Jeff Burt

With networking leader Cisco Systems expanding its reach into the data center and the global recession pressuring enterprises to look at options, other networking companies are looking to gain traction in the highly competitive space. Blade Network Technologies is getting a boost from other tech companies, announcing Sept. 9 that Juniper Networks and NEC-along with […]

IBM ‘Stratus’ Supercomputer Is NOAA’s Newest Storm Chaser Small but Powerful According to NOAA officials, Stratus is 34 times more powerful than the most powerful supercomputer a decade ago, and can fit in a space half the size of a tennis court. Speed It would take a person with a calculator 3 million years to […]

Startup vendor Eucalyptus Systems, which has made a name for itself with open-source technology that enables enterprises to build an internal cloud computing environment that is compatible with Amazon’s EC2 public cloud offering, is launching its first commercial product that supports VMware’s virtualization technologies. Eucalyptus on Sept. 9 announced EEE (Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition), which lets […]

Advanced Micro Devices has plans for new PC and graphics offerings that will help the chip maker take advantage of what officials say are encouraging signs in the technology industry for later this year and into 2010. Speaking at the Citi Investment Global Technology Conference in New York City Sept. 9, AMD President and CEO […]

Nortel Networks, which has spent much of the year selling off portions of its business, regained its position at the top of a resurgent voice over IP market in the second quarter, according to analyst firm Dell’Oro Group. According to a Dell’Oro Group report issued Sept. 9, Nortel stood atop a VOIP market that saw […]

Intel is bringing its “Nehalem” chip architecture to the mainstream PC and low-end server spaces. Intel Sept. 8 unveiled its “Lynnfield” chips, including the first Core i5 processor. The new chips come almost a year after the chip maker rolled out the first of its Core i7 processors, which were aimed at the high-end PC […]

Dell is rolling out desktop PCs powered by Intel’s newest “Nehalem” processors. Dell on Sept. 8 unveiled the Studio XPS 8000 and XPS 9000 PCs aimed at gamers and users who need high-end multimedia capabilities. The systems run Intel’s quad-core Core i5 and newest Core i7 processors, which are based on the chip maker’s Nehalem […]

Globalfoundries is merging with Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing in a move that will create a major rival to the currently dominant Taiwan-based manufacturers. ATIC (Advanced Technology Investment Co.), which owns Globalfoundries, announced the $1.8 billion cash deal Sept. 8. ATIC officials said they intended to merge Chartered with Globalfoundries, a chip manufacturing business founded in March […]

It’s awash in billions of dollars of debt, has a high-profile but ineffective governor and has a Republican Party that continues to lose relevance in a state it once dominated. That’s California, where the battle to close a $26 billion budget gap got so bad that the state this summer had to start issuing IOUs […]

Oracle will have to wait through an in-depth investigation by the European Commission before it is able to close its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The EC, the antitrust investigative arm of the European Union, announced Sept. 2 that it planned to look deeper into the merger because of concerns around what it would […]

The global recession continued to batter the worldwide global market in the second quarter, but IDC analysts expect sales to pick up in the coming quarters. In numbers released Sept. 2, IDC found that second-quarter global server revenues declined 30 percent-to $9.8 billion-over the same period in 2008, while shipments fell 30.4 percent. The revenue […]

Toshiba is going big with its smallest hard drives. The company on Sept. 1 unveiled its MKxx65GSX 2.5-inch lineup of 2.5-inch hard disk drives that provide as much as 640GB of capacity. The 5,400-rpm HDDs are aimed at an array of computing models, including all-in-one desktops and highly energy-efficient PCs, according to Toshiba officials. The […]