Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard is enhancing its business automation software suite in hopes of making it easier for enterprises to manage their virtualized environments. HP on April 8 unveiled new features to its BSA (Business Service Automation) suite that touch upon the vendor-s Storage Essentials and Operations Orchestration offerings. In addition, HP also launched BSA Essentials, which is […]

IBM is going to use its green technology expertise to build an energy-efficient data center for an Australian university. Victoria University, in Melbourne, Australia, is contracting with IBM to design and build the school’s first green data center. University officials said they hope the move will save the school $300,000 in power costs over the […]

Advanced Micro Devices wants to make it easier for enterprises and resellers to stay with Opteron. AMD April 7 announced its Opteron Upgrade Program, which gives businesses and channel partners a 35 percent discount when they upgrade the generation of their Opteron chips. The program includes the dual-core 2000 series Opterons and 8000 series quad-core […]

Apple is rolling out an Xserve system powered by Intel’s new Nehalem EP processor, less than a week after speculation spread across Apple enthusiast Websites about the upgrade. Apple officials said the enhanced 1U Xserve, announced April 7, offers up to twice the performance and an 89 percent improvement in performance per watt, a key […]

A startup is looking to make virtual environments a little more secure and more manageable. HyTrust launched April 7 with a policy-based management appliance designed to ensure security and compliance in environments running VMware’s ESX servers and VirtualCenter management platform. HyTrust founder and CEO Eric Chiu said that while virtualization technology has brought a host […]

In the end, the move that makes the most sense for Sun Microsystems would be to be acquired by IBM. That’s according to analysts who have been watching the rollercoaster negotiations in IBM’s attempts to buy Sun for somewhere in the neighborhood of $7 billion. IBM reportedly pulled its offer from the table April 4 […]

Sun Microsystems is partnering with the federal government to help create a secure technology platform to connect federal health agencies and private heath institutions to the National Health Information Network. The goal of the NIHN, which has been under development for almost two years, is to offer a secure and efficient way to exchange health […]

Cloud computing will continue to gain acceptance, despite concerns around such issues as security, availability and functionality, according to research company iSuppli. iSuppli analysts, in a report issued April 3, said as dynamic, user-generated content becomes more commonplace on the Internet, the acceptance of cloud computing will grow along with it. To iSuppli, cloud computing […]

Cisco Systems is looking to improve communications capabilities for nurses. At the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference in Chicago April 6, Cisco unveiled its Cisco Nurse Connect solution, which integrates nurse call applications from third-party vendors with Cisco’s Unified Wireless IP 7925G phones that will enable nurses to send call alerts to caregivers. […]

Apple apparently gave customers a quick glimpse at plans to start selling Xserve servers powered by Intel’s new Nehalem EP processors. According to reports, Apple’s online store in Hong Kong April 2 offered a link designed to let customers preorder the 1U rack servers with the quad-core Xeon 5500 series chips that Intel unveiled March […]

Amazon Web Services is using the open-source Apache Hadoop distributed computing technology to make it easier for users to access large amounts of computing power to run data-intensive tasks. AWS (Amazon Web Services) April 2 announced the public beta of its Amazon Elastic MapReduce initiative, a service designed for businesses, researchers and analysts who have […]

Juniper Networks is unveiling StreamScope eRM, a tool that lets network administrators better monitor the quality of video streaming within the network. Introduced April 1, the StreamScope eRM monitoring and analysis product will be integrated into Juniper’s M and MX Series routers to improve the monitoring of video streaming by simplifying network design and operations […]