Jeff Burt

At a time when 10 Gigabit Ethernet is making inroads into the data center, Juniper Networks is looking to the next step. Juniper is unveiling out what officials say is the world’s first 100GbE adapter, which will be delivered with the company’s T1600 Core Router later this year. Juniper officials, who announced the product June […]

NEWPORT, R.I.-As an analyst with Gartner, Dave Cappuccio has been in a lot of data centers. What Cappuccio sees is distressing. In many of those data centers, he sees inefficiencies in 40 to 50 percent of the operations, and that by doing things a little differently, those companies could save money. He also finds that […]

Intel has lost market share in the global microprocessor market for the first time in three quarters, according to research firm iSuppli. In numbers released June 9, iSuppli found that for the first time in three consecutive quarters, Intel’s market share declined by 2.5 percent, to 79.1 percent in the first quarter. During that same […]

Nortel Networks is enhancing its new vendor-agnostic communications platform, introduced earlier this year, with an application that enables users to give employees a single number that will reach them at any time on any device. Nortel officials, who announced the enhancements to their ACE (Agile Communication Environment) June 9, said the Hot Desking application in […]

VMware officials are touting the attention their desktop virtualization technology is getting from hospitals, which are using it to enable health care providers to more easily move from one patient to another and to streamline the tasks of upgrading applications and protecting data. VMware June 9 highlighted the work administrators at Norton Healthcare, St. Vincent’s […]

Video is going to be the primary driver behind a rapid increase in Internet traffic over the next five years, according to Cisco Systems. In Cisco’s annual VNI (Visual Networking Index) Forecast, released June 9, Cisco officials said the company expects IP network traffic to grow to five times its size between 2008 and 2013, […]

Sun Microsystems stockholders will vote next month on the proposed $7.4 billion acquisition by Oracle. Sun officials announced June 8 that the stockholder meeting will be July 16 at the company’s Santa Clara, Calif., campus. The deal, which would make Sun a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle, is expected to close sometime this summer, Sun […]

A month after unveiling an initiative aimed at enabling it to become a player in the data center Ethernet space, Voltaire is rolling out the first of its high-density Ethernet switches. Voltaire June 8 released the Vantage 8500, a scale-out Layer 2 core 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch that is aimed at enterprise data centers and […]

IBM is planning to roll out about 30 enhancements to a variety of software offerings for its System z platform in 2009, the latest move to extend the reach of IBM’s mainframe systems. IBM already has launched the first 12 of the enhancements, touching on Rational development tools, InfoSphere and Cognos data management products, WebSphere […]

NEWPORT, R.I.-In the past, American Power Conversion has addressed the needs of the SMB space through its channel partners. Now the IT power management company is looking to work directly with small and midsized businesses, and is rolling out a new enclosure designed to offer companies integrated cooling, power and sound-dampening capabilities. In addition, the […]

NEWPORT, R.I.-For the past several years, French energy management company Schneider Electric has aggressively built out its expertise through internal growth and external acquisitions. Its biggest step into data centers came in 2007 with its $6.1 billion purchase of APC (American Power Conversion), which makes power management supplies for IT environments. Schneider also offers devices […]

Hewlett-Packard is using the celebration of World Environment Day June 5 to tout its servers as alternatives to IBM’s mainframes. HP officials are saying their Itanium-based NonStop and Integrity servers and industry-standard ProLiant systems are the better environmental choice over mainframes, saving on power and cooling costs as well as floor space. “People are finding […]