Jeff Burt

IBM wants to make it easier for midmarket companies to take advantage of the growing trend toward more dynamic infrastructures. IBM May 5 announced a host of hardware and software offerings designed to enable midmarket IT administrators to create a more dynamic infrastructure environment, make better business decisions and improve energy efficiency. The offerings touch […]

Juniper Networks is expanding its networking offerings for distributed environments. Juniper May 4 announced additions to its SRX Series Services Gateways as well as a new line of Ethernet switches. The new offerings are part of the Juniper Networks Distributed Enterprise Solutions portfolio, which also includes the company’s Network and Security Manager and Junos Software. […]

Stratus Technologies is adding business continuity, disaster recovery and administrative enhancements to its Avance high-availability software. Stratus on May 4 is rolling out the latest version of Avance, which the company introduced a year ago to give SMBs a highly available virtualized environment platform for their x86 systems. The software offers several advantages over cluster […]

Apparent Networks is taking many of the features found in its high-end, enterprise-level network performance management software and packaging it into a single-user license. Apparent Networks May 4 is rolling out PathView, which offers network engineers a tool available over the Web that brings them the same capabilities-though with some limitations in such areas as […]

Supermicro is putting Intel’s Atom processor into several new systems in its Server Building Blocks Solutions portfolio. The new Supermicro systems-which, while their main thrust is as servers, can be customized as motherboards as well-will use the 4-watt and 8-watt Atom chips. Intel has been riding the strength of its Atom chips in the netbook […]

Nvidia is looking to make it easier for researchers and IT administrators to add computing capability to their data centers while keeping down energy consumption. Nvidia and about 20 of its partners May 4 launched the Tesla GPU Preconfigured Cluster, an off-the-shelf system that Nvidia officials said provides up to 30 times more performance than […]

The market for green IT services, fueled by the push by businesses to save money and improve efficiencies, could grow by as much as 60 percent a year over the next four years, according to a report from Forrester Research. The market could grow from about $450 million in 2008 to $4.8 billion in 2013 […]

Advanced Micro Devices is kicking off a yearlong celebration of its 40th year in existence with a contest that asks users to show their affection for the company on video and in photos. AMD turns 40 May 1. “Forty years in any industry is a major achievement, but doing so in the rapidly changing, competitive […]

RingCube Technologies is rolling out the next generation of its vDesk desktop virtualization technology, including a new feature designed to improve the manageability and security around the offering. RingCube’s vDesk 2.0, announced May 1, includes the company’s WVE (Workspace Virtualization Engine), which company officials say is a key differentiator in a highly competitive field that […]

The consolidation trend in the enterprise data center space is continuing, with QLogic officials saying it will pay $21 million for rival NetXen. QLogic’s announcement, made April 30 during its fourth-quarter earnings announcement, came a week after Broadcom went public with its $764 million hostile takeover bid for Emulex. In a conference call with analysts […]

A bankruptcy court in New York has given Rackable Systems the OK to buy all the assets of SGI, though for a higher price than originally offered. Rackable initially had offered $25 million, but the court bumped the price up to $42.5 million. In addition, Rackable will have to assume SGI’s liabilities. The approval by […]

IBM wants to make it easier for businesses to extend their SOA investments into the cloud. IBM on April 30 rolled out a new hardware appliance and a new virtualization-focused version of its WebSphere Application Server that, together, give enterprises a smooth path for bringing their service-oriented architecture work into private cloud environments. The new […]