Jeff Burt

IBM has enlisted help from networking vendor Cisco Systems Inc. to build out its grid computing vision. Cisco and several other companies last week joined with IBM to form a group that plans to encourage grid computing among businesses. In addition, IBM last week announced grid computing offerings for four more industries, joining the five […]

F5 Networks Inc. and startup Consera Software Inc. both are rolling out new and enhanced software designed to help corporations more easily manage, monitor and provision their server infrastructures. Seattle-based F5 this week will unveil the latest version of its blade server management software, Big-IP Blade Controller 4.5. The update includes increased application traffic direction […]

Matt Merrick was worried. In the fall of 2001, Merrick, executive vice president of IT at The Merrick Printing Company Inc., was deep into the process of standardizing his data center on NetServer systems from Hewlett-Packard Co. HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., then announced its intent to buy Compaq Computer Corp. for about $19 billion, […]

A small server maker this week is rolling out a Linux-based Serial ATA workstation designed to combine with Intels Xeon chips to give users greater hard drive speed and greater performance. Pogo Linuxs Velocity-DX is the industrys first Linux workstation with a Serial ATA hard drive, said company officials. The workstation has a Velocity Seagate […]

Neoware Systems Inc. is rolling out software designed to enable enterprises to turn their PCs into thin client appliances. ThinPC, which Neoware is unveiling on Monday, gives enterprises the benefits of thin clients—from greater security to more centralized application management and upgrades—without having to get rid of the PCs in which theyve invested so much, […]

this week is launching a Web portal for Windows hardware and driver developers aimed at bringing more consistency to PCs running the operating system. Windows Hardware and Driver Central is scheduled to be launched Monday at Microsofts in New Orleans. The portal will serve as both an information depot and interactive community for the hardware […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Friday realigned their three hardware divisions into a single business unit in an attempt to grow share and profits in the server and storage markets, said Peter Blackmore, executive vice president of HPs Enterprise Systems Group (ESG). The three divisions—the Business Critical Systems, Industry Standard Servers and Network Storage Solutions—will now be […]

LAS VEGAS—For MPC Computers LLC, the story line is rapidly becoming more than simply computers. Less than two years ago, the company—formerly MicronPC—was bleeding money. But it recently wrapped up its sixth consecutive profitable quarter since being acquired by the Gores Technology Group, and is using the money its earning to quickly expand its product […]

LAS VEGAS—Dell Computer Corp. unveiled three new PowerConnect managed network switches, including a new family of devices offering 24 or 48 Fast Ethernet ports. The PowerConnect 3324 and 3348 Fast Ethernet switches, introduced at the N+I show here, will be available this summer, said Kim Goodman, vice president and general manager of Dells networking business. […]

LAS VEGAS—High performance computing is where InfiniBand will make its initial mark, and Voltaire Inc. officials want to make sure that mark is made with their products. At the N+I show here, Voltaire unveiled a starter kit to enable users and resellers to quickly deploy InfiniBand clusters in high performance computing environments. The Bedford, Mass., […]

RLX Technologies Inc. on Wednesday went through its second executive shakeup in less than three years when it named Douglas J. Erwin chairman and CEO and Kevin Klausmeyer as chief financial officer. Erwin replaces Pat Collins, who had been CEO of the company—one of the pioneers of the blade server technology—since October 2001, when he […]

LAS VEGAS—Its been a busy week here for storage giant EMC Corp., what with announcements surrounding partnerships with Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. and the addition of new data movement capabilities in its software. But all of the news followed a similar theme, and that is that networked storage will continue to grow, and […]