Jeff Burt

Executives with the company formerly known as RackSaver Inc. believe they have found the perfect combination to propel it forward in the competitive blade market space. The San Diego-based company—now known as Verari Systems Inc.—on Monday announced that it had acquired cluster management software maker MPI Software Technology Inc. Verari also announced that it received […]

The rapid growth of network computing—from blade servers and grids to compute clusters and utility computing—is fueling a push to find better interconnect technologies. While InfiniBand has received much of the attention over the past few years as a fast connection between servers, two startups are readying products that take advantage of the increasing performance […]

Voltaire Inc. and Topspin Communications Inc. are each readying InfiniBand switches designed not only to enable large-scale server clusters but also to provide the ability to tie those clusters into grid computing environments. At the ClusterWorld Expo this week in San Jose, Calif., Voltaire will unveil its ISR 9288 switch, which, with as many as […]

VMware Inc. seeks to push its workstation software beyond the high-end technology expert into more general enterprise use with the release this week of the latest version of its desktop virtual machine software. Version 4.5 supports a preboot execution environment to let users quickly provision VMs via a network. It also makes USB devices connected […]

Gateway Inc. is closing its 188 retail stores and laying off 2,500 employees as the shakeout of the acquisition of eMachines Inc. continues. Executives with the Poway, Calif., company announced Thursday they will continue to expand its retail distribution options both in the United States and around the world as they close down their own […]

NEW YORK—Taking the game plan implemented so successfully by Linux proponents, IBM will open up its Power microprocessor platform to enable other companies to innovate on top of the architecture. The goal is to enable Power-based solutions to grow to the point where much of the technology developed—from the smallest embedded systems to the largest […]

Two weeks after completing its acquisition of eMachines Inc., Gateway Inc. has rolled out a senior management team top-heavy with ex-eMachines executives. Gateway also announced that a number of the people hired last year by the company to lead its transformation from primarily a PC maker to a branded integrator will be leaving. Included in […]

Intel officials are changing the way they refer to their Pentium and Celeron PC processors in an effort to move away from focusing on the raw speed of the chips. The goal is to make it easier for consumers to understand the multitude of features on each processor—from frequency to bus speeds to cache sizes. […]

Acer America Corp.s new Veriton GT family of desktop computers aims to give small- and midsize-business users performance features—including Intels 865G chip set with Hyper-Threading technology for multithreaded applications—at a price starting at $813. The Veriton 7600GT, 5600GT and 3600GT, announced last week, come with Intel processors ranging from the 2.6GHz Celeron to the 3.2GHz […]

IBM and Unisys Corp. are extending their respective mainframe systems with enhancements that will answer enterprises growing workload demands. IBM, which next week celebrates the 40th anniversary of its first mainframe, will enhance its zSeries systems by extending the range of its Parallel Sysplex cluster technology and adding specialized engines, said Erich Clementi, zSeries general […]

Chip maker Transmeta Corp. is licensing its technology that controls power consumption and leakage in its processors to semiconductor manufacturer NEC Electronics Corp. As part of the announcement Thursday, NEC Electronics officials also said that the company has taken an equity stake in Transmeta, buying a small percentage of the 25 million shares sold during […]

Acer America Corp. is upgrading its line of desktops aimed at small and midsized businesses. The San Jose, Calif., company on Thursday unveiled the Veriton GT family of computers that come with hardware and software improvements over the current Veriton desktops. The systems include the latest Intel Corp. processors and chip sets, including the 865G […]