Jeff Burt

Egenera Inc. and SWsoft Inc. are teaming up to bring greater virtualization capabilities to Egeneras BladeFrame blade server environment. The two companies on Monday announced a joint marketing, sales and testing alliance in which Egenera, of Marlboro, Mass., will become a member of SWsofts Strategic Technology Partner program. At the same time, SWsoft, of Herndon, […]

Egenera and SWsoft are partnering to bring greater virtualization capabilities to Egeneras BladeFrame server environment. Egenera this week will become a member of SWsofts Strategic Technology Partner program, while SWsoft will join the Egenera Accelerate alliance program. Egenera sells high-end stateless blade servers and virtualization software for building utility computing environments. SWsofts Virtuozzo software dynamically […]

IBM is expanding the features of its BladeCenter systems, offering two new switch options and letting users try virtualization technology from VMware Inc. The moves, announced last week at the Server Blade Summit, in Santa Clara, Calif., are the latest by IBM to grow the capabilities of its blade systems through partnerships. By bundling evaluation […]

IBM is expanding the features of its BladeCenter platform, offering two new switch options and bundling VMware Inc.s virtualization technology into the systems. The moves, which IBM is announcing Wednesday at the Server Blade Summit, in Santa Clara, Calif., are the latest by the Armonk, N.Y., company to grow the capabilities of its blade systems […]

Dell Inc. is rolling out new hardware, software and services designed to push forward its vision of enterprise data centers populated with smaller systems linked together to create highly scalable and robust computing environments. At a press conference Wednesday, Jeff Clark, senior vice president of Dells Enterprise Product Group, unveiled the four-way PowerEdge 6800 and […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is rolling out a low-power 64-bit Opteron processor that company officials said is ideal for dense platforms such as blade servers. At the Server Blade Summit 2005 in Santa Clara, Calif., on Tuesday, AMD announced the Opteron Model 248 HE, a low-power version of the current 2.2GHz Opteron 248. The current […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. this week will announce an expansion of its Smart Office initiative, targeted at small and midsize businesses, which includes a component built around the companys BladeSystem platform. Launching May 2, Blades for Business will offer information, consulting and integration services to SMBs looking to start or expand their use of blade servers, according […]

Continuing its push to make IT infrastructures easier and less expensive to run, Hewlett-Packard Co. in May will begin shipping its ProLiant servers with multifunctional network adapter cards and smaller hard drives. In addition, the servers will offer greater data protection through support for RAID 6. The moves are designed to simplify the infrastructure and […]

Three months after shedding its hardware business to focus on its server management software, RLX Technologies Inc. is announcing its first OEM partnership and another round of funding. RLX was a pioneer in the blade server space, rolling out the System 324 in 2001. However, since then, the space has become dominated by the major […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is turning its attention to software support as it readies its upcoming “Niagara” processors. Niagara, due to appear in systems early next year, is a key part of Suns remaking of its server business, going from a single proprietary platform to multiple offerings on several architectures, including x86. Niagara is the first […]

IBMs $1.75 billion deal to sell its PC business to Chinese computer vendor Lenovo cleared a major hurdle last week when a U.S. security committee OKd the agreement. The interagency Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States reviewed the deal, which will create the third-largest PC vendor, after concerns were raised by three members […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. within the next two months will begin shipping ProLiant servers with multifunctional network adapter cards and smaller hard drives. Those moves, along with support for RAID 6 for greater data protection, are designed to simplify the infrastructure and improve manageability in the data center, said Paul Perez, vice president of storage, networking and […]