Jeff Burt

Gateway is planning to close one of its three Midwestern operations at the end of the month as part of its overall push to streamline operations, reduce payroll and return to profitability by the end of the year. The Poway, Calif., company will close its Sioux Falls, S.D., facility by the end of June, a […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is developing blade servers that will be powered by Intel Corp.s Itanium chip, another push by the company to bring 64-bit capability to the dense form factor. The Palo Alto, Calif., company already is on track to roll out in the second half of the year a ProLiant blade server powered by Advanced […]

Micro Focus International Ltd. wants to make it easier for businesses to use their legacy mainframe systems in a Web-enabled world. The company, with U.S. headquarters in Rockville, Md., on Tuesday released its Mainframe Express Enterprise Edition, a collection of software designed to enable businesses to take applications residing on legacy systems and extend them […]

Sun Microsystems partnership with Fujitsu to jointly develop SPARC/Solaris-based systems gives the company—and its customers—much-needed breathing room. With sales of Unix-based servers flagging, the deal will leave Sun with enough resources to continue enhancing its RISC-based processor while simultaneously growing a line of x86 systems and following through on its throughput computing strategy. The Santa […]

Dell and NEC Solutions are extending their server lines with new and upcoming systems powered by Intels 64-bit Itanium 2 processors. Dell Inc., of Round Rock, Texas, on Monday rolled out the PowerEdge 7250, a four-way system targeting an enterprises mission-critical applications such as databases, ERP (enterprise resource planning) and CRM (customer relationship management). The […]

Recent reports by the leading market research companies show that worldwide server sales continue to rise, indicating that enterprises are beginning to loosen their purse strings for IT infrastructure purchases. IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. still command a lions share of attention from the enterprise. But Dell Inc., which for several years has been evangelizing on […]

The second quarter is unfolding pretty much as Intel expected. Speaking to analysts during a midquarter financial update Thursday, Andy Bryant, Intel Corp.s chief financial officer, said the giant chipmaker expects revenue to come in between $8 billion and $8.2 billion, a slight improvement over the $7.6 billion to $8.2 billion range officials set in […]

Transmeta is coming out with a new version of its Efficeon processor later this summer that—at 48 percent smaller than the current chip—is targeted at smaller form factors, embedded devices and thin, light notebooks. Transmeta Corp. unveiled the Efficeon TM8620 this week at the Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan. Also at the show, the company […]

Rival chip makers Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are both rolling out new processors aimed at the desktop and notebook space. Intel on Tuesday expanded its line of mobile processors, including the second generation of its Mobile Pentium 4. The new chips—the 518, 532 and 538—offer faster speeds, ranging from 2.8GHz to 3.2GHz, […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Fujitsu Ltd. will jointly develop and market a line of SPARC/Solaris systems that will hit the market by the middle of 2006. The new product line—called Advanced Product Line, or APL—will eventually replace Suns Sun Fire products and Fujitsus SPARC-based PrimePower systems, Sun Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy said Tuesday, speaking […]

As enterprise PCs continue to evolve from stand-alone boxes to networked devices, development is under way to help IT administrators make them more secure and easier to manage. Hewlett-Packard Co. and BIOS maker Phoenix Technologies Ltd. are readying product enhancements that will shore up security, and PC blade pioneer ClearCube Technology Inc. is extending its […]

The worldwide server market saw revenues grow for the fourth consecutive quarter in the first quarter, another indication of the economic turnaround, according to research firm International Data Corp. IDCs numbers, released Friday, reflect similar trends found by analyst firm Gartner Inc. in a report earlier this week. The overall global server market grew by […]