Jeff Burt

EDS and Opsware on Tuesday here unveiled a proposed standard that officials said will help fuel the growth toward utility computing in the data center. The two companies are leading the development of the Data Center Markup Language, or DCML, which is designed to provide a common language to describe the resources within a data […]

Hewlett-Packard has released a new Itanium 2-based workstation for designers of planes, trains and automobiles. The company last week rolled out a new zx2000 workstation powered by one of Intels low-voltage DP (dual processor)- optimized Itanium 2 chips. That chip runs at 1.4GHz and offers 1.5MB of Level 3 cache. The new single-processor workstation is […]

The next product offering in IBMs Project Symphony initiative will be a bundle of software and hardware with the companys blade servers that is designed to enable enterprises to automate the tasks of managing their IT infrastructure. IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration, due at the end of the month, comprises versions of IBMs WebSphere middleware, DB2 […]

Hewlett-Packard co. is striking back at Sun Microsystems Inc., which in July rolled out its HP Away program aimed at luring AlphaServer customers. HP early this month introduced its own migration program for Sun customers looking to move from the Solaris platform to Linux. HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., is offering Sun users up to […]

Motorola will spin off its Semiconductor Products Sector chip operations into a separate company, prepping the spinoff for a public offering at a future date, company officials said. The spinoff will give SPS the freedom and leverage to conduct its own business deals, using capital it can raise from public markets. Current SPS President and […]

While Intel Corp. and IBM have garnered a lot of attention with upcoming enhancements to their respective Itanium and Power processors, users of high-end SPARC systems similarly can expect multicore and multithreaded processing capabilities in coming revisions of SPARC chips. At the Microprocessor Forum this week in San Jose, Calif., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Fujitsu […]

IBM is extending its zSeries mainframes both literally and figuratively. The Armonk, N.Y., company last week rolled out new models of its z990 mainframes, with greater Linux support and improved storage capabilities. In addition, IBM is expanding its Parallel Sysplex capabilities to enable businesses to cluster as many as 32 mainframes and extending the reach […]

A Palo Alto, Calif., company is making the thin client environment mobile. At Citrix Systems Inc.s iForum conference this week in Orlando, Fla., Maxspeed Corp. is relaunching its MaxBook 810, a notebook-style thin client that can connect with back-end servers via a built-in wireless PCMCIA 802.11b or 802.11g card. The 2.9-pound MaxBook offers the same […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger has tapped Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina to be part of his transition committee as he prepares to assume the governors job in California. In a prepared statement, Fiorina said she was honored to be part of the team that will help Schwarzenegger, a Republican, take over for Democratic Gov. Gray […]

IBM at the end of the month will launch the next product offering in its Project Symphony initiative, a bundling of software and hardware with its blade servers that is designed to enable enterprises to automate the tasks of managing their IT infrastructure. IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration comprises versions of WebSphere middleware, DB2 database applications, […]

IBM is linking its zSeries mainframe with its BladeCenter servers as a way of helping businesses simplify their IT infrastructure. The Armonk, N.Y.-based company on Tuesday rolled out new models of its z990 mainframes, with added features for greater Linux support and storage capabilities. IBM also is offering a rebate that can be used toward […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday is coming out with another Itanium 2-based workstation, this one aimed at design engineers. The Palo Alto, Calif., company in September rolled out the single-processor zx2000 workstation running on Intel Corp.s 1GHz Deerfield chip, known as Low Voltage Itanium 2. Now HP is offering another flavor of the zx2000, this one […]