Jeff Burt

As major computer makers push a variety of utility computing offerings, one small startup is hoping to attract attention with a new server architecture that leverages industry-standard components and proprietary technology to create a pool of computing resources that can scale up and down depending on workload demands. Liquid Computing Corp.s Liquid Server systems, which […]

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. Speaking to analysts and reporters Thursday morning, Mark Loughridge, IBMs senior vice president and chief financial officer, said the amount […]

IBMs venerable iSeries platform has been a backbone of enterprise networks for years, but company officials said the technology needs a push to return it to the forefront of IT managers minds. “This year, one of the top priorities is revitalizing the ecosystem of solution providers and resellers and systems integrators in support of the […]

Orion Multisystems last week began shipping a 96-processor clustered workstation aimed at users who want to run complex tasks on their desktops. The DS-96 is Orions second product, following the launch last fall of the 12-node desktop DT-12 workstation. The clustered workstations link processors in a single box so that complex workloads can be broken […]

Lenovo Group Ltd. has completed the $1.75 billion purchase of IBMs PC business. The two companies announced the closing of the deal Sunday. The purchase creates the third largest PC vendor in the world—with $13 billion in revenue and 14 million units shipped—trailing Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., and gives IBM greater access to the […]

Dell Inc. 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 (small and midsize businesses) will replace Dells current 2600 series, which is solely unmanaged. “It will ship as unmanaged, so if thats all [the customer] […]

IBM and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have entered into an eight-year, $402 million partnership designed to overhaul the medical centers IT infrastructure and help it develop IT solutions that will be used both internally and sold commercially to other health care facilities. About $352 million of that will be used to rebuild UPMCs […]

Suns upcoming “Niagara” systems will be shipping no later than early 2006, and could even start rolling out earlier. Andy Ingram, vice president of marketing for Sun Microsystems Inc.s Scalable Systems Group—which handles the Santa Clara, Calif., companys Sparc-based systems—said development of the chip is going well enough that Sun may push back the release […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. this summer will begin outfitting its ProLiant servers with new small-form-factor hard drives developed in conjunction with Fujitsu Ltd., Hitachi Ltd. and Seagate Technology LLC. The 2.5-inch 10,000-rpm hard drive will increase performance and server density and improve energy consumption and heat generation, according to Rich Palmer, director of product marketing for storage, […]

Hewlett-Packard this week is introducing a workstation and a desktop PC that both have 64-bit capabilities, better security and support for Intels dual-core Pentium processors. HP is making the announcements at Microsofts WinHec conference. HPs xw4300 Workstation features Intels 64-bit Pentium 4 processor and 955X chip set. The Compaq dc7600 comes in three form factors—a […]

A startup is looking to bring the high-availability capabilities of the telecommunications industry to the server management field. Symbium last week launched its flagship product, Intelligent Secure Autonomic Controller, or ISAC. The software lets users autonomically manage host servers, operating systems and applications based on policies. ISAC runs on an embedded computer connected via a […]

Orion has begun shipping a 96-processor clustered workstation aimed at users who want to run complex workloads on their desktops. Orion Multisystems Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif., already sells a 12-node desktop workstation—the DT-12—that offers up to 24GB of memory. The new system, the DS-96, offers up to 192GB of memory for about $100,000, said […]