Jeff Burt

Wyse Technology Inc. is expanding the capabilities of its Expedian server optimization software designed to increase the performance of applications by as much as 100 percent in a server-centric computing environment. Expedian 1.5, released in January, improved server performance by allocating the proper resources to address requests coming into the server. Version 2.0, announced this […]

RLX Technologies Inc. is partnering with Topspin Communications Inc. to make high-end RLX blade servers InfiniBand-ready by building the capabilities into the chassis. Topspin, of Mountain View, Calif., will adapt its InfiniBand hardware and software to work with RLXs blade server architecture. Included in the package will be InfiniBand host channel adapters and software, switches, […]

SuperMicro this week is rolling out a 1U (1.75-inch) server powered by Intels Pentium 4 chip. The 5013C-T will include a front-side bus with speeds up to 800MHz and dual-channel, double-data-rate PC3200 memory. Other features include two built-in Gigabit LANs, two serial ATA hot-swappable hard drives that include RAID 0 and RAID 1 features, and […]

Intel Corp.s latest generation 64-bit chip, the Itanium 2 6M, may be getting the lions share of attention this week, but IBM officials on Monday said the processor falls short of their own Power chips. In a brief phone conference with reporters, Adalio Sanchez, general manager of IBMs eServer pSeries, said Powered-based systems continue to […]

Enterprises will see their server options grow over the next few months as Gateway Inc., NEC Solutions America Inc. and Fujitsu PC Corp. each take the wraps off new and enhanced hardware. Gateway in August will roll out a four-processor server, the fifth system the Poway, Calif., company will have launched since reviving its server […]

Supporters of two up-and-coming Interconnect Technologies are making a push to make them more familiar to end users. The InfiniBand Trade Association—led by IBM, Intel Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc.—tried to answer at an event here last week the questions that have dogged the technology since it was introduced in 2000: How much major OEM […]

Intel Corp.s rollout of its stable imaging program could be a boost to enterprises as they go through PC and laptop replacement cycles. For the past several years, major OEMs have been offering computers with up to 12-month stable image guarantees: a promise that over that one-year period, the computer makers will not make changes […]

RLX Technologies Inc. is partnering with Topspin Communications Inc. to bring InfiniBand capabilities to its blade servers. Officials with RLX, of The Woodlands, Texas, said they have made their high-end blade servers InfiniBand-ready by building the capabilities into the chassis. The deal with Topspin, announced Monday, will enable RLX to put its InfiniBand plan into […]

Intel Corp. 18 months ago created a division within the company to address the needs of the HPC (high-performance computing) industry. Officials with the chip maker believe that work is beginning to pay off. When the list of the top 500 most powerful computers in the world is released on Monday, 119 of them will […]

NEW YORK—In his keynote address this morning at the CeBIT America show here, PeopleSoft Inc. President and CEO Craig Conway made only a passing reference to the controversy swirling around rival Oracle Corp.s hostile bid to acquire his company, but the tone of his speech made it clear that he expects PeopleSoft to be around […]

NEW YORK—NEC Solutions America Inc. is preparing to roll out several new servers over the next few months as it continues to try to expand its U.S. presence. The Sacramento, Calif., company in the third quarter will release to new systems in its fault tolerant line of servers targeted at the mid-market and high end. […]

NEW YORK—Since introducing the first silicon in 2000, the backers of the InfiniBand have been dogged by the same questions: how much major OEM support is the interconnect really going to get and how much interest will there be among enterprise users? On Tuesday, the InfiniBand Trade Association tried to answer those questions. At an […]