Jeff Burt

IBM is opening a supercomputing-on-demand center in Europe to enable customers to access supercomputing power without having to invest in the hardware. The Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center in Montpellier, France, is the second one IBM has opened. The first, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., was opened in June 2003 and reached 100 percent capacity within […]

IBM is integrating Brocade Communications Systems Inc.s Fibre Channel switches into its BladeCenter systems, another step in IBMs push to incorporate leading technology into its blade servers. At the NetWorld+Interop show in Las Vegas, IBM on Tuesday will announce that it is integrating two of Brocades switches—the Entry SAN (storage area network) Switch Module that […]

SAP AG is getting a lot of attention from the worlds top OEMs these days. Two weeks ago, the software giant was sharing the stage with Dell Inc. as the two companies outlined an expansion of their alliance. This week, at SAPs Sapphire 04 show in New Orleans, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Fujitsu Computer Systems […]

When Poster Financial Group Inc. bought the famous Golden Nugget casinos and hotels in January, it hit the jackpot. For its $215 million purchase, the company got more than 70,000 square feet of gambling space, more than 2,200 slot machines, about 70 gaming tables, 2,200-plus hotel rooms, 4,000 employees, and various nightclubs and restaurants. But […]

Over the past four years, as the rest of the IT industry struggled to keep above the break-even line during the economic downturn, Dell Inc. flourished. The company aggressively drove prices down and sacrificed profit margins to gain share in the markets in which it played and moved into product areas that officials felt were […]

Intel Corp. is canceling the next generation of its desktop and server chips as it moves up its schedule for releasing processors with two cores on a single piece of silicon. The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker was scheduled to release its next-generation Pentium 4 chip, code-named Tejas, next year, as well as a Xeon […]

Topspin Communications Inc. is rounding out its server virtualization offerings with the release of its VFrame software suite. The software—the fourth component of Topspins virtualization strategy—is based on InfiniBand interconnect technology, and is designed to enable users to provision and deploy data center resources in a utility computing model. The other three components include the […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is rolling out new hardware, software and services designed to push forward the companys Adaptive Enterprise utility computing strategy. At the companys ENSA@Work conference in Munich, Germany, HP officials on Wednesday are unveiling a new module that will double the processing power of its Itanium-based Integrity systems. The new mx2 module will feature […]

Gateway Inc. on Tuesday is rounding out its server lineup with the addition of two entry-level, single-processor systems. The rack-optimized Gateway 9115 is a 1U (1.75-inch) system that features Intel Corp.s Pentium 4 chip with an 800MHz front-side bus, up to 4GB of memory, two integrated network ports and a dual-port serial ATA RAID controller. […]

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out a RISC-based workstation with boosted performance, officials said, but it costs about half the price of the current model. Key to the Workstation c8000, released last week, is the use of HPs new PA-8800 processor at 900MHz or 1GHz, a dual-core chip that enables the two-way system to perform like a […]

IBM and Unisys Corp. are each driving management and virtualization capabilities developed for mainframes further into standards-based systems designed for everyday enterprise use. The goal: to help users increase server flexibility and manageability while driving down costs. IBM this week will unveil a pair of midrange i5 iSeries servers, which will feature the companys new […]

In the wake of its acquisition of eMachines Inc., Gateway Inc. will cut another 1,500 jobs by the end of the year as it continues its push toward profitability, the company revealed during its first-quarter earnings call Thursday. The job cuts will come on top of the 2,500 positions lost when the Poway, Calif., company […]