Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard Co. is growing its utility computing offerings by buying management software vendors Consera Software Inc. and Novadigm Inc. Officials with HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., said earlier this month that HP will add the software the two companies make to its OpenView software. The goal is to automate most of an IT departments repetitive […]

Semiconductor rivals Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are pushing forward with new processors that expand the companies footprints. Intel this week is expected to demonstrate its future x86 64-bit chip line at its Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Code-named CT, the technology will be the Santa Clara, Calif., companys first public response […]

Maxspeed Corp. is making it easier for customers to deploy and update patches to their thin-client appliances running Microsoft Corp.s Windows XP Embedded operating system. The Palo Alto, Calif., company has introduced a service that officials say will enable Maxspeed users to get those patches almost a month before Microsoft sends them out for the […]

Researchers at the University of California at Irvine will use an IBM supercomputer to predict the impact of global warming on the Earth up to 300 years into the future. The supercomputer, called the Earth System Modeling Facility, or ESMF, will enable researchers at the universitys Department of Earth System Science to simulate how pressures […]

Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. is upgrading its Intel Corp.-based blade server with a chip that will boost the systems power while reducing its energy consumption. Fujitsu, of Sunnyvale, Calif., has put Intels Pentium M chip into the Primergy BX300 blade server, replacing the Low Voltage Mobile Pentium III chip that was used previously. The change […]

The future of computing is 64-bit, and that future is now. That is according to high-end server manufacturers Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc., both of which are readying 64-bit server rollouts. HPs new systems and processors are designed to consolidate some of the companys existing 64-bit server technology onto Intel Corp.s Itanium processor, while […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday will push standardization as a key part of its Adaptive Enterprise initiative, backing it up with new server offerings that move the company a step closer to its plan to standardize its high-end systems on Intel Corp.s 64-bit Itanium chip. The Palo Alto, Calif., company is undergoing a multiyear project that […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is adding to its utility computing strategy by buying management software vendors Consera Software Inc. and Novadigm Inc. Officials with HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., said on Wednesday that the software the two companies make will add to HPs OpenView software offerings. “Novadigm and Consera will add powerful automation software to HP OpenView, […]

IBM is bulking up its eight-way eServer p655 system with a faster chip and twice the memory. The companys p655 family, now in its third generation and targeted for high-performance computing and business intelligence applications, has four-processor systems that run IBMs 64-bit 1.7GHz Power4+ chip, but until now the eight-way unit ran only the 1.5GHz […]

Enterprise IT buyers are hoping to get more bang for their buck from new Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. systems that are being beefed up with an upgrade to Intel Corp.s Pentium 4 desktop processor line, code-named Prescott. The chip, which Intel is expected to release this week, is the Santa Clara, Calif., companys first […]

Gateway Inc., which has spent the past year trying to expand beyond its PC-making roots, on Friday announced it was buying privately-held computer-maker eMachines Inc. for about $235 million. Officials with Gateway, in Poway, Calif., said the combined company will create the third-largest computer maker in the country behind Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc.—and eighth […]

IBM has merged its server and chip groups in a move designed to streamline the operations of both units. The merged business unit, called the Systems and Technology Group, will be headed by William Zeitler, senior vice president and group executive for IBMs Systems Group, and John Kelly, senior vice president of the Technology Group, […]