Jeff Burt

Sun Microsystems Inc. is hoping to expand its services offerings by combining its managed services and utility computing groups under one umbrella. The move, which officials at the Santa Clara, Calif., company discussed for the first time at an event here last week, is an effort to attract more utility computing contracts and services engagements. […]

Top systems vendors are teaming with Intel Corp. to create a specification that enables enterprises to more easily manage heterogeneous server environments. Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Intel head the DMTF Server Management Working Group, under the auspices of the Distributed Management Task Force, in Portland, Ore. The group will involve other DMTF members, […]

XOsoft Inc. is bolstering its backup and disaster recovery software with automatic failover and application awareness features. The company this week is releasing WANSync HA, which is a high-availability version of its business continuity software that provides IT administrators with automatic failover over a LAN or WAN. The upgrade maintains identical replicas of databases and […]

IBM researchers said they have made a breakthrough in chip development that could lead to processors that are smaller but more powerful than current offerings. Researchers used a technique called molecular self-assembly to create important parts of a semiconductor memory device, IBM reported in a paper presented last week at the IEEE International Electron Devices […]

ICan SP Inc. on Tuesday unveiled its suite of IT service management software designed to give enterprises a way to centralize their business requirements and data center resources. The iCan Service Management Suite, or iSMS, spans everything from cataloging and provisioning to billing, assurances and metering. The goal is to give users a clear view […]

Unisys Corp. and Microsoft Corp. next month will launch a joint program aimed at luring enterprises away from Unix/RISC platforms and over to systems powered by Intel Corp. chips and running Windows, according to Unisys officials. In a study conducted in April surveying 16,000 Unix systems users, Unisys found that 35 percent of businesses running […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is folding its services and enterprise systems units into a single group, reducing the number of business units from five to four. HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina made the announcement on Tuesday at a meeting with financial analysts in New York. The new unit will be called the Technology Solutions Group and […]

In a move to further its utility computing initiative, Hewlett-Packard Co. is rolling out a series of products equipped with virtualization capabilities. The Palo Alto, Calif., company is joining the growing list of vendors offering PC blades with the announcement late last week of its Consolidated Client Infrastructure. The technology will enable customers to use […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is looking to build on the momentum it gained from a recent partnership with chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. with a host of new and enhanced x86-based entry-level systems. At the companys SunNetwork Conference in Berlin last week, Sun unveiled offerings that address everything from high-end systems to the HPTC (high-performance […]

IBM Corp. researchers say they have made a breakthrough in chip development that could lead to processors that are smaller but more powerful than the current offerings. In a paper scheduled to be presented on Monday at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in Washington, D.C., IBM researchers will say they have used a technique […]

Intel Corp., hoping to lure users of 64-bit RISC-based systems to its Itanium architecture, will let customers test drive Itanium 2-based servers for free for up to three months, officials said on Monday. If at the end of the three months the customer likes the results, they can buy the systems, according to a spokesman […]

New software from Tidal Software Inc. aims to make it easier for IT administrators to move their job-automation definitions and schedules from a test realm to a production environment. At Gartner Inc.s Gartner Datacenter 2003 conference in Las Vegas on Monday, the software company will roll out Tidal Transporter, an add-on to Tidal Enterprise Scheduler […]