Jeff Burt

Intel has introduced a new calculator on its Website for IT administrators that lets them determine the performance and efficiency of their servers. The tool, on the Intel Premiere IT Professional site, also lets IT folks find out what their server performance and efficiency could be if they made changes to the systems, such as […]

Micron Technology is developing technology designed to increase server memory capacity and improve performance. Micron officials July 30 announced the company is producing DDR3 LRDIMMs (load-reduced, dual-inline memory modules) that they say will give servers using the technology up to 57 percent better bandwidth and three times the memory capacity of current servers. And that […]

Intel is investing $10 million in five companies that are developing clean technologies. At its Technology Innovation Summit July 29, Intel announced that through Intel Capital, the chip maker’s investment arm, it was investing in four U.S. companies and a fifth one based in Ireland. “The global nature of these five investments demonstrates our focus […]

Researchers at a university in England will be able to use an IBM supercomputer that will rank among the top 100 fastest systems in the world. The University of Southampton and OCF, an integrator and IBM partner in England, announced an agreement July 30 in which OCF will build an IBM supercomputer for the university’s […]

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, already offering a line of 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches, is moving downstream. Fujitsu July 28 rolled out 24- and 48-port 1Gb/10GbE switches designed to give businesses a migration path from 1GbE to 10GbE, and to enable them to integrate their 1GbE traffic into 10GbE networks. Fujitsu has been offering 10GbE […]

GlobalFoundries, the spinoff company from Advanced Micro Devices, will manufacture processors for wireless and computer devices for STMicroelectronics. GlobalFoundries announced the deal with STMicroelectronics July 29, marking the first non-AMD customer for the young manufacturing company. The announcement came less than a week after GlobalFoundries and AMD-along with federal, state and local officials-broke ground July […]

Hyper9 officials want to give businesses better insight into their virtual environments. The company July 29 rolled out the second generation of its flagship Virtualization Optimization Suite-or VOS-which is designed to help businesses create virtual environments that are suitable to their business needs, according to Bill Kennedy, executive vice president of research and development for […]

Intel CEO Paul Otellini believes the national debate around health care reform needs to move away from doctors in hospital and toward individuals in their homes. Weighing in on the issue that is at the forefront of the Obama administration’s agenda, Otellini in an op-ed piece in Politico July 27 argued that the old way […]

Decreased spending by businesses on IT infrastructure could be an opportunity for software vendors, according to analyst firm Gartner. In a report released July 28, Gartner analysts said they expect businesses worldwide to increase their software spending in 2010, particularly in Latin America and the Asia/Pacific region. Much of that spending will come from savings […]

IBM is looking to add greater predictive analysis capabilities to its Information on Demand software through the $1.2 billion acquisition of longtime partner SPSS. IBM and SPSS made the announcement July 28. Officials with both companies say they expect the deal to close later this year, pending the approval of SPSS shareholders and federal regulators. […]

IBM’s proposed $1.2 billion acquisition of SPSS is the most significant piece in the puzzle-at least since the Cognos purchase in 2007-in the vendor’s push to give customers the tools they need to not only collect data but also to use it to their business advantage. It also puts software rivals such as Oracle, SAP […]

The dismantling of Nortel Networks is continuing, with Ericsson winning the auction for the bankrupt company’s wireless business for $1.13 billion and Research in Motion officials saying they are still interested in other Nortel assets. Ericsson won the bidding for Nortel’s CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) wireless business and LTE (Long Term Evolution) assets the […]