Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday is unveiling a host of virtualization technologies designed to enable enterprises to increase the utilization and ease the management of their data center resources. Included in the host of announcements is the Palo Alto, Calif., companys entrance into the PC blade space with its Consolidated Client Infrastructure. The technology will enable […]

Intel Corp. officials on Thursday narrowed their fourth-quarter financial projections, and said they expect revenues to come in between $8.5 billion and $8.7 billion. At its third-quarter earnings announcement in October, officials with the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker predicted revenue of $8.1 billion to $8.7 billion. In a prepared statement, Intel officials said the […]

Thin-client vendor Wyse Technology Inc. is looking to extend its portfolio with server-centric computing devices powered by Transmeta Corp.s processors, including its new Efficeon chip. Officials with Wyse, of San Jose, Calif., said Transmetas energy-efficient technology—which also includes its Crusoe processors—opens the doors to a number of possibilities for alternatives to desktops. “With the new […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is continuing its push into the low-end server space with several new products that the company will unveil Wednesday at its SunNetwork 2003 Conference in Berlin. Included in the rollout—the latest in Suns quarterly flood of new offerings—are x86-based systems, servers targeted at the telecommunications industry, reference architectures and a number of […]

Phil Condit is resigning as chairman and CEO of The Boeing Co., and former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Lewis Platt has been named to replace him as chairman of the aerospace companys board of directors. In an announcement Monday, board members of Chicago-based Boeing said they felt that a new executive structure was needed in the […]

IBMs scaled-down version of its Blue Gene/L doesnt look like much of a supercomputer. About the size of a dishwasher, the Linux-based prototype is now the 73rd-fastest computer in the world and is just a sample of whats ahead, according to its chief architect. This version of Blue Gene/ L is about 1/128th the size […]

MPC Computers LLC is extending its TransPort notebook line to include separate families of systems equipped with additional security and authentication features and targeted at government and commercial users. Two notebooks aimed at federal customers—which are due to be released before the federal buying season ramps up in the spring—will offer a hybrid of new […]

Acronis Inc. is building out its True Image Server software—which is used for server disk backups—with new versions designed to appeal to small IT departments and enterprises. True Image Server Version 7.0, released late last month, enables administrators to create an exact disk image of live servers for backup, according to officials with the South […]

Server shipments jumped 19.5 percent in the third quarter, fueled by the growing demand for low-cost volume systems, according to numbers released on Wednesday by International Data Corp. The Framingham, Mass., analyst firm said that revenues from server sales also increased 2 percent during the period, to $10.8 billion. It marked the second consecutive quarter […]

Jeffrey Clarke, the former chief financial officer for Compaq Computer Corp. and a key figure in the companys integration into Hewlett-Packard Co., resigned from his post as executive vice president of global operations at HP, the company announced on Tuesday. HP officials declined further comment on the resignation, other than to say in a statement […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has landed two of the top four systems makers to build servers using its 64-bit Opteron processors. The next challenge: Get a broad base of enterprise customers to make the switch from Intel Corp. machines. Sun Microsystems Inc. last week announced at Comdex in Las Vegas plans to build servers using […]

InfiniCon Systems Inc., Topspin Communications Inc. and Voltaire Inc. are enhancing their InfiniBand switches to provide increased performance and bandwidth in high-performance computing and clustered environments. At the SC2003 supercomputing show in Phoenix last week, each of the vendors announced 1U (1.75-inch) switches that offer as much as 480G bps of bandwidth and as many […]