Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems officials last spring gave a jolt to the infrastructure market when they rolled out their data center strategy headlined by their Unified Computing System converged data center offering. Thirteen months later, Cisco is ready to launch its latest data center vision, which includes the second-generation UCS, enhanced I/O technologies for greater scalability, networking […]

from former Intel chairman and CEO Craig Barrett. In an op-ed column in the San Jose Mercury News April 4, Barrett defended Fiorina’s tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, particularly her controversial decision to buy Compaq Computer for $25 billion in 2002. The move faced a lot of skepticism from inside and outside the company, and […]

The worldwide semiconductor market continued to show signs of recovery in February, with sales jumping 56.2 percent over February 2009, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. Sales for the month were $22 billion, an SIA survey released April 5 found. The $22 billion was a 1.3 percent drop from the $22.3 billion in sales generated […]

Days after Intel and Advanced Micro Devices launched new high-end x86 chips that drive the architecture higher up the server chain, Microsoft officials announced they are ending support for Intel’s Itanium chip in their server software. In an April 2 post on the Windows Server blog, Dan Reger, a Microsoft senior technical product manager, said […]

Hewlett-Packard and Dell, No. 1 and No. 3 in the worldwide PC market, respectively, may be scaling back their investments in the 10-inch netbook space, according to reports. DigiTimes, quoting unnamed sources from netbook manufacturers, said April 1 that the two vendors are considering the move because of disappointing sales of the systems powered by […]

Cisco Systems is bringing its WebEx collaboration offering to Apple’s iPad. When Apple’s tablet goes on sale April 3, owners will be able to download Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center app, enabling them to participate in online meetings. The move April 2 is the latest by Cisco to enable businesspeople to use its collaboration technology on […]

Desktop virtualization vendor Wyse Technology is making its PocketCloud software available to users of Apple’s iPad. Wyse introduced PocketCloud in August 2009 as a way to enable users of Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch to access their work environments on their PCs and virtual desktops from their iPhone or iPod Touch. It also lets IT […]

Two of IBM’s new Power7 servers have reached Energy Star status, making them the first four-socket systems to meet the federal government’s criteria for energy efficiency. IBM officials said April 1 that the Power 750 Express and Power 755 models met the standards outlined by the Environmental Protection Agency. The designation comes two months after […]

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out new products and a new financing offer to lure away enterprises now running high-end IBM and Sun Microsystems. The offerings, announced April 1, constitute the latest push in an ongoing tug-of-war between HP and IBM to attract users to their own high-end, non-x86 platforms, and to scoop up Sun Microsystems customers […]

In the space of less than 48 hours, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices dramatically altered how the industry views x86 computing, offered high-end customers significant options going forward and gave OEMs powerful new computing platforms on which to innovate. At the same time, the two chip makers continued down separate paths that to some degree […]

Intel, AMD Push x86 Chips into High-End Server Market by Jeffrey Burt AMD Opteron 6000 AMD’s new eight- to 12-core Opteron 6000 series offers twice the performance of the company’s six-core “Istanbul” chips and supports four channels of DDR3 memory for up to two-and-a-half times the overall memory bandwidth. The 4P Tax AMD officials say […]

Advanced Micro Devices picked up some market share in the worldwide microprocessor space in the fourth quarter of 2009, taking some away from rival Intel as well as from the smaller players, according to market research company iSuppli. In a report issued March 31, iSuppli said AMD saw its market share in microprocessor revenue grow […]