Jeff Burt

Sun Microsystems is launching the second of its systems powered by its multicore UltraSPARC T1 processor and has taped out the chips successor, which is due to appear in systems in the second half of 2007. The Santa Clara, Calif., company released the first of the systems—the Sun Fire T2000—in November and said the T1000 […]

The fault-tolerant servers from NEC Solutions America—with their twin components that work in lockstep—were aimed at protecting businesses against unexpected system failures, according to officials. Now the Rancho Cordova, Calif., company is offering an option to its newest systems, the Express5800/320Ma, that will enable users to more easily manage their planned system upgrades. NEC on […]

Advanced Micro Devices is launching the last of its single-core Opteron processors, and both Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems are both offering systems running on the chips. AMD, of Sunnyvale, Calif., announced April 11 that the 256 and 856 models are immediately available, and the 156 will be ready within 30 days. The chips offer a […]

Sun Microsystems is undergoing another round of job cuts, this time within the division responsible for its SPARC servers. The Santa Clara, Calif., company is shedding 7 percent of the workforce in its Scalable Systems Group, which is responsible for its traditional SPARC server platforms, including the most recently released UltraSPARC T1 processor, formerly code-named […]

BOSTON—Penguin Computing officials say theyve been doing virtualization for several years through their cluster products, turning a group of individual physical machines into a virtual single server. Now the San Francisco company wants to expand its capabilities by offering a product that enables what most people think of virtualization: taking individual physical servers and partitioning […]

BOSTON—The paths for both Linux and virtualization, which have gained ground in the data center, are headed directly toward the client space, according to Dells top technology executive. In his keynote here at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Wednesday morning, Dell Chief Technology Officer Kevin Kettler said that, up to this point, most of the […]

Sun Microsystems has begun shipping its Opteron-based blade server aimed at the telecommunications industry, and will roll out blades running on its own UltraSPARC T1 processor by the end of the year. The Santa Clara, Calif., company is making the announcements Wednesday at the CTIA Wireless Conference in Las Vegas. Sun is looking to expand […]

Platform Computing is looking to partnerships with software vendors as a way of getting its grid computing products into enterprises. Enterprises tend to be more comfortable with packaged software offerings, so forming OEM partnerships with ISVs is the logical way to gain traction in those businesses, according to Platform Computing CEO Songnian Zhou. Zhou pointed […]

MPC Computers is adding a 2U iSCSI SAN device to its lineup of DataFrame storage offerings. MPC on April 4 rolled out the DataFrame 240 iSCSI storage area network, a 2U rack system that supports 12 hot-swappable 250GB Serial ATA II hard drives and offers up to 6TB of storage per enclosure. Officials with MPC, […]

Virtualization vendors will be aggressively courting the open-source community at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo this week in Boston. For several years, VMware was the only real game in town when it came to x86 virtualization. However, with more enterprises realizing the benefits of virtualization—from running multiple workloads on a single physical server to reduce […]

Systems makers are continuing to build off their hardware expertise to grow their comparatively small services businesses that, while nowhere near the size of those from IBM, Hewlett-Packard or Electronic Data Systems, still give their customers much-needed help and options. At its Stratus World show in Las Vegas March 26-28, Stratus Technologies announced its Solution […]

Virtual Iron Software and XenSource plan to rely on Xen 3.0 as their key to competing with virtualization giant VMware. At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo this week in Boston, both companies were slated to unveil products based on the open-source virtualization technology. Virtual Iron this summer will release for beta testing Version 3 of […]