Jeff Burt

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Monday will be getting a crucial endorsement as it tries to push its 64-bit Opteron server processor into the enterprise space. At the Comdex show in Las Vegas, Sun Microsystems Inc. is announcing that early next year it will be rolling out a line of low-end Sun Fire servers powered […]

Intel Corp. will introduce multithreading capability and a massive 24MB Level 3 cache on the Itanium 2 processor due out in 2005. Code-named Montecito, the dual-core chips cache size will dwarf that of the current Itanium 2 chip—which has 6MB of cache—and the 9MB due out on Itanium 2 next year, according to Lisa Graff, […]

IBM next week will take a big step forward in its project to create the fastest computer in the world when a small-scale version of the Blue Gene/L finds its way onto the Top 500 list of most powerful systems. This version of Blue Gene/L—about the size of a dishwasher, according to its chief architect—is […]

Users of Hewlett-Packard Co.s xw line of workstations can now centrally manage and maintain systems that are distributed throughout the enterprise. HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., this week released its Remote Workstation Software, a two-piece solution that enables financial service institutions to bring almost thin-client-like capabilities to their workstation environments by bringing the computing resources […]

Gateway Inc. officials on Tuesday will be in New York touting the remodeling of their almost 190 stores and unveiling two new notebooks, all part of their push to grow the company from being a PC manufacturer to a branded integrator. Gateway, of Poway, Calif., has been remodeling the stores as part of a push […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday unveiled more than three dozen new software and services offerings aimed at ramping its adaptive enterprise strategy. At the same time, HP officials also announced a partnership with SAP AG and the acquisition of Persist Technologies Inc., an e-mail archiving company based in Pleasanton, Calif. Speaking at HPs Software Universe conference […]

Dell Inc. on Tuesday unveiled new capabilities to its OpenManage software suite designed to give users a single place from which to manage their data center hardware, software and operating systems. In a brief conference call with reporters, Neil Hand, director of worldwide marketing for Dells Product Group, said that currently IT administrators must use […]

When Ken Boyd walked into Goodys Family Clothing Inc. six years ago, he wasnt just starting a new job as technical services director; he was walking into a new way of doing business. As lead systems analyst at his previous company, Boyd had grown accustomed to going through IBM directly for products and services—and IBM […]

VMware Inc. and Microsoft Corp., by years end, will provide IT administrators with options for using virtual machines to increase the flexibility of data centers and consolidating servers. VMwares VirtualCenter, which will be unveiled this week, is a renamed and upgraded version of its Control Center software that officials said will decrease the time needed […]

IBM is readying a prepackaged, pretested server cluster that is powered by Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s 64-bit Opteron processor. The offering, which will be available later this month or early next month, combines IBMs Opteron-based eServer 325 system—which targets scientific and technical computing users—with systems management software and storage devices. The bundle can run Linux […]

Two startups are looking to give enterprises and HPC laboratories something they are thirsty for in their compute-cluster environments: more bandwidth and less latency. OctigaBay Systems Corp. last week unveiled the OctigaBay 12K, a Linux-based high-performance computing platform powered by Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s 64-bit Opteron processors that OctigaBay officials say will be 30 times […]

IBM on Monday is rolling out a version of its Itanium-based server that will enable users to scale the system from four to 16 processors. The eServer xSeries 455 is designed to enable users to scale their Itanium systems and increase their 64-bit computing capabilities as their business demands dictate, something officials with the Armonk, […]