Jeff Burt

Sun Microsystems Inc. is cutting the price of its new midrange Unix server by 25 percent on particular configurations. A Sun Fire v1280, with four 64-bit 900MHz UltraSparc III chips, 8GB of memory, two Gigabit Ethernet ports and two 36GB hard drives now costs $59,995, according to the Santa Clara, Calif., company. Licensing for the […]

MPC Computers LLC, which recently ended its sixth profitable quarter after a period of high losses in the PC market, is using the money its earning to quickly expand its product offerings beyond desktops. The Nampa, Idaho, company this month will ship a laptop based on Intel Corp.s Centrino mobile computing package and by the […]

Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Electronic Data Systems Corp. are each developing products and strategies to ease the headaches of running a data center. On the one-year anniversary of its acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp., HP officials here last week laid out their Adaptive Enterprise strategy. The initiative comprises the companys Darwin Reference Architecture framework, which […]

Despite having made a splash last month when it said it will offer Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s 64-bit Opteron chip in some future servers, IBM is not forgoing Intel Corp.s Itanium technology for 64-bit computing. IBM early this month unveiled its eServer xSeries x450 server, which comes with four Itanium 2 processors. Officials at the […]

IBM is getting ready to unleash T Rex, its next-generation mainframe that initially will include 32 chips and such on-demand features as processor on/off capabilities. The eServer z990 system, which will be introduced on Tuesday and available next month, will be upgraded over the next year, growing to 64 chips by 2004 and from 15 […]

An electrical problem within some Itanium 2 chips can cause systems running on the 64-bit processors to “act improperly or shut down,” according to a company spokesperson. The “errata” affects only a small number of Itanium 2 chips within the McKinley line, which run at 900MHz and 1GHz, and will not impact the next-generation Madison […]

InfiniCon Systems Inc. on Monday unveiled an embedded InfiniBand fabric management tool, an entry-level switching system and a dual-port HCA (host channel adapter) designed to comply with PCI-X. “Now, anyone with a PCI-X card can bring in InfiniBand into their system,” said Charles Foley, CEO of the King of Prussia, Pa., company. InfiniCons InfiniView Fabric […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Kevin Kahn has a clear vision of what a “grand and glorious nirvana” looks like: a world where any mobile device can connect into any wireless spectrum at any time. Wireless devices would be armed with a single radio on the silicon that could seamlessly shift from wireless LAN to wireless wide-area network […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Tuesday is releasing the latest of its Athlon MP processors, the 2800+, designed for one- and two-way servers and workstations. The 2800+, with increased Level 2 cache, could be the last of the Athlon MP upgrades, a company spokesman said, as AMD, of Sunnyvale, Calif., moves forward with its , […]

IBM, having upgraded its midrange eServer p650 system with the latest versions of the Power4+ microprocessor, is now turning its attention to other servers within its Unix line. The Armonk, N.Y., tech giant on Tuesday will announce that it is putting more processing power into its 16-way p670 and 32-way p690 systems. The p690 will […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Hewlett-Packard Co.s Adaptive Enterprise strategy, unveiled Tuesday, has shown its mettle over the past 12 months, according to Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina. The Palo Alto, Calif., company has used the principles involved in the initiative—from assessing a business needs to developing a flexible and responsive IT infrastructure to meet those needs—during the […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday rolled out its Adaptive Enterprise strategy, an initiative the combines services, software and hardware to create what officials here said is a more flexible IT infrastructure. HP announced the new initiative on the one-year anniversary of its The initiative is the next step in a push to virtualize data […]