Jeff Burt

BOSTON-As John Fowler sees it, the future of enterprise data storage and computing lies in solid state disks. Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Sun Microsystems, and other company executives on June 4 are announcing that OEMs will integrate SSDs (solid state disks) with the bulk of its hardware and software offerings, and will […]

Microsoft wants to help small companies run their businesses more efficiently. But that efficiency is going to come at a price. The software giant on May 13 unveiled Windows Essential Server Solutions, packaged offers for SMBs (small and mid-sized businesses) designed to help businesses that tend to have small IT staff improve efficiency and increase […]

Microsoft in 2000 rolled out its Operation Manager software with the goal of bringing the same management strengths the company had in desktop environments to Windows-based data centers. Now company officials are looking to continue expanding those capabilities to include virtualized and non-Microsoft environments. At its Microsoft Management Summit April 29 in Las Vegas, Bob […]

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie touched off more than a month of speculation, debate, hand-wringing and questioning when he took the stage at the company’s MIX 08 conference March 5 and talked briefly about Microsoft’s vision of a “mesh” though which all devices can be connected. In the weeks since, company officials have fed […]

Tom Noonan, the president and CEO of Internet Security Services who oversaw the company’s acquisition by IBM in 2006 for $1.3 billion, has stepped down from the job. Noonan resigned the post the week of Feb. 11 for personal reasons and will be replaced by Val Rahmani, a longtime IBM executive, according to a company […]

It was in 2006 that officials at Rackspace Managed Hosting looked across the Atlantic and saw what their counterparts in the United Kingdom were doing. Rackspace operates a sales and support office as well as four data centers in England. To offset the carbon emissions created by the technology, the Rackspace operation in England had […]

Henri Richard knew the window of opportunity was going to close fairly quickly. For almost six years, Richard worked for Advanced Micro Devices and became one of the companys higher profile executives during the chip makers resurgence that started with the launch of the Opteron processor in 2003. Now, in 2007, Richard, chief marketing and […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—When blade technologist Ken Baker takes a look around the industry, he sees a lot of pieces in place already to make data centers energy efficient. Chip makers are rolling out multicore processors that offer higher performance without spikes in power consumption, OEMs are using a combination of hardware and software features to make […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Top-tier OEMS continue to push their technology down to the smallest businesses as they try to expand the reach of their portfolios. IBM on April 10 rolled out two new System i Express servers and a new pricing plan—and highlighted a partner program—as it attempts to carve out space in a market traditionally dominated […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—IBM is looking to use its System i platform to get a foothold among the smallest of businesses, a market traditionally dominated by x86 servers running Microsoft Windows applications. At an event here April 10, IBM officials, along with a number of customers and partners, unveiled two new entry-level System i servers—both of which […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Master data management is gaining traction as companies continue to look for new ways to keep data safe, while also allowing access for those who need to view it. Without customer and supply data that is at all times accurate and updated, an enterprise will only spin its wheels. MDM and CDI (customer data […]

WIKIS Publisher kicking off first wiki-based novel So youve thought about trying to write a novel but cant seem to get going on it, huh? Well, publisher Penguin Books—and hundreds or thousands of other people around the world—are going to help you, and, in turn, you can help them. Penguin Books is using wiki software—the […]