Jeff Burt

Systems maker Appro is adding to its Go-Green technology initiative with the GreenBlade System, designed to make it easier for businesses to scale up their computing environments while reducing power costs and data center floor space. The blade architecture, announced Feb. 17, offers a variety of energy-efficient features aimed at driving down operational costs and […]

10 Desktops and Laptops That Wont Break Your IT Budget by Jeffrey Burt Acer Veriton M460 Acer’s business desktop comes with the Microsoft Windows Vista Business operating system, an option of three Intel Core Duo 2 chips and up to 2GB of DDR2 (double data rate 2) memory, with a starting price of $460. Acer […]

At BMC Software, older corporate desktops and laptops are given new life. They’re rehabbed and repurposed, handed down to other employees or put into test and development roles. “We basically recycle computers,” said Jim Grant, senior vice president of strategy and corporate development at BMC. “We manage them as corporate assets. … We take older […]

Health care professionals for years have been pushing for more efficient, cost-effective and environmentally friendly ways to access their medical images. The days of paper reports and film are slowly giving way to new computer-based digital imaging capabilities. However, most of these processes require systems especially made for receiving the images-ranging from X-rays to CT […]

So Transmeta is up for sale, a move reported by eWEEK’s Scott Ferguson and one that will mark the end of an innovative processor company that turned its attention to battery life and energy consumption several years before “green IT” became a popular industry phrase. The move can’t be considered unexpected, and it won’t create […]

There’s little doubt that the budget standoff in California between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and State Controller John Chiang comes down to politics. But it also raises the issue of older legacy technology, and how long is too long to hang onto it. It also highlights the importance of initiatives from vendors like IBM, which is […]

Vonage is rolling out its Vonage Pro VOIP offering designed to enable mobile workers and home workers bring their phone systems with them on the road. Vonage Pro includes the next-generation Vonage SoftPhone client, called Vonage Companion, which lets users access their home numbers from any desktop with a high-speed Internet connection. Vonage Companion also […]

The folks at Riverbed Technology had a problem. The company, which makes WAN optimization solutions and shipped its first product in 2004, has always had a particular focus in dealing with Microsoft applications. It’s been a good relationship and a key in helping Riverbed grow its customer base, which is now up to about 4,500. […]

Much of the debate about Kevin Johnson has been focused on his departure from Microsoft, a key part of the software giant’s latest reorganization as it tries to figure out how to compete against Google. However, Microsoft’s loss could be a huge gain for networking hardware maker Juniper Networks, where Johnson will land as its […]

Google reportedly is poised to grab another chunk of the Internet, and once again it would be at Microsoft’s expense. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, citing undisclosed sources, says the search giant, which already played a significant role in thwarting Microsoft’s plans to buy Yahoo, is ready to grab user-generated news site Digg for about $200 […]

Yahoo executives and outspoken activist investor Carl Icahn may have reached a https://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search/Yahoo-and-Icahn-Settle-Microsoft-Deal-Adrift/compromise that will help them avoid what promised to be an ugly and protracted proxy battle for control of Yahoo’s Board of Directors, but don’t think that’s going to keep Icahn from pushing forward his agenda, which has included ousting CEO Jerry Yang […]

It’d be difficult to imagine a more stark contrast in financial numbers between industry rivals than what we saw this week with Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. Actually, AMD and anyone else in the tech industry, for that matter. Intel, already in the news for launching its Centrino 2 mobile platform, announced July 15 that […]