Jeff Burt

IBM next month will begin shipping high-end servers in their pSeries and iSeries lines running on its Power5 processor. The Armonk, N.Y., company will launch the 32-way p590, the 64-way p595 and the 64-way i595, IBM officials will announce Friday. The virtualization features offered with the servers coupled with the dual-core capabilities in the Power5 […]

Only a few years ago, mainframe computers were considered an endangered species about to be replaced by fast, interconnected and cheaper commodity systems. Fast-forward to this year, and the picture is entirely different. IBM has seen revenue from mainframe sales grow, and while Unisys Corp. officials say their companys mainframe business isnt growing as fast […]

Top-tier OEMs are looking to bundle hardware, software and services as a way of winning customers in the highly competitive and rapidly growing SMB space. The result will be that users will get access to the latest technology packaged in a way that wont strain their tight budgets or small IT staffs. At the TechXNY […]

IBM, buoyed by four consecutive quarters of growth in its mainframe business, is looking to extend the reach of its zSeries systems. In a series of announcements this week, officials with the Armonk, N.Y., company said they want to take the traditional strengths of the mainframe—including reliability, security and scalability—and illustrate how the systems can […]

Wyse Technology Inc., Neoware Systems Inc. and Maxspeed Corp. are rolling out hardware and upgraded management software that the companies say will make it easier to deploy and administer thin clients. Wyse, at Citrix Systems Inc.s iForum show in Orlando, Fla., will unveil two new devices—the Winterm 3150SE and 9150SE—and two new thin-client platforms built […]

Cray is set to announce that runs Linux and is powered by Advanced Micro Devices Opteron processors. Pricing will start at less than $100,000—quite an adjustment for a company whose only previous product, the X1, sold for $1 million to $100 million to the high end of the supercomputer market. Cray moved in this direction […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. executives have crisscrossed the country in recent weeks to assure customers and investors that the problems that resulted in the companys troubling third-quarter financial results are in the past. However, some skeptical users and industry analysts are taking a wait-and-see view of the situation—which cost HPs Enterprise Storage and Server Group $400 million […]

The two-year reign of the massive Earth Simulator as the fastest supercomputer in the world appears to be nearing an end. IBM executives on Wednesday will announce that one of the new machines in its Blue Gene project earlier this month reached a sustained peak of 36.01 trillion calculations per second—or 36.01 teraflops—during internal tests […]

Blade server manufacturers are developing new management capabilities that should make it easier for customers to deploy and run the slim-form-factor machines in combination with traditional rack-mount and tower servers. Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and RLX Technologies Inc. are planning features for their respective blade products that will take some of the management burden off […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is discontinuing its line of Itanium-based workstations, saying demand from its customers is for x86 systems powered by processors with 64-bit extensions. The Palo Alto, Calif., company is discontinuing its one-way zx2000 and two-way zx6000 workstations, which were introduced in May 2003 and run on Intel Corp.s Itanium 2 64-bit processors. HP will […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. will descend on New York this week to exhibit new technology in front of one of its oldest customers—Wall Street. Sun has a long history of selling SPARC/Solaris architecture to the financial industry. All the top 10 Wall Street firms run Sun technology, as does 70 percent of the Nasdaq, said John […]

Gateway Inc. is unveiling an upgraded all-in-one desktop computer that includes Intel Corp.s latest chip set and integrated graphics technology. The Profile 5.5, rolled out Monday, also features a high-bandwidth serial ATA hard drive and up to 2GB of memory. The Irvine, Calif., company targets the PC at businesses, government offices and schools with little […]