Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard has appointed a new chief ethics and compliance officer in the wake of the controversy surrounding its investigation into news leaks over the past two years. Jon Hoak, former senior vice president and general counsel for NCR, is replacing Kevin Hunsaker, one of five people charged in California last week with four felonies in […]

Its time for VMware to have real competition in the x86 virtualization space, claim Virtual Iron officials—and they believe they can fill that role. The Lowell, Mass., company on Oct. 11 is releasing Version 3.0 of its namesake virtualization platform, an offering that is based on the Xen open-source hypervisor, supports Intels on-chip virtualization technology […]

Blade server vendor Verari Systems is rolling out an enhanced version of its Verari Command Center, the latest step by the company to create a suite of hardware and software offerings designed to create flexible and dynamic data centers. VCC 3.0, announced Oct. 10, enables users to gather data—including power status, system temperature and overall […]

The industry is getting a glimpse of the not-so-distant future for microprocessors. At the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, Calif., Oct. 10, engineers from Advanced Micro Devices, IBM, Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems will give presentations about their new generation of processors that will be released in 2007. Key to all the work being done is […]

BladeLogic is looking to bring greater integration of management software in the data center. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Oct. 9 in Orlando, Fla., the company is unveiling its BladeLogic Orchestration Manager, which is designed to work as the bond that ties the disparate software products from different vendors that many customers run in their data […]

One of the knocks against the idea of bladed PCs has been the high cost. ClearCube Technology may finally have solved that. The Austin, Texas, company on Oct. 2 unveiled a new offering, the A Series PC blade, which cuts the entry cost for businesses in half. “Weve finally been able to break that price […]

The next stop for Patricia Dunn and four others involved in the controversy surrounding Hewlett-Packards hunt for a news leak may be a California courtroom. A week after appearing before a Congressional subcommittee in Washington, Dunn, the former chairwoman of HPs board of directors, was indicted by the California State Attorney Generals office Oct. 4 […]

IBM will spend $100 million over the next five years to make the mainframe easier to use. The program will focus on such areas as greater automation, modernizing the user interface and easing the way users manage the software on the machines. It kicked off Oct. 4 with the release of the new z/OS V1.8 […]

IBM is rolling out new PowerPC processors aimed at the embedded space that are designed to improve performance while consuming less power than their counterparts. The new chips illustrate IBMs commitment to building processors that do not rely solely on speed bumps for performance improvements, but also are energy-efficient, said Ron Martino, director of Power […]

One of the knocks against the idea of bladed PCs has been the high costs. ClearCube Technology may finally have that solved. The Austin, Texas, company on Oct. 2 is unveiling a new offering, the A Series PC blades, which drops the entry point for businesses in half. “Weve finally been able to break that […]

Grid product vendor Voltaire and uXcomm, which develops systems management platforms for systems and device manufacturers, are introducing new products designed to create more flexible data centers. Voltaire on Sept. 25 unveiled its GridVision Enterprise product, which officials at the Billerica, Mass., company call the missing link in the provisioning and managing of scalable grids. […]

With virtualization becoming more mainstream in the enterprise, businesses now are looking for easier and more flexible ways to deploy and manage their environments. VMware, Cassatt and Surgient are rolling out offerings designed to address those demands. The moves come at a time when enterprises are beginning to move their virtualization environments from testing to […]