Jeff Burt

IBM it taking advantage of dual-core technology to bring enterprise server features to businesses with 50 or fewer employees. The Armonk, N.Y., company on Tuesday is rolling out the xSeries 100 server, with a choice of processors, including Intel Corp.s dual-core Pentium D chip. Other options include the single-core Celeron and Pentium 4 processors. The […]

Chip maker Intel, through its investment arm, Intel Capital, has joined the list of investors in Virtual Iron, whose technology is designed to enable data-center-level virtualization. Intel Capital led several other investors in Virtual Irons $8.5 million Series C capital campaign. Intel and Virtual Iron have also entered into a collaboration agreement in which Virtual […]

Supporters of the Itanium architecture are looking to crank up backing for the Intel Corp. platform just as competing systems makers launch initiatives in the enterprise space. In particular, Sun Microsystems Inc. earlier this month began rolling out its “Galaxy” line of enterprise systems based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s Opteron chip, and a week […]

Dell Inc. on Monday will begin taking orders for servers and workstations armed with dual-core Xeon processors from Intel Corp. The announcement comes about a month before the giant chip maker is expected to unveil its new dual-core processors. Dells systems sporting the new chips will start shipping within the month, around the same time […]

A week after rolling out the next generation of the companys x86 servers, Sun Microsystems Inc. officials are preparing to release a line of systems running the latest SPARC processors. The Santa Clara, Calif., company this week will unveil the first Sun Fire systems armed with the new UltraSPARC IV+ chips, which officials say offer […]

Gateway is launching a leasing program for its professional customers to aggressively court businesses, government agencies and educational institutions. Gateway is teaming with LEAF Financial and Merrill Lynch & Co. to offer a variety of leasing options, including full-payout leases and tax-exempt programs for municipalities. Over the past few months, Gateway has outlined several steps […]

IBM is looking to expand its OEM program for servers based on its Power architecture, a move thats in line with larger company initiatives to grow the platform. IBM already has OEM relationships with Hitachi Ltd., in Tokyo, and French computer maker Bull, which sell not only Power systems but also IBMs Unix operating system—AIX—and […]

MPC Computers is rolling out a server that offers enterprise features such as redundant power supplies and fans and software that can manage all resources within an IT environment. The NetFrame 6620, announced last week, is powered by up to four Intel Xeon MP processors, with a 667MHz front-side bus and up to 8MB of […]

Dell is stopping sales of its servers powered by Intel Corp.s 64-bit Itanium 2 server, apparently choosing instead to focus on its line of Xeon- and Pentium-based systems. A Dell spokesman said the company decided to drop the Itanium systems in order to focus solely on its vision of the “scale-out” data center, where multiple […]

This is why Sun Microsystems Inc. brought Andrew Bechtolsheim back. Early last year, Bechtolsheim—a Sun co-founder who left the company in 1995—was leading Kealia Inc., a startup designing a new generation of servers based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s Opteron processor. At the same time, Sun was embarking on a plan to create a family […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is rolling out a host of new software and services designed to simplify the management of virtualized environments and further the integration between its legacy platforms and Integrity line of servers based on Intel Corp.s 64-bit Itanium systems. HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., is standardizing its high-end systems on the Itanium chip. Virtualization […]

Stratus Technologies this week is rolling out a new Windows-based fault-tolerant system that offers three times the performance and eight times the I/O bandwidth of its predecessor. Stratus also offers a host of supporting services around the ftServer W Series 4300—which replaces the 3300—and its companion server, the 4600, which was announced in June. The […]