Jeff Burt

Intel might have hoped its spring Developer Forum, which arrives next week, would be all about the chips. However, a March 3 first quarter profit warning by the company, which comes after it missed its fourth quarter 2004 earnings expectations, could darken the doorstep of the event, which kicks off on March 7 at San […]

Struggling Silicon Valley giant Silicon Graphics is cutting 12 percent of its work force as part of an overall restructuring plan designed to save the company $150 million by the end of the year. The Mountain View, Calif., company announced March 3 that it is cutting 250 positions as part of the restructuring, and also […]

Software giant Oracle will bring its E-Business Suite to Hewlett-Packards Itanium-based Integrity servers, and is enhancing its licensing model for Integrity servers that are partitioned to run multiple workloads. The moves were announced March 3 as part of a greater push by HP and Intel to tout the 64-bit platform. The CEOs from all three […]

Virtual Iron Software within the next three months will roll out a version of its data center virtualization software that will support Intels chip-level virtualization technology. The Lowell, Mass.-based company will demo the software next week at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, said Mike Grandinetti, vice president and chief marketing officer for Virtual […]

Revenues for windows-based x86 servers for the first time topped spending for Unix systems in the fourth quarter of 2005, according to analyst firm IDC. IDC and Gartner released their latest worldwide server numbers last week, showing a continued trend toward volume systems running Windows and Linux, while the RISC and mainframe spaces showed decline. […]

Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd is receiving accolades from industry experts for orchestrating the companys finances during his first year at the helm of the computer giant, but for many customers their top priorities have been service and support, areas some say still need work. At the HP Technology Forum last fall, Hurd, in his first […]

Revenues for Windows-based x86 servers in the fourth quarter of 2005 for the first time topped spending for Unix systems, according to analyst firm IDC. Both IDC and Gartner released their latest worldwide service numbers this week, showing a continued trend toward volume systems running Windows and Linux while the RISC and mainframe spaces showed […]

IBM held onto the top position in server revenue in 2005, though the companys revenues grew at less than the industry average, according to numbers released Tuesday by analyst group Gartner. In servers shipped, Hewlett-Packard remained on top, although its growth, too, was smaller than the industry average. In both revenue and shipments, Dell was […]

NEW YORK—Base-level virtualization—the dividing up of physical boxes into multiple virtual machines—is taking hold in the x86 world, according to vendors and analysts at a conference on the technology here on Feb. 6. The next step is going to be bulking up the software options that enable such capabilities as policy-based, automated provisioning and deploying […]

Dell is integrating a Cisco Systems switch into its blade server chassis, a move designed to improve the connectivity of the systems while increasing rack density capabilities and reducing cabling. The Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3030 was designed jointly by Dell and Cisco to fit in the PowerEdge Blade Server Enclosure, said Ryan Franks, an […]

Hewlett-Packard in its first quarter of fiscal year 2006 saw revenue growth in all segments of its business except for the services unit, where revenues dropped 2 percent, to $3.8 billion. Overall, HP saw revenues for the quarter jump 6 percent over the same quarter last year, to $22.7 billion. The revenue growth touched most […]

Two months after releasing its first commercial products, open-source virtualization startup XenSource is changing leadership. The Palo Alto, Calif., company announced Feb. 15 that Peter Levine, a longtime Veritas executive, will become CEO, replacing company co-founder Nick Gault. Levine has spent the past three years as a managing director at investment firm Mayfield Fund, but […]