Jeff Burt

Intel, Microsoft and Cisco Systems are using the National Retailers Foundation Convention in New York this week to outline their strategies around more interactive digital signage. Intel on Jan. 11 demonstrated its multiuser digital signage prototype that is designed to be used in such places as stores, banks, hotels and airports to let customers manipulate […]

CA is continuing to build on its portfolio of software designed to help businesses and service providers manage their cloud computing environments. CA announced Jan. 11 that it has bought Oblicore, a company whose software helps users monitor and manage their service level agreements across their IT infrastructures, a key issue as businesses start tapping […]

APC by Schneider Electric is bringing its InfraStruxure power and cooling architecture to IBM’s containerized data center. APC announced Jan. 11 that through an expanded partnership, IBM’s PMDC (Portable Modular Data Center) can be ordered with the InfraStruxure products already integrated. The APC offering includes everything from racks and power supplies to cooling systems. APC’s […]

Globalfoundries, the chip manufacturing business spun out in 2009 by Advanced Micro Devices, is continuing to move beyond AMD by entering into a deal with mobile chip maker Qualcomm. The memorandum of understanding between the two companies, announced Jan. 7, makes Qualcomm Globalfoundries’ largest customer outside of AMD. Globalfoundries currently has STMicroelectronics as a customer, […]

Nvidia will increase its competition with Intel with the release of its next-generation Tegra SoC (system-on-a-chip) offering, which the company is launching at the Consumer Electronics Show. Nvidia officials announced the new Tegra offering Jan. 7 at the Las Vegas event, saying that the processor offers four times the performance of the previous Tegra product […]

Software vendor TmaxSoft for several years has been using its OpenFrame solution to help businesses migrate their mainframe workloads from IBM’s massive systems to distributed computing environments running less expensive industry-standard servers. Now TmaxSoft is offering its rehosting software to businesses that want to keep their mission-critical applications on the mainframe, but reduce the associated […]

As the budgetary crunch brought on the by global recession begins to ease, enterprises are starting to refocus their efforts on green technology, according to a recent report from Forrester Research. In its latest quarterly report on the subject, Forrester analysts are finding that steadily growing numbers of IT professionals are not only aware of […]

Fujitsu is rolling out two new single-socket servers that take advantage of Intel’s 32-nanometer “Clarkdale” processors. The new entry-level systems, announced Jan. 7, can use not only the new Pentium G6950 or Core i3-530 and 540 models-which Intel announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas-but also the chip maker’s Xeon 3400 series processors, […]

Cisco Systems is showing off its newly acquired Starent Networks technologies by participating in Verizon Wireless demonstrations at CES. Cisco bought Starent Dec. 18 for $2.9 billion, a move designed to give the company greater traction in the rapidly growing mobile Internet market. Starent makes products for wireless service providers, such as AT&T and Verizon, […]

Dell is giving business users and consumers a look at new and future products at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The systems maker on Jan. 7 unveiled a host of new and enhanced mobile devices, including mainstream and gaming laptops, as well as a peek as its upcoming Mini 3 Android-based smartphone for […]

Toshiba apparently likes the limelight of CES. A day after announcing an expanded lineup of Satellite ultrathin laptops powered by Advanced Micro Devices’ Neo chip platform, Toshiba on Jan. 7 unveiled a host of new notebooks running Intel’s latest Core processors. The systems vendor is putting the new processors into products in its Satellite, Tecra […]

Toshiba is expanding its ultrathin laptop lineup with new systems built upon Advanced Micro Devices’ dual-core Neo platform. Toshiba’s Digital Products Division announced the new ultrathin laptops Jan. 6 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Toshiba news of its expanded Satellite T100 Series comes amid a host of notebook announcements from other […]