Jeff Burt

Peter Blackmore is tasked with building up Hewlett-Packard Co.s Enterprise Systems Group, a high-profile segment of the Palo Alto, Calif., company that for many will define how HP is perceived by large enterprises. At its HP World conference in Atlanta this month, Blackmore talked with eWEEK Editor in Chief Eric Lundquist and Senior Editor Jeffrey […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina paced the stage of a New York loft early this month in front of a backdrop of shelves that held almost 160 new products, the largest product rollout in HP history. But the company that has been compared most often with IBM as one of the premier providers […]

Gateway Inc. this week is launching its first storage products and has refreshed its two-way server as it continues its push into the enterprise, part of a larger plan to move away from its roots as a PC maker. The Poway, Calif., company this year has released six servers and now wants to use those […]

SGI, which in January announced its Altix 3000 family of servers and super clusters running a variant of Linux, this fall will start offering an enterprise-grade version of the open-source operating system. The Mountain View, Calif., company—formerly known as Silicon Graphics Inc.—announced today it is entering into an OEM partnership with SuSE Linux AG in […]

Intel Corp., saying demand for chips and components for PCs is better than anticipated, is raising its financial expectations for the third quarter. The Santa Clara, Calif., company issued a statement Friday saying that officials expect revenue to come in between $7.3 billion and $7.8 billion, more than the $6.9 billion to $7.5 billion it […]

Dell Inc. this week is slashing prices on some computers, servers and consumer items. The Round Rock, Texas, company announced Wednesday that it is cutting server prices by 10 percent on rack-mounted systems and by as much as 22 percent on its four-way PowerEdge 6600. Dell also is reducing prices by $550 on some Precision […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. earned $297 million in the third quarter on revenue of more than $17.35 billion, with both the printer and services units reporting profits. However, both the enterprise and personal systems groups reported losses for the three months ending July 31, officials with the Palo Alto, Calif., company reported on Tuesday. The $297 million […]

BOSTON—Gateway Inc. announced details of its expected new storage and server products today. The companys product diversification—which recently added consumer electronics on the heels of layoffs, negative earnings and store closings—now also includes JBOD (just a bunch of disks) enclosures, tape libraries, and soon, network-attached storage, said Scott Weinbrandt, general manager, systems and networking products […]

IBMs upcoming Power5 microprocessor will enable administrators to easily switch back and forth from multi-threaded to single-threaded mode, and will dynamically shift power within the chip as needed by the work being done. The features are part of the Simultaneous Multi-threading technology, or SMT, that IBM is putting into the chip, which is due for […]

Top-tier vendors are fleshing out utility computing strategies and initiatives that are designed to virtualize the data center, making resources easier to manage in response to business demands. Hewlett-Packard Co. trumpeted its Adaptive Enterprise strategy at its HP World show here last week. Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina said everything the company is doing on […]

High-end blade server maker Egenera Inc. this week upgraded its four-way product line with the newest Xeon MP chips from Intel Corp. The Marlboro, Mass., company now offers a four-way Processing Blade with a 2.8GHz Xeon MPs, 2MB of Level 3 cache and 12GB of memory. Two others are powered by 2GHz Xeon MPs with […]

Dell Inc. saw large jumps in revenues, incomes and products shipped during the second quarter, and officials on Thursday predicted the uphill climb to continue into the current quarter. The Round Rock, Texas, company earned $621 million for the quarter that ended Aug. 1, a 24 percent jump from the same year-ago period. Revenues came […]