Jeff Burt

Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. is bringing its utility computing strategy to North America, expanding an initiative that has been used in Japan for two years. Named Triole, the strategy is similar in goals to initiatives from other vendors, including Hewlett-Packard Co.s Adaptive Enterprise, IBMs on-demand computing and Sun Microsystems Inc.s N1: to create a flexible […]

The U.S. server market continues to grow, and so does business for IBM and Dell Inc. In numbers released Tuesday by research firm Gartner Inc., IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., continued to lead the pack in revenue generated from U.S. server sales, garnering almost $1.5 billion in the first quarter. The number marked a 21.8 percent […]

IBM, DataSynapse and Paremus are each taking steps to quell fears and nudge enterprises down the grid computing path. Commonplace in universities and research institutions, grid computing is the practice of pooling IT resources into grids to create massive amounts of computing power. /zimages/1/28571.gifClick here for an analysis on grid computing in the enterprise. IBM […]

OEMs led by IBM are trying to spark interest in blade servers by expanding the capabilities of their respective systems. IBM is seen as a market leader in blade systems, servers that can fit booklike into chassis and share resources such as power supplies and networking infrastructures. The Armonk, N.Y., company—through partnerships with Nortel Networks […]

ClearCube Technology Inc., a pioneer in the PC blade field, is enhancing its management software with capabilities that offer IT administrators a simpler console and the ability to dynamically allocate blade resources. “We are bringing on-demand computing over to the client side,” said Amir Husain, chief software architect at the Austin, Texas, company. The ability […]

Sun Microsystems is continuing to partner with OEMs worldwide as it pushes to grow its presence in the low-end, industry-standard server market. The Santa Clara, Calif., company announced Thursday that it has signed up 15 more systems and embedded-device makers whose products—based on processors from Intel Corp. or Advanced Micro Devices Inc.—will run the Solaris […]

Levanta Inc. is bringing its mainframe server management expertise into the Intel space. The San Francisco company, formerly known as Linuxcare Inc., on Monday unveiled Levanta Release 3 for PC Servers, a platform designed to help enterprises manage their scale-out data centers. Levanta rolled out the first version of its software, Levanta for zSeries, targeted […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Tuesday will unveil three new models of its 64-bit Opteron chip that will feature better performance through higher frequencies and faster memory controllers. The Opteron Model 250, for two-processor servers, will be available immediately, according to Ben Williams, vice president of AMDs server and workstation business unit. The 150, for […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. saw quarterly revenues surpass the $20 billion mark for the first time while showing growth in all of its major divisions. The Palo Alto, Calif., company reported Tuesday that revenue for the second quarter was $20.1 billion, a 12 percent increase over the same period last year. Operating profit for the quarter ended […]

SAP AG has teamed up with several of the worlds biggest computer hardware manufacturers to make deploying and managing the companys enterprise applications faster and easier. At SAPs Sapphire conference in New Orleans last week, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. rolled out new offerings that bundled their respective servers with SAP software. […]

Dell continued its upward financial trend, posting record revenue numbers during its first fiscal quarter. The Round Rock, Texas, company, which ended fiscal year 2004 with more than $41 billion in revenue, posted $11.5 billion in the quarter ended April 30, a 21 percent jump over the same period last year. Dell Inc., which is […]

IBM next week will take the next step in its Power Everywhere initiative by rolling out resources to help software developers as they begin building applications to the architecture. The Armonk, N.Y., company on Monday will unveil the tools on its developerWorks Web site, said Kathy Mandelstein, program director for worldwide developer marketing at IBM. […]