Jeff Burt

IBM and Cray continue to hold the top two spots on the list of the fastest supercomputers in the world. The Top500 list, to be released June 23 at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, has IBM’s Roadrunner supercomputer at the top for the second straight year. The BladeCenter compute cluster, running at the […]

Sun Microsystems is upgrading the capabilities of its 2-year-old Sun Constellation System supercomputer with enhanced networking, storage and software capabilities. Sun officials announced the new features June 23 at the International Supercomputing Conference, in Hamburg, Germany. Sun also will be demonstrating other HPC (high-performance computing) technologies at the show. Michael Brown, marketing manager for HPC […]

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out several new consulting services focusing on cloud computing. The services unveiled June 23 are part of a larger package of enterprise consulting services HP already has in place, including services designed to help businesses move into the cloud computing arena. HP also announced an online workshop starting in July to educate […]

IBM Roadrunner Dusts Cray Jaguar in World’s Fastest Supercomputer Race The Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was released June 23 at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Sitting atop the list–again–was IBM’s Roadrunner system, which runs at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory. The IBM BladeCenter system took the top […]

Mellanox Technologies and Voltaire are using the International Supercomputing Conference to announce the releases of their latest InfiniBand switches and management software. The competing InfiniBand vendors are both announcing June 22 the general availability of switches with up to 648 ports and management offerings designed to make it easier for IT administrators to implement and […]

Moka5 officials say the new MokaFive Suite 2.0 platform represents a turning point in desktop virtualization technology. Moka5 on June 22 announced Version 2.0 of its MokaFive Suite desktop-as-a-service platform, which not only lets businesses deliver a set and secure corporate desktop image to users’ desktops, but also lets those users safely customize their desktops […]

BEDFORD, Mass.-IBM’s $740 million purchase of MRO Software in 2006 wasn’t the highest profile acquisition the company has made. However, the asset management software company has found a home within IBM’s greater software universe, and is a key part of Big Blue’s “Smarter Planet” initiative, which essentially is about the ability to build greater intelligence […]

The worldwide PC market, hammered by the global recession, saw shipments drop by 8.1 percent in the first quarter, with netbooks being one of the few shining lights, according to research firm iSuppli. Overall, shipments of PCs fell from 72.3 million units in the first quarter of 2008 to 66.5 million shipments in the first […]

CA is continuing the drumbeat of mainframe computing, sponsoring a survey showing that enterprises are continuing to invest in running Linux on the platform. CA, which released the results of the survey June 17, found that of the 100 IT professionals at global enterprises contacted, 93 percent said they plan to either increase the use […]

To Ken Ziegler, president and chief operating officer at managed hosting provider Logicworks, moving into the cloud is just a natural extension for his company. That is the impetus behind Logicworks’ Private Cloud offering, which the company unveiled June 17. Based on VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure virtualization technology and its own management capabilities along with those […]

Hewlett-Packard’s 10-year alliance with telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent gives the technology giant another weapon in its data center competition against Cisco Systems. It’s also another step for HP as it tries to build up its cloud computing capabilities. HP and Alcatel-Lucent announced their alliance June 18, a move that HP officials say enables customers of […]

Citrix Systems is releasing the latest version of its XenServer platform, less than a month after rival VMware began shipping its vSphere 4.0 offering. XenServer 5.5 heightens Citrix’s competition with VMware, offering a host of new features, including consolidated backup, enhanced conversion and search tools, integration with Active Directory, and greater guest support for Microsoft’s […]