Jeff Burt

As virtualization becomes more mainstream in corporate data centers, businesses are looking for better and easier ways to manage these environments. Adoption of the technology continues to grow as users see benefits ranging from greater hardware utilization to server consolidation, reduced system costs and greater energy efficiency. “We know how to virtualize,” said Ed Baldwin, […]

IBM is introducing a product designed to make it easier to see who is using resources in distributed and virtualized environments. The Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager is a Web-based tool that can track the usage of the resources and bill accordingly. The software will help fuel the adoption of virtualization technology, said Pete McCaffrey, […]

Sun Microsystems and Canonical are going to help each other expand the reach of their respective products. The two companies on May 30 officially announced that UK-based Canonicals Ubuntu Linux distribution will support Suns UltraSPARC T1 platform. The vendors took the stage two weeks ago at Suns quarterly product rollout and said that such an […]

For the past seven years, power management technology company ISR has been selling its SprayCool product to government agencies looking to reduce the heat generated by their servers. Now, with rising power and cooling costs becoming a growing concern among corporate data centers, the Liberty Lake, Wash., company is hoping enterprises will take to spraying […]

The numbers in the Unix market may be flat, but Hewlett-Packard sees a bright future for its HP-UX operating system. The Palo Alto, Calif., company this fall will release HP-UX 11i v3—the first major revamp of the OS in three years—with enhancements in its virtualization and automation capabilities, according to Don Jenkins, vice president of […]

The first quarter was a slow one for the global server market, with shipments rising modestly but revenue remaining relatively flat, according to two analyst companies. Both IDC and Gartner pointed to the push by companies to align their IT infrastructure with their business demands, including consolidating resources in their data centers in an effort […]

OEMs are taking advantage of the availability of Intels latest Xeon DP processors to bring new features to their x86 server lines. IBM is offering its PowerExecutive in its line of System x servers, starting with new machines announced May 23 that will be armed with Intels dual-core “Dempsey” processor. At the same time, Hewlett-Packard […]

Microsoft announced that it will have a beta version of its upcoming hypervisor virtualization technology ready by the end of 2006, and will release to manufacturing a final version within six months of the release of its Windows Server “Longhorn” operating system RTM. Microsoft made the announcements May 22 during the first day of its […]

Dell is bringing the OpenManage systems management features found in other hardware components into its printer line. Dell, which already offers OpenManage management software for its servers, client devices and networking gear, unveiled on May 22 several new printers that will come with its new OpenManage Printer Manager software. The new Web-based tool aims to […]

Microsoft is ramping its efforts to grow traction in the increasingly competitive server virtualization space, touting the newly released Virtual Server 2005 R2 and describing its first hypervisor technology, due in the next year or so. But rivals such as VMware and analysts are claiming that Microsoft is too far behind to catch up soon. […]

ClearCube Technology wants to make it easier for enterprises to manage their server-based computing environments. The Austin, Texas, company this summer is rolling out Sentral 5.0, which wraps under one umbrella several of ClearCubes management software modules and makes them a better fit for larger businesses and virtualized desktops, according to officials. “Its now one […]

Microsoft is ramping up its efforts to grow traction in the increasingly competitive server virtualization space, touting the newly released Virtual Server 2005 R2 and describing its first hypervisor technology, due in 2007 or so. But rivals such as VMware and analysts are claiming that the company is too far behind to catch up anytime […]