Jeff Burt

Now comes the hard part. Having dispatched Carly Fiorina as chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. last week, HP board members are faced with the daunting task of finding someone who can accomplish what the estimable Fiorina couldnt—make HPs enterprise business worth the $19 billion the company paid for Compaq Computer Corp. in 2002. Fiorinas […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. this week are rolling out enhancements to some of its processors, and OEMs are following with systems that take advantage of the upgrades. AMD, of Sunnyvale, Calif., on Monday is rolling out the next generation of its 64-bit Opteron processors. The Model 852 is designed for four-way systems […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. and Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. are looking to expand the Linux offerings in their blade server lines as well as some of their most powerful systems. At the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo this week in Boston, HP is expanding the reach of its Linux Reference Architecture in several areas, including into its BladeSystem […]

Carly Fiorina, whose controversial six years as head of Hewlett-Packard Co. was highlighted by the companys purchase of Compaq Computer Corp. in 2002, resigned Wednesday as chairman and CEO. HP Chief Financial Officer Robert Wayman will step in as interim CEO, while Patricia Dunn, a member of the board of directors since 1998, will take […]

Intel Corp. is getting ready to expand its 64-bit chip capabilities into new areas: the enterprise desktop and high-end Xeon-based servers. During a press briefing Tuesday, officials with the Santa Clara, Calif., company said Intel later this month will roll out the 600 Series of desktop Pentium 4 processors that will offer the EM64T technology, […]

IBM is making another push into the low-end Unix space with the release of a two-way server running on its 64-bit Power5 processor. The Armonk, N.Y., company already offers two 4U (7-inch) servers in the series, the two-way p5 520 and four-way 550, each of which also comes with Express versions aimed at the SMB […]

Egenera is expanding the capabilities of its blade servers, giving its BladeFrame systems greater virtualization and management functionality and adding blades running AMDs Opteron processor to its lineup. These moves are the latest by the Marlboro, Mass., company to help make running data centers easier for customers, said Robert Dutkowsky, chairman, president and CEO of […]

Gateway Inc. is refreshing its line of two-way servers, consolidating four systems into three and making the new servers more scalable. The Irvine, Calif., company this week is rolling out the Gateway 9510 Series tower server—which will replace the 960 and 980 systems—and two new rack-mount systems, the 1U (1.75-inch) 9315 and 2U (3.5-inch) 9515. […]

Hewlett-Packard researchers said they have created a device that one day could replace transistors, key building blocks in computers for the past five decades. Scientists with HPs Quantum Science Research group, or QSR, in a paper published last week in the Journal of Applied Physics, reported that they built a small device called a “crossbar […]

Enterprises feeling the financial heat in densely packed data centers are turning to chip makers, OEMs and software vendors for help in managing power and cooling issues. Solutions are coming on a number of fronts. This month, chip makers Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will detail plans for cooler-running systems that feature improved […]

Intel Corp. announced Monday that it has begun production of its dual-core desktop processors, and that the first will appear on the market next quarter with the first dual-core Pentium chips and dual-core-enabled chip sets. One of the processors that the Santa Clara, Calif., company will roll out will be a dual-core Pentium Extreme Edition. […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is ready to unveil its Sun Grid. At its quarterly product rollout on Tuesday, the Santa Clara, Calif., company will announce that it is opening six grid centers around the world, according to Sun officials. Sun has been doing utility computing for more than two years, but until last year that was […]