Jeff Burt

The worldwide server market continued to decline in the second quarter as the IT industry struggled with the effects of the global recession, according research firm Gartner. The quarterly report by the Gartner analysts issued Sept. 2 echoed what their counterparts at IDC found in a similar study published earlier in the day: that businesses […]

Mellanox Technologies and Blade Network Technologies are pushing the virtualization capabilities in their respective networking offerings. At the first two days of the VMworld 2009 show in San Francisco, Mellanox unveiled new capabilities in its VirtualConnectX networking offering, which offers support for multiple networking, operating system and virtualization solutions. On Sept. 1, Mellanox announced its […]

The rate of adoption of server virtualization technologies is growing rapidly in businesses large and small, though security concerns remain the largest hurdle to deployment, according to a recent survey by identify and access management vendor Centrify. In a survey of 480 IT professionals released Sept. 1, Centrify found that almost 26 percent of those […]

Dell is partnering with networking specialist Brocade Communications Systems and automation software vendor Scalent Systems to develop a unified data center solution to compete with those from such rivals as Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard. Dell officials on Sept. 2 are set to announce the partnerships that will include the OEM branding Brocade networking technologies and […]

3Com, which jumped back into the enterprise networking business in May, is now looking to bring greater security into that area of the data center. 3Com Aug. 31 announced that it is rolling out a host of security solutions that leverages its TippingPoint security technologies and H3C networking products to enable businesses to create a […]

Citrix Systems is bringing high-end graphics capabilities to its XenDesktop virtualization offering. Citrix on Aug. 31 is unveiling its HDX 3D feature for high-end graphics users-such as engineers, scientists, and research and development professionals-joining other offerings in such areas as multimedia and collaboration in the company’s HDX line, which is designed to improve the end-user […]

Advanced Micro Devices is introducing an energy-efficient EE version of its six-core “Istanbul” Opteron processor. AMD is targeting its 40-watt Opteron chip at two-socket servers for dense computing environments, cloud computing platforms and Web 2.0 applications, Jeff Jenkins, director of server product marketing at AMD, said in an interview. “They’re looking for price/performance per watt,” […]

With the adoption of server, desktop and application virtualization gaining ground in enterprises, a host of vendors are looking for ways to help companies manage their growing virtualized environments. Many of these vendors-including Kace, Vizioncore, Reflex Systems and Sychron-are unveiling new offerings at the VMworld 2009 show, which runs Aug. 31-Sept. 3 in San Francisco. […]

OpSource wants to give enterprises the chance to run private cloud computing environments on a public cloud platform. At the upcoming VMworld 2009 show in San Francisco, OpSource will unveil its OpSource Cloud, a platform officials say will bring the security enterprises are demanding to a public cloud environment. VMworld runs Aug. 31-Sept. 3. Currently […]

Citrix Systems and Xen.org are going to use the first day of VMware’s VMworld 2009 show to announce a plan to take on the virtualization giant in the cloud. Citrix and Xen.org will announce that they will expand their reach beyond the Xen virtualization hypervisor by developing a full-blown cloud computing platform that will rival […]

Just over a month after reporting relatively strong second-quarter financial numbers, Intel Aug. 28 announced that it is raising its expectations for the third quarter. Intel officials said that given the unexpected demand for processors and chipsets, they were predicting revenues for the current quarter to come in between $8.8 billion and $9.2 billion. They […]

IBM officials will unveil new server and networking technologies at the VMworld 2009 show, and will also outline a technology developed with VMware to help businesses keep tabs on the energy efficiency of platforms and workloads. VMworld runs Aug. 31-Sept. 4 in San Francisco. IBM will officially announce the latest version of its iDataPlex server […]