Jeff Burt

Pano Logic is releasing the latest version of its zero-client desktop virtualization offering, offering tighter integration with VMware’s View and support for Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system. Pano System 3.0, released April 14, also offers other new features as well, including the ability for users to reboot their virtual machines, or to lock their desktop […]

IBM has opened a $30 million manufacturing facility in New York that will produce the next generation of high-end Power and System z mainframe systems. The Poughkeepsie, N.Y., facility, which opened April 13, also will feature an energy-efficient design. The 56,000-square-foot building, housed within a larger building on IBM’s 400-acre campus, is a testament to […]

IBM is adding to its Power7 server line with three new blade servers designed for back-end computing workloads that take advantage of the performance enhancements in the new processor platform. Along with the new systems unveiled April 13, IBM also is rolling out a new edition of its AIX Unix operating system aimed at SMBs […]

Intel’s financial numbers soared in a first quarter that saw the chip maker aggressively roll out products and corporate spending begin to pick up. Intel, which owns an 80 percent share of the worldwide microprocessor market, generated $10.3 billion in the first three months of 2010, a 44 percent jump over the same period last […]

Xen.org is unveiling the latest release of its open-source Xen hypervisor, boosting the performance, scalability and availability of the virtualization technology. Xen 4.0, introduced April 13, offers a host of new features designed to address demands coming from enterprises and the growth of cloud computing, according to Ian Pratt, founder and chairman of Xen.org. Included […]

IT spending worldwide should grow 5.3 percent in 2010 over last year, reaching $3.4 trillion, according to industry research firm Gartner. In addition, spending will continue to increase into 2011, growing 4.2 percent on sales of more than $3.5 trillion, Gartner said in a report April 12. The increase in 2010 will come in several […]

Hewlett-Packard has completed its $2.7 billion acquisition of networking vendor 3Com, giving the company more ammunition in its growing data center competition with Cisco Systems. 3Com will be integrated into HP’s ProCurve networking business, and an integration road map will be rolled out at a later date, HP officials said in a statement released April […]

Intel earlier this year brought its Turbo Boost technology to its Core i7 desktop processors. The technology powers down idle cores in a processor and moving some of that power over to active cores, essentially overclocking them and improving the performance of the chip. Now rival Advanced Micro Devices is reportedly ready to add a […]

Intel Labs Offers a Peek at Future Technology, Cutting-Edge Chips by Jeffrey Burt Intel Reader Released last year, Intel’s Reader can take a picture of printed material, convert the material into digital text, and read it aloud for users who have trouble reading standard print because of vision problems or issues such as dyslexia. Your […]

Juniper Networks is adding to its ability to handle the rapidly increasing amount of video running over networks with the acquisition of Ankeena Networks. Juniper officials announced the deal April 8, and said the company would form the foundation of Juniper’s new Content and Media Business Unit, which will be part of the Junos Ready […]

NEW YORK-The way Shannon Poulin sees it, about 95 percent of the servers shipped every year are x86 systems powered by chips from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices. The other 5 percent, however, make up about 40 percent of worldwide server revenue. “That’s a small number of units for a large part of the revenue,” […]

Qwest Communications is the latest company to offer a hosted unified communications platform. Qwest on April 7 unveiled its iQ HUCS (Hosted Unified Communications Service) to help businesses bring together the various pieces of their communications infrastructure-from voice and video to e-mail, instant messaging, and presence-under a single, hosted umbrella. UC offers businesses the ability […]