Jeff Burt

Sun Microsystems wants to bring more software developers onto its hosted grid initiative. At its JavaOne conference in San Francisco May 18, Sun is unveiling a host of programs designed to entice developers to build and offer their applications on the Sun Grid Compute Utility, a massive collection of Sun Grid servers that is open […]

Hewlett-Packard is consolidating its 85 data centers worldwide into six centers in the United States, a move the company said will save $1 billion in IT costs over the next few years and give it a chance to showcase its adaptive infrastructure capabilities. The data centers will be spread between three cities, with two facilities […]

The second quarter was a good one for Hewlett-Packard, with strong revenue growth of 5 percent, higher-than-expected profits of $1.7 billion and a prediction for the current quarter that also exceeds what financial analysts are expecting. Yet despite all that, much of the focus of industry observers during HPs quarterly earnings call May 16 was […]

IBM on May 10 unveiled a host of features and offerings aimed at making it easier for small and midsize businesses to adopt blade servers. Among the offerings are a low-priced, entry-level networking switch for the companys BladeCenter systems; integration with IBMs System i servers; and financing options. Kelly Quinn, an analyst at IDC, said […]

Proponents of Intels 64-bit Itanium chip see Linux as a key growth driver for the architecture and are looking at ways to enhance the chip and the systems that run on it to make them more attractive to Linux users. At the same time, companies that support the chip are rolling out programs aimed at […]

Sun Microsystems is merging its SPARC and x86 server groups and is naming a new head of its storage business, the latest in a series of moves that included the naming of Jonathan Schwartz as CEO. John Fowler, who had been executive vice president of Suns Network Systems Group—its family of servers powered by Advanced […]

IBM, which already has four of the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world, is working with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to create the fastest machine in an educational institution. IBM and Rensselaer announced May 10 a $100 million partnership to build a supercomputing center on the schools campus and Rensselaer Technology Park, both in Troy, N.Y. […]

IBM is offering a software package that can turn an enterprise IT infrastructure into a grid environment, giving users greater flexibility in the use of its resources and protecting it against failures. IBMs Batch-on-Grid software—which comprises new versions of the companys Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.3, Tivoli Workload Scheduler Load Leveler and Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator—can dynamically […]

IBM wants to entice more SMBs to take a look at its blade server offerings. The Armonk, N.Y., company on May 10 is unveiling a host of new features and offerings aimed at making it easier for small and midsize businesses to adopt blade servers, the fastest growing of all server form factors. Among the […]

Users of SAP applications looking for ways to improve manageability and reduce deployment times are getting help from the software maker as well as Sun Microsystems. The two companies are joining together to create the Sun N1 Advanced Architecture for SAP Solutions, designed to offer provisioning and management of SAP applications across heterogeneous environments from […]

Unisys is rolling out new products designed to add greater infrastructure flexibility and data protection to the data center, such as a new server that can simultaneously run on Itanium and Xeon chips. The company on May 9 also is unveiling enhancements to the Real-Time Capacity of its servers, which enables users to turn on […]

Silicon Graphics is filing for bankruptcy protection as it continues a reorganization designed to bring the struggling hardware maker back to financial health. The Mountain View, Calif., company on May 8 filed for Chapter 11 protection, saying it was a key step in the reorganization that is aimed at reducing SGIs debt by about $250 […]