Jeff Burt

VMware is offering discounts on products, including its new vSphere 4 virtualization platform, to customers of Virtual Iron, the virtualization company bought by Oracle in May. VMware on June 7 unveiled what it calls “safe passage” to Virtual Iron customers in the wake of reports that Oracle will shut down development of existing Virtual Iron […]

EMC, given the green light by federal regulators to pursue its acquisition of Data Doman, is upping its bid for the storage deduplication company. EMC is growing its offer for Data Domain by more than 11 percent, to about $2.1 billion, in a bid to push the issue and to thwart an attempt by rival […]

CA is looking to make it easier for enterprises to manage their virtualized data centers and cloud computing environments by enhancing the capabilities of several software solutions to support VMware’s vSphere 4 virtualization platform and virtualized network switches from Cisco Systems. CA announced July 6 that is expanding the reach of its Spectrum Infrastructure Manager, […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials are keeping the spotlight on the issues of performance per watt and compatibility with their latest quad-core Opteron chip. The latest Opteron 1000 Series chip-code-named “Suzuka”-is designed for use in cloud computing environments, Web servers, small business servers and workstations, where the concern is more about power consumption and cost rather […]

Sun Microsystems’ VirtualBox virtualization platform is now ready for the data center. VirtualBox 3.0, released by Sun June 30, can now run multiprocessor virtual machines for high-end workloads, according to company officials. Where the product in the past could only run on a single x86 processor, the new version can host up to 32 virtual […]

Cisco Systems and VMware are developing ways that enterprises can use VMware’s VMotion technology to move live virtual machines from one data center to another. The two companies showed off a proof-of-concept at the Cisco Live 2009 show in San Francisco, and demonstrated the capabilities during Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior’s keynote address July 2. The […]

IBM is offering special financing for its System x family of servers that are bundled with VMware’s vSphere 4 virtualization platform in a move that aims to make it easier for businesses to bring virtualization into their data centers. The financing plan, which essentially trades hefty up-front costs for more manageable monthly payments and can […]

Hewlett-Packard, which already has outfitted several ProLiant G6 servers with Advanced Micro Devices’ “Istanbul” Opteron processor, is now offering a workstation powered by the six-core chip. The HP xw9400 workstation, announced July 1, is aimed at such high-end applications as engineering, 3-D digital content creation, oil and gas, and science, according to company officials. AMD’s […]

As it is doing with its Smart Grid initiative, Cisco Systems is looking to use its networking expertise to improve energy efficiency in offices and other commercial buildings. At the Cisco Live event in San Francisco July 1, company officials unveiled its Smart Connected Buildings program, part of a larger initiative called Smart+Connected Communities. Cisco […]

Cisco Systems has a number of projects under way that bring together its myriad products to create products to help businesses get more done, more efficiently, according to the company’s CTO. Speaking at the Cisco Live event in San Francisco July 1, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior said enterprises are looking to technology suppliers less for […]

The first half of 2009 was a brutal one for the IT sector in the United States and throughout the world, but that could translate into good things for later this year and into 2010, according to Forrester Research. In a report issued June 29 titled “U.S. and Global IT Market Outlook: Q2 2009,” Forrester […]

Unisys is looking to carve a spot for itself in the heavily competitive cloud computing space by removing what company officials say is the top impediment to adoption: security. Unisys June 30 unveiled a cloud computing strategy that relies heavily on a patent-pending security technology officials call Stealth, which the company initially created several years […]