop environments with a new services portfolio. The HP Client Infrastructure Services offering, announced April 14, is designed to help IT staffs navigate the changing demands from both businesses and employees, and to help them sort through the host of options opening up to them in […]