Jeff Burt

HP and Lenovo are among the PC makers rolling out business desktops armed with Intel Corp.s new dual-core Pentium D processor and accompanying chip set. Intel launched the new technology at an event Thursday in San Francisco. The desktop processor is the second dual-core desktop chip from the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker, and it […]

Paul Otellini last week took the helm at Intel, a company that is reorganizing after a difficult year in 2004. Otellini, who was Intels president and chief operating officer, replaces Craig Barrett as CEO. Barrett will become chairman of the board of directors. The moves, anticipated for more than a year, were made official during […]

IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. want to make their respective blade server platforms more attractive to midsize businesses by making them easier to buy and deploy. To that end, both companies are rolling out bundled offerings that ease the cost and work involved in adopting blades. The strategies also rely heavily on channel partners to help […]

IBM is rolling out Express versions of its blade server platform designed for small and midsize businesses. The Armonk, N.Y., company is bundling its Express middleware onto its BladeCenter offerings to create a blade environment that is easy to deploy and scalable, said Elaine Lennox, vice president of SMB for IBMs Systems & Technology Group. […]

After spending the past few weeks promoting their respective industry-standard server initiatives, Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. this week will return to their Unix roots. Fujitsu will unveil new SPARC64 V processors that run faster than 2GHz and offer as much as 4MB of Level 2 cache, giving the companys PrimePower servers […]

IBM is looking to make it easier for smaller businesses to protect themselves against spam and viruses that make their way onto the network through e-mail. The Armonk, N.Y., company last week rolled out an Express configuration for its eServer OpenPower 710 system bundled with e-mail security software from a third-party vendor, Message Partners. In […]

Carly Fiorina, ousted as CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. in February, has emerged as the newest member of the Washington Speakers Bureau. Fiorina joins such names as the former Federal Communications Commission chairman, Michael Powell, and New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick. For $40,000 or more, Fiorina will share her views on such issues as competitiveness, […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is moving to make it easier for small and midsize businesses to adopt its BladeSystem platform. The Palo Alto, Calif., company on Thursday unveiled a new BladeSystem configuration with a smaller and more affordable power enclosure. Through its services unit, HP also wants to make it easier to install and deploy the blade […]

IBM is looking to make it easier for smaller businesses to protect themselves against spam and viruses that make their way onto the network through e-mail. The Armonk, N.Y., company is rolling out an Express configuration for its eServer OpenPower 710 system bundled with e-mail security software from a third-party vendor, Message Partners. In addition, […]

Dell is rolling out a family of Gigabit Ethernet switches that can be changed from unmanaged to Web-managed by pushing a button. The PowerConnect 2700 Series, aimed at SMBs, will replace Dells 2600 Series, which is solely unmanaged. The switches will ship as unmanaged but can be changed quickly, letting users scale switch capabilities, Dell […]

IBMs restructuring plans, which will include 10,000 to 13,000 job cuts, will save the company $300 million to $500 million in the second half of the year and two to three times that in 2006. Mark Loughridge, IBMs senior vice president and chief financial officer, said in a conference call last week that the amount […]

Lenovo Group Ltd. has completed its $1.75 billion purchase of IBMs PC business, creating the third-largest personal computer vendor in the world and giving IBM greater entree into the rapidly growing Chinese market. The deal, completed last week, in many ways is more of a merger. Lenovo will gain control of IBMs Think Centre desktop […]