Jeff Burt

IBMs autonomic computing effort, which aims to build software and systems that all but run themselves, is making its way into computing hardware with the development of new technology that lets microprocessors monitor, regulate and heal themselves. The chip-morphing technology, called eFuse and unveiled late last month, is designed to enable processors to adjust themselves […]

Five years ago, Peter Dougherty laid out a vision for Touro Infirmary: Make the 152-year-old nonprofit New Orleans hospital a paperless operation. In his plan, all doctors, nurses and administrative personnel would be able to access patient information—from medical records to doctors orders to patient billing data—via computers, without ever having to touch a piece […]

Gateway Inc. continues to expand its distribution channels, announcing Monday that CompUSA Inc. will now sell Gateway desktops in its 226 retail stores nationwide. The move follows through on a promise by new President and CEO Wayne Inouye to expand the number of outlets selling Gateway-branded products after the Poway, Calif., company shut down its […]

Sun Microsystems Inc.s plans for bringing its Solaris operating system to IBMs Power architecture appear to be moving along. Jonathan Schwartz, Suns president and chief operating officer, first broached the idea of porting the companys version of the Unix operating system onto both Power and Intel Corp.s 64-bit Itanium architecture last month during a conference […]

Intel CEO Craig Barrett will turn 65 later this month, officially starting the countdown to the day next spring when he steps down from the top spot at the worlds largest chip-making company. In all likelihood, Paul Otellini, current president and chief operating officer, will replace Barrett, becoming the fifth CEO at Intel Corp. and […]

Dell saw revenues and income jump sharply during its second fiscal quarter, fueled in large part by sales of its enterprise servers and storage devices. The Round Rock, Texas, company generated $11.7 billion in revenue during the quarter ended July 30, a 20 percent increase over the same period a year ago. Dells net income […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. saw revenues grow in most business segments during its third fiscal quarter, but its enterprise servers and storage unit took a beating, prompting management changes in that group. HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., was scheduled to release earnings next week but issued preliminary numbers early Thursday morning. During the quarter that ended July […]

Verari Systems is putting Intels Nocona chip and the latest graphics technology from Nvidia into a high-end workstation aimed at compute-intensive tasks. Verari Systems Inc. unveiled the two-way NemeSys X64 graphics workstation Tuesday at the Siggraph computer graphics show in Los Angeles. The new 3.6GHz Xeon chips—codenamed Nocona, with Intel Corp.s EM64T extension technology—gives the […]

InfiniBand switch vendor InfiniCon Systems has a new CEO. J. Russell Hawkins takes over the helm of the 4-year-old company from Charles Foley, who will serve on InfiniCons advisory board. Hawkins most recently was senior vice president of Carrier Access, which bought the company where he was president and CEO, wireless networking company Paragon Networks […]

When Gateway Inc. bought eMachines Inc. for $290 million in March, there was concern among enterprise users that the PC maker was going to exit the commercial business, focusing instead only on consumers. That is not going to happen, said Tim Diefenthaler, director of enterprise servers and storage products at the Poway, Calif., company. Over […]

Thin-client vendor Wyse Technology is expanding its Linux capabilities. At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Wyse is unveiling its Winterm 5150SE device, which runs Wyses Linux V6 operating system. Linux V6 is based on the latest Linux kernel, 2.6. In addition, the 5150SE is powered by Advanced Micro Devices Geode GX 533 processors for embedded […]

IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. are each revamping their low-end servers with new Intel Corp. chips and diverse management capabilities aimed at enterprises that are increasingly buying one- or two-processor systems for grid and clustered computing. Ninety percent of the x86 servers sold last year were equipped with one or two processors, according to […]