Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems is continuing its push into the home, with a video communications strategy using a consumer high-definition television and a broadband connection. Cisco officials are talking about their plans at the Consumer Electronics Show, which runs Jan. 7 to 10 in Las Vegas. In conjunction with partner Verizon, Cisco will begin home telepresence trials […]

The Department of Energy is handing out $47 million in grants to projects aimed at increasing energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from data centers and other IT facilities. The grants, announced Jan. 6, will be distributed among 14 private projects around the country, and will be matched by $70 million in private industry […]

Graphics chip maker Nvidia is making a lot of promises around the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, but is not releasing many details. On its Facebook site, Nvidia officials say they will show off a GeForce GPU based on the company’s new “Fermi” architecture, which Nvidia unveiled last year. Nvidia also may talk about a new […]

Verari Systems, the server and storage device maker that laid off the bulk of its work force in December 2009 while trying to figure out its future, apparently is shutting down. Posted on Verari’s Website is a notice from a company that specializes in helping insolvent businesses, announcing an auction of Verari’s assets. On the […]

NetEx, with its HyperIP acceleration software, already enables users to quickly migrate VMware data to remote sites. Now the WAN optimization software vendor is looking to do the same for Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization products. NetEx announced Jan. 5 that the next version HyperIP, due out later this quarter, will support Microsoft’s virtualization offerings in Windows […]

Polycom will be teaming up with IBM at the Consumer Electronics Show to demonstrate a high-definition video conferencing system aimed for the home. Video conferencing and immersive telepresence technology is becoming increasingly popular in the corporate world as businesses look for ways to trim expenses, including travel costs. That arena is getting increasingly competitive, as […]

In another indication that the recovery in the tech industry is catching hold, the global semiconductor market in November 2009 saw its first year-over-year sales increase for the first time in a year, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. According to numbers released by the SIA Jan. 4, worldwide sales of semiconductors in November jumped […]

Advanced Micro Devices, which introduced its Vision program to consumers in September, is now expanding it to the commercial PC space. AMD on Jan. 4 rolled out its Vision Pro Technology platform that is aimed at offering both strong graphics capabilities and competitive prices. AMD’s Vision program for notebooks, rolled out in the fall, was […]

With the Consumer Electronics Show getting underway Jan. 7 in Las Vegas, Intel is readying the release of almost 20 32-nanometer Westmere processors for both desktops and laptops. Officials with the giant chip maker gave analysts and journalists a preview of some of the Core i3, i5 and i7 chips that will offer such features […]

With the global recession in full swing for much of 2009, data center managers saw their IT budgets shredded while the demand for services only grew. Given that, it’s no surprise that when data center professionals look to 2010, at the top of their wish list is money-not only money for their budgets, but also […]

2010 Data Center Wish List: More Money, Virtualization, Cloud Computing 2010 Data Center Wish List: More Money, Virtualization, Cloud ComputingBy Jeffrey Burt Money Thanks to the recession, IT spending dropped 5.2 percent in 2009, according to Gartner. Data center administrators would love to see those budgets grow in 2010, but Gartner is unsure whether that’s […]

One Laptop Per Child, the organization that is aiming to make low-cost laptops available to children around the globe, is laying out its product road map for the next three years, including a single-panel design targeted to be released in 2012. The group also announced Dec. 22 that it is cancelling its XO 2.0 system, […]