Jeff Burt

Fujitsu is looking to increase its share of the x86 server space against rival vendors such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, and sees its new Primergy BX900 blade server system as a big step in that direction. Fujitsu, which is aiming for worldwide x86 systems sales of 500,000 in 2010, on May 11 rolled out […]

Two years ago, when Chris O’Malley spoke at the CA World conference about mainframes, there were fewer than 150 people in attendance. A year later, in November 2008, when O’Malley, executive vice president and general manager of CA’s Mainframe Business Unit, again spoke at CA World, 550 people crammed into a room that held 450, […]

Nvidia is rolling out the latest version of its CUDA Toolkit and its software development kit, which includes support for Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 operating system. The May 8 release of CUDA Toolkit 2.2 and SDK was the latest in a string of product announcements made the same week the graphics chip maker said it […]

Brocade is launching an alliance program designed to extend the reach of its networking technologies through partnerships. The Brocade Technology Alliance Partner Program, or TAPP, is aimed at creating new business opportunities through the joint development of customized solutions and interoperability with partner products, according to Brocade officials. The partner program was announced May 7. […]

Just days after launching a preconfigured graphics-based supercomputing cluster, Nvidia announced that it is partnering with Dell to offer workstations powered by Nvidia’s Tesla GPU technology. Nvidia and Dell said May 7 that Dell is offering the Tesla C1060 GPU Computing Processor in its Precision R5400, T5500 and T7500 workstations, a move officials with both […]

The way Dirk Meyer sees it, things are breaking just right in 2009 for Advanced Micro Devices. Meyer, president and CEO of AMD, told company stockholders during their annual meeting May 7 that the global recession was forcing businesses and consumers to become more conscious about how they spend their money, which plays into one […]

Advanced Micro Devices is folding its ATI graphics unit into the overall business, creating a new organization model designed to help push through plans to integrate its CPU and GPU technologies. AMD announced the reorganization May 6, creating four operating units around products, future development, marketing and sales. As part of the move, Randy Allen, […]

The current question of which Intel processors support the XP Mode feature in Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 operating system shines a light on a relatively rare issue involving processor-OS compatibility. Windows 7’s XP Mode will let users run Windows XP-based applications in the Enterprise, Professional and Ultimate versions of the new operating system. The offering […]

Vizioncore is looking to bring self-service capabilities to virtualization. Vizioncore’s new vControl management tool, announced May 5, is designed to let end users provision virtual machines themselves, offloading such tasks from IT administrators. With end users doing the provisioning and deploying of the virtual machines, IT administrators are free to manage the VMs through a […]

A month after launching the company with a policy-based management appliance for virtualized environments, officials at HyTrust are now looking to build a community among its customers. HyTrust May 5 announced that it is releasing a free community edition of its namesake appliance, aimed at giving SMBs a cost-effective way to get into virtualization and […]

Hyperformix wants to make it easier for businesses to plan out their virtual environments. Hyperformix is making enhancements to its Capacity Manager and Data Manager offerings that are designed to not only enable enterprises to more effectively map out the performance and capacity needs of their virtualization initiatives, but also to budget for the IT […]

Cloud computing and utility computing vendor 3Tera is adding greater management capabilities to its AppLogic platform through a partnership with Tap In Systems. 3Tera is integrating Tap In Systems’ CMS (Cloud Management Service) into the standard AppLogic catalog of virtual appliances, which will enable AppLogic users to enhance their monitoring capabilities for critical alerts, system […]