Jeff Burt

SGI is offering product support to customers of struggling server rival Verari Systems. Verari has laid off the bulk of its 225 or so employees and is undergoing what CEO David Wright calls a restructuring, though it’s unclear what the company may look like-or whether it will be around-after the restructuring. There are 20 or […]

The Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against Intel has a familiar ring to it, echoing many of the charges of anticompetitive behavior that can be found in similar complaints filed by European regulators, U.S. investigators and rivals of the chip making giant. However, there are key elements that separate the FTC’s Dec. 16 filing from those […]

Stratus Technologies is betting $50,000 on its latest fault-tolerant server. Stratus Dec. 15 announced its Zero Downtime $50K Guarantee program, which covers its ftServer 6300, the latest of its fault-tolerant systems powered by Intel’s “Nehalem”-based Xeon processors and running Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 operating system. The program says that if problems with Stratus’ hardware, system […]

Cape Cod Healthcare is looking to Siemens Healthcare’s Soarian health IT software to increase efficiency and improve medical care at the organization’s two hospitals and other facilities. Siemens on Dec. 15 announced a seven-year deal with Cape Cod Healthcare that will include applications aimed at everything from financials to scheduling to analytics. Cape Cod Healthcare […]

Revenue in the worldwide wireless LAN market jumped to more than $1 billion in the third quarter, with the health care and education sectors driving the growth, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group. There also was growth in sales of 802.11n products, Dell’Oro Group said Dec. 14. The third quarter saw the supply constraints […]

Citrix Systems is adding disaster recovery capabilities to its data center virtualization platform for Microsoft’s Hyper-V technology. Citrix’s new Essentials 5.5 for Microsoft Hyper-V includes Citrix StorageLink Site Recovery, a set of tools that enable users to set up, test and manage disaster recovery capabilities through a single console, which company officials said will become […]

Hewlett-Packard is calling in Microsoft, Red Hat and Novell to help it cherry-pick customers from Sun Microsystems. HP officials said Dec. 15 that the operating system vendors are bringing service offerings, incentives and training programs designed to make it easier for Sun customers to migrate to HP. The partnerships are the latest steps by HP […]

RingCube is bringing its desktop virtualization product to Microsoft’s server management offering. RingCube announced Dec. 14 that it is integrating its vDesk product into Microsoft’s System Center Configuration Manager 2007, which will expand the server management software’s capabilities to cover what RingCube officials called “unmanaged PCs”-those belonging to such workers as contractors, consultants, outsourced workers […]

Adtran’s entrance into the unified communications space adds another player to a rapidly changing market. In the past few months, the UC field has seen consolidations, partnerships and new entrants as vendors look to position themselves in a space that is expected to grow rapidly over the next few years. Cisco Systems is looking to […]

Neon Systems, a small Texas company that makes software designed to shift mainframe workloads onto cheaper specialty processors, is suing IBM for what officials say are false and disparaging claims about its product. In a lawsuit filed Dec. 14 in U.S. District Court in Texas, Neon officials are claiming that IBM has bullied customers into […]

Server maker Verari Systems is undergoing a restructuring that has led to the layoffs of a large portion of its work force and put into question its future viability. Currently, a number of employees are still working in Verari’s San Diego, Calif., headquarters to deal with a backlog of orders and to develop a plan […]

What’s Hot in Unified Communications, VOIP for 2010 by Jeffrey Burt Commoditization The commodization of core telephony technology, such as basic voice service—including including PBX and first-generation VOIP—will continue. These technologies will not be any less important or critical, but the advent of open source and increased competition will continue to drive down prices. Consumerization […]