Jeff Burt

IBM officials on Wednesday will demonstrate a virtualization initiative that they plan to extend throughout their server and storage product lines, starting with the Power-based iSeries later this quarter. At a meeting with analysts in Palisades, N.Y., IBM will unveil its Virtualization Engine, a project three years in the making that encompasses both software technologies […]

NEW YORK—Dell Inc. and SAP AG are extending their eight-year alliance via enhanced services and support offerings, the chief executives of both companies said Wednesday at a press conference here. Talking to about 60 reporters and analysts, Dell Chairman and CEO Michael Dell said that software products from enterprise applications market leader SAP offer the […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is rolling out a RISC-based workstation that officials said will boost performance at almost half the price of the current model. The key to the Workstation c8000, which is being released Tuesday, is its use of the new PA-8800 processor at 900MHz or 1GHz, a dual-core chip that will enable the two-way system […]

Egenera Inc. and 3Pardata Inc. are teaming up to give enterprises a virtualized server and storage offering for data centers. The companies have been working together for about nine months to ensure that Egeneras BladeFrame servers and 3Pardatas InServ Storage Servers are interoperable, a move officials said gets customers a step closer to a utility […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. officially entered the PC blade space Monday as it rolled out the Blade PC bc1000. The system is part of HPs Consolidated Client Infrastructure initiative, which offers a virtualized PC environment including other products such as thin clients and network storage offerings. With the Blade PC bc1000, Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP enters a […]

NEW YORK—Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. have all jumped onto the Opteron bandwagon. Dell Inc. remains the only top-tier server maker yet to adopt the 64-bit processor. However, if Hector de Ruiz is to be believed, Dell will be signing on, and maybe sooner than later. At an event here Thursday marking the […]

Egenera Inc. and 3PARdata Inc. are teaming up to give enterprises a virtualized server and storage offering for their data centers. In a joint marketing and support agreement announced Tuesday, the two companies say their products—Egeneras BladeFrame servers and 3PARdatas InServ storage devices—are interoperable, a move officials say gets customers a step closer to a […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has persuaded three more top OEMs to use the Opteron, but it has a long way to go in persuading many big-enterprise customers to switch from systems that use Intel Corp. processors. To help make that leap, AMD has laid plans to enhance the processor and at the same time has […]

IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. are taking diverging paths to the same goal: broader adoption of their respective RISC chip technologies. IBM, in an effort to expand the reach of its Power processor platform, last week licensed the chip architecture and sold a portion of its PowerPC 400 line to Applied Micro Circuits Corp. The […]

Fueled by double-digit growth in both hardware and software, IBM on Thursday reported first-quarter revenues of $22.2 billion, an 11 percent increase over the $20.1 billion in the same period in 2003. Income for the three months ended March 31 was $1.6 billion, a jump of 16 percent over the $1.4 billion earned during the […]

Despite the economic downturn, the past four years have been good to Egenera Inc. Founded in March 2000 by Vern Brownell, former chief technology officer at The Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the Marlboro, Mass., company has seen business grow as its stateless blade servers—no disks, just a processor and memory—and virtualization software have gained traction, […]

Two weeks after announcing that it was opening its Power processor architecture, IBM on Tuesday announced that it is selling three of its embedded PowerPC chips to Applied Micro Circuits Corp. for $227 million. The agreement also enables Applied Micro Circuits, of San Diego, to license the Power architecture, which is the technology that is […]