Jeff Burt

Semiconductor sales continued to grow in August, jumping 5 percent over sales in July and rising for the sixth consecutive month, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. Still, the numbers were down significantly-16.1 percent-when compared with the same month a year ago, according to the SIA, which released the latest figures Oct. 2. SIA President […]

Hewlett-Packard is expanding the offerings in its Unified Cluster Portfolio by adding Voltaire‘s Unified Fabric Manager product to the lineup. When used in conjunction with Voltaire’s 20G-bps or 40G-bps InfiniBand switches, the UFM software can give IT administrators greater visibility into their scale-out data centers and improve manageability. The software gives users a logical view […]

As Cisco Systems looks to extend the reach of its high-definition video conferencing capabilities into the midmarket through its proposed purchase of Tandberg, LifeSize Communications is rolling out an offering aimed at such sectors as SMBs, home offices and mobile workers. LifeSize on Oct. 5 will launch its Passport telepresence offering, which company officials say […]

Unisys is looking to make it easier for businesses to support the growing number of mobile consumer devices being used by today’s tech-savvy workers. Increasingly, employees are bringing to work a host of mobile wireless devices, such as smartphones, that are not issued by the company, raising concerns over security, support and costs. Unisys Sept. […]

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out a host of new solutions, services and financing options designed to help SMBs take advantage of the anticipated rebound in the economy. The new offerings, announced Sept. 29, touch on SMB needs around such issues as security, risk management, productivity, cost reduction and energy efficiency. The offerings are part of HP’s […]

Dell is rolling out an entry-level design workstation powered by the latest processors from Intel and offering a choice of graphics cards from Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia. The single-socket Precision T1500 also is certified by Autodesk to run the AutoCAD design software. “This is primarily targeted at the SMB type of customer, and especially […]

Recent upward revisions by the federal government in data surrounding IT spending for 2007 and 2008 indicated that the industry last year was on the verge of another boom until the economy collapsed in September, according to analyst firm Forrester Research. However, the flip side to the federal Department of Commerce raising the amount that […]

Xerox’s proposed $6.4 billion acquisition of business process outsourcer Affiliated Computer Services is the latest example of a major hardware vendor looking to enlarge its business footprint by increasing its services capabilities. Xerox’s ACS deal, announced Sept. 28, comes just over a week after Dell said it is buying Perot Systems for $3.9 billion, and […]

Dell, Asus, Toshiba Embrace Intels Quad-core Core i7 Mobile Chips by Jeffrey Burt Chip and Chip Set Mooly Eden, vice president and general manager of Intel’s PC Client Group, holds up Intel’s new Core i7 processor and “Ibex Peak” chip set during a press briefing at IDF. On the Go The mobile Core i7 chips […]

Nvidia is working with Microsoft to expand the reach of its graphics processing technologies into high-performance computing space. Nvidia officials announced Sept. 28 that their engineers are collaborating with their Microsoft counterparts to tout the use of their Tesla GPUs in HPC environments that use Microsoft’s Windows HPC Server 2008 OS. The move is part […]

Hewlett-Packard is adding security and high-availability enhancements to its HP-UX 11i v3 operating system. The enhancements-which also extend to HP’s Serviceguard high-availability software-are part of regular updates HP brings to the Unix OS every six months or so between major upgrades, which come every three to four years, Brian Cox, worldwide director of business critical […]

BMC Software officials expect that mainframes will play a significant role for businesses as the economy crawls out from under the worldwide recession. BMC on Sept. 29 will release the results of a survey of 1,500 global mainframe users that officials say indicate that enterprises are looking to the systems to help modernize applications, eliminate […]