Jeff Burt

IBM is making an aggressive push to grow the presence of its iSeries servers in the midmarket. With its new iSeries Initiative for Innovation program, announced Thursday, the Armonk, N.Y., company is targeting customers and software makers by offering some 2,500 ISVs and developers an average of $50,000 in services to create offerings to iSeries […]

Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are jockeying for position as they prepare to roll out dual-core versions of their processors over the course of the year. At its developer forum next week in San Francisco, Intel will make dual-core processing a key theme of the show. Included will be demonstrations of dual-core chips […]

When IBM introduced the first Enterprise X-Architecture to its line of Intel Corp.-based systems in 2001, it soon came to dominate the eight-way space of the market, according to company officials. IBM aims to do the same in the four-way space with the introduction Tuesday of the next generation of the architecture, X3, and a […]

NEC Solutions (America) Inc. is growing its line of fault-tolerant systems with the rollout this week of its midrange Express5800/320Lc server that combines software monitoring tools with the companys high-availability platform. The new server, which will be available later this week, includes ExpressCluster Self Recovery Edition, or SRE, which offers IT administrators the ability to […]

Pogo Linux wants to make it easier for Linux application makers to sell their products. The company is launching a program, called Your Logo Here, in which it will sell servers to these software makers that, in turn, can load their software onto the systems and sell the bundles. For customers, this will ensure that […]

As Hewlett-Packard Co.s board of directors begins the search for a new CEO, it must ward off competitors eager to lure away users during this time of transition. The board is looking for an executive search company to help find a replacement for Carly Fiorina, who resigned Feb. 8 at the request of directors who […]

Sun Microsystems is preparing to expand the capabilities of its high-end systems with a faster UltraSparc IV processor, starting next week. The Santa Clara, Calif. company will roll out the 1.35GHz UltraSparc IV on its four-way Sun Fire v490 and eight-way v890 servers, said Fadi Azhari, group manager for Suns Scalable Systems Group. The new […]

Intel Corp., as part of its push to focus more on platforms than components, is introducing a technology designed to speed up the movement of data from the network to the application. Intels I/O Acceleration Technology will enable systems to move data to data center applications 30 percent faster than current networked servers, said Stephen […]

BOSTON—Pogo Linux Inc. is launching a program designed to make it easier for Linux application makers to sell their products. At the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here, Pogo Linux kicked off its Your Logo Here program, in which it will sell servers to the software makers, who in turn can load their software onto the […]

BOSTON—Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is partnering with XenSource Inc. to bring an open-source virtualization option to its 64-bit Opteron processors. AMD will port the Xen virtualization package to Opteron later in the first half of the year, company officials announced Tuesday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here. “Virtualization is more and more a key […]

Virtual Iron Software Inc. on Monday unveiled Version 1.0 of its upcoming data center virtualization offering. Virtual Iron is readying Virtual Iron VFe, software that enables users to partition processing power across multiple industry-standard servers, said Alex Vasilevsky, executive vice president, chief scientist and co-founder of the Acton, Mass., company. The product is scheduled to […]

MPC Computers last week rolled out two rack-optimized servers armed with Intels latest Xeon processors, which offer 32- and 64-bit capabilities. The 1U (1.75-inch) NetFrame 1720 and 2U (3.5-inch) 2720 are powered by two Xeons that offer Intels EM64T technology and an 800MHz front-side bus. The systems include Intels E7520 chip set with support for […]