Jeff Burt

Polycom is making the telepresence experience for businesses customizable. Polycom on Nov. 17 unveiled its ATX (Architected Telepresence Experience) 300 solution, which is designed to let businesses create a telepresence environment that fits their particular situation. Joan Vandermate, vice president of marketing for video solutions for Polycom, said in an interview that the top telepresence […]

Federal regulators reportedly are investigating whether there was illegal inside trading connected to Hewlett-Packard’s $2.7 billion bid for networking company 3Com. According to a report by Bloomberg, options call trading for 3Com jumped in the hours before HP announced the offer, at one point growing to 17 times its average over the previous four weeks, […]

Cisco Systems, facing the possibility of falling short of the needed shareholder support, has upped its offer for video conferencing equipment maker Tandberg to $3.4 billion. Cisco’s Nov. 16 announcement came two days for its deadline for gaining acceptance for its initial $3 billion of at least 90 percent of Tandberg shareholders. With the new […]

IBM officials are sharply cutting memory prices on their Power systems in hopes of enticing more Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems customers to migrate their RISC platform. IBM will reduce memory prices 28 to 70 percent, believing that such a move will lure more customers onto the Power architecture, according to Scott Handy, vice president of […]

ARM, which designs the processors used in many of the world’s handheld devices and other consumer electronics, is now opening a resource center for designers and developers building ARM-powered products that run on the Android operating system. ARM on Nov. 17 announced its Solution Center for Android, an online resource that offers everything from developer […]

The recovery in the global economy, coupled with Microsoft’s October release of Windows 7, is creating an environment in which businesses are taking a hard look at new technology, including desktop virtualization, according to Hewlett-Packard officials. With that in mind, HP on Nov. 17 launched a host of thin-client hardware and software and related services […]

Hewlett-Packard is making an effort to address concerns about power and costs in the high-performance computing space with a host of new hardware and software offerings, including a blade system that doubles the compute density in a single rack. HP’s ProLiant BL2x220c G6 puts two two-socket blade servers powered by Intel’s Xeon 5500 Series chips […]

The new SGI is continuing the supercomputing legacy of its namesake processor. At the Supercomputing 2009 show Nov. 16, SGI unveiled what officials are calling the fastest and most scalable shared-memory system. Powered by Intel’s upcoming “Nehalem EX” Xeon processors, the Altix UV can scale from 32 to 2,048 processing cores and can support up […]

IBM’s reign atop the list of the world’s fastest supercomputers is over, with Cray’s “Jaguar” system knocking off Big Blue’s “Roadrunner” after more than a year as number one. The Top500 list of the most powerful systems kicks off the Supercomputer 2009 show in Portland, Ore., which will run until Nov. 20. With Roadrunner, at […]

Nvidia is continuing its efforts to push GPUs deeper into mainstream computing with the unveiling of its upcoming line of graphics processors that will be built on its new “Fermi” architecture. Nvidia officials announced the Tesla 20 series Nov. 16 at the Supercomputing show in Portland, Ore. Designed for use in parallel computing projects, the […]

Cray and Dell are teaming up to bring high-end computing capabilities to workstation users. The two companies on Nov. 12 announced the Cray CX1-iWS system, which offers a workstation running Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system integrated with an HPC (high-performance computing) cluster running Windows HPC Server 2008. The news comes ahead of the Supercomputing 2009 […]

GPU computing and energy efficiency will be key to a host of new and enhanced high-performance computing offerings at the Supercomputing show starting Nov. 14. And according to John Lee, vice president of advanced technology solutions for Appro, his company won’t be the only one at the show in Portland, Ore., talking about the increasing […]