Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard is adding to its cloud computing services lineup, offering consulting designed to help enterprises speed up their ability to adopt the burgeoning computing model. HP on Feb. 16 rolled out its Cloud Design Service, which gives businesses a way of designing and deploying scalable cloud computing environments and ensuring that the infrastructure can support […]

Dell is looking to make it easier for enterprises to manage and use their Microsoft Windows-based IT assets. Dell on Feb. 16 rolled out its OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft System Center, which is a set of tools designed to help businesses more quickly and securely run their Windows environments. At the same time, Dell […]

Juniper Networks is making its push into the mobile networking space with a host of new offerings being rolled out at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The new products, announced Feb. 14, build on Juniper’s “Project Falcon,” which company officials first talked about in October as a way of addressing mobile device traffic across […]

The European Commission has given its approval to Hewlett-Packard’s $2.7 billion bid to buying networking equipment maker 3Com. In a statement released Feb. 12, the European regulators said they had concluded their investigation of the proposed deal-focusing particularly on the router and switch market-and determined that there were no antitrust concerns. “The Commission’s investigation confirmed […]

Texas Instruments has begun sampling its upcoming OMAP 4 processor platform, and is showcasing the product at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain. TI announced at the show Feb. 15 that the platform, first talked about at the MWC show in 2009, will be in production in the second half of 2010. The […]

Intel is bringing its “Nehalem” Xeon architecture to the embedded, networking and storage spaces with the release of its “Jasper Forest” processor family. The new Xeon C5500/C3500 series, rolled out Feb. 11, offers PCI Express and all I/O functions integrated onto the dual-core chips. In addition, the new offerings lower power consumption by 27 watts […]

SGI is taking its technical computing expertise to the cloud. SGI is rolling out Cyclone, its cloud computing environment for the HPC (high-performance computing) market, which officials called an extension of what the company has been offering in traditional and modular data center settings. “This is our entrance into the cloud computing space,” Geoffrey Noer, […]

Server OEMs and chip makers are turning a spotlight on the high end of the systems market, ramping up the rhetoric for their competition in the highly profitable but shrinking Unix space. IBM made its move Dec. 8, with the rollout of its first powerful Power7 systems, which promise chip- and system-level features that greatly […]

An improved housing market and aggressive pricing bundles by service providers will help stabilize an IP telephony market that has suffered through two years of deep declines, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group. In a report Feb. 10, Dell’Oro analysts said they expect that the number of subscribers to VOIP (voice over IP) services […]

Hewlett-Packard should have no trouble getting approval from European regulators for its $2.7 billion acquisition of networking equipment maker 3Com, according to a published report. Quoting an unnamed source close to the negotiations, a Reuters report Feb. 10 said the European Commission has no major competitive concerns about the deal. “It should go through smoothly,” […]

Interoperability will be a key driver after Cisco Systems completes its $3.4 billion acquisition of Tandberg, not only between the two companies’ technologies but also with third-party telepresence products. Cisco officials say they expect to get final regulatory approval for the deal in the first half of 2010, after which they’ll create a new Cisco […]

IBM, Microsoft Help Bring Big Sky Supercomputer to Montana by Jeffrey Burt IBM Cluster This is one of the two enclosures that make up the IBM 1350 cluster. It houses the cluster’s head nodes, the storage controllers and most of the storage arrays. It also houses some of the InfiniBand network. At the very top […]