Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems is turning its vast networking expertise to the power industry, outlining a strategy to help utilities and their customers more efficiently manage power supplies and energy consumption. Cisco’s Smart Grid initiative, announced May 18, is designed to offer a communications fabric based on IP standards that would touch not only the companies that […]

Appro is rolling out a high-performance computing cluster that combines Intel’s Nehalem server chip and Nvidia’s Tesla graphics processor. Appro’s HyperPower Cluster, announced May 18, is the latest move by systems makers to pull together CPUs and GPUs to offer improved computing performance at lower costs and with greater energy efficiency. “There’s always been a […]

Napatech is unveiling an in-line network adapter that it says will let users better monitor and analyze the increasingly important 10G-bps traffic running over the network. Napatech is demonstrating the NT20E In-Line Adapter at the Interop show in Las Vegas, which is running May 17 to 21. According to officials with Napatech, the NT20E, a […]

Motorola is looking to give enterprises an alternative to traditional network solutions with an all-fiber offering that officials say will improve performance and reliability while reducing costs. Motorola will show off its POL (Passive Optical LAN) at the Interop IT expo in Las Vegas, which runs May 17 to 21. In addition, Motorola officials announced […]

Amazon Web Services is launching a number of new features for its cloud computing environment designed to make it easier for customers to manage their use of the compute resources. The features announced May 18 range from new abilities for scaling the compute resources on Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) to balancing the workloads across […]

IT organizations are facing the growing challenge of how to address the demands of increasing numbers of younger, tech-savvy and mobile workers, according to a Forrester Research analyst. Analyst Benjamin Gray said these new employees, who are a growing presence in the work force as they replace the retiring baby boomers, expect more out of […]

Dell engineers, tasked with creating a server that offered full functionality but that could fit into highly dense Web hosting environments, are turning to Via Technologies to power the systems. Dell is preparing to roll out the XS11-VX8, code-named Fortuna, which is powered by Via’s Nano processor and aimed at Web hosting companies that tend […]

Opalis Software wants to make it easier for businesses to manage the cloud computing resources they use in Amazon’s EC2 environment. Opalis May 13 announced the beta of its Cloud LCM (life-cycle management) offering, which is designed to give IT administrators greater control over those resources in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, one of the […]

Struggling computing giant NEC is dropping out of a program backed by the Japanese government to build the fastest supercomputer in the world. NEC’s announcement May 14 that it was exiting the Next-Generation Supercomputer Project to help cut costs during the global recession came two days after the company announced that it had lost more […]

Blade Network Technologies is preparing to roll out a new Ethernet switch that can be used for upcoming Fibre Channel over Ethernet networking technologies, a step that company officials say is important as enterprises prepare for cloud computing. Officials said May 14 the 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch, aimed at IP SANs (storage-area networks) and virtualized […]

Darkstrand, a 3-year-old company looking to link enterprises with academic and research facilities, is teaming up with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center to give businesses on the Darkstrand Network access to the supercomputing capabilities at the center. In the collaboration deal announced May 14, businesses on Darkstrand’s network will get real-time access to PSC’s HPC (high-performance […]

Mellanox Technologies is rolling out a new networking device designed to meet the growing need for high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches in the data center. Mellanox May 13 unveiled PhyX, a high-density, multiprotocol device that offers six channels in a single device, giving IT administrators greater flexibility with their 10GbE switches. The announcement comes a […]