Jeff Burt

IBM may have caused a splash last week when officials said it would begin offering Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s 64-bit Opteron chip in some future servers. But that doesnt mean the tech giant is forgoing Intel Corp. technology for 64-bit computing. IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., on Wednesday unveiled an Itanium 2-powered server, the four-processor x450, […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. next month will begin shipping two workstations powered by Itanium 2 chips and featuring Microsoft Corp.s Windows XP 64-Bit Edition Version 2003. The Palo Alto, Calif., companys zx2000 and zx6000 systems will be available to order on Thursday, and will ship two weeks later, according to an HP spokesperson. Pricing for the one-processor […]

LAS VEGAS—Two weeks after changing its name and headquarters, MCI Corp. on Tuesday began to map out a product roadmap centered around its strategy of “convergence networking,” a single IP platform that brings together data and voice onto one network. The goal is to enable enterprises to bring their disparate communications networks—including local, long-distance, voice […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. showed up with substantial backing from computer hardware and software makers last week as it set the stage for a showdown with chip rival Intel Corp. with the formal introduction of its 64-bit Opteron processing architecture. The brightest name on the marquee was IBM, which took the stage at a press […]

Gateway Inc. on Thursday continued its push into the enterprise systems arena with the launch of an updated version of its management software and with server support of Microsoft Corp.s operating system. Gateway Server Manager 2.1—the first version was rolled out earlier this month—enables multiple communications paths to the servers, including in-band, out-of-band and browser-based […]

Top-tier OEMs are jumping on Microsoft Corp.s Windows Server 2003 bandwagon. Dell Computer Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday both announced the availability of the new operating system on their servers as well as services designed to help customers migrate their businesses onto Windows Server 2003. At the operating systems launch in San Francisco, Dell […]

IBM used Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s launch Tuesday of its long-awaited 64-bit Opteron chip to bulk up its offerings to the high-performance computing world. The Armonk, N.Y., company on Tuesday gave AMD its much-needed top-tier OEM support when Mark Shearer, vice president of IBMs eServer products group, came on stage at the launch event in […]

Hewlett-Packard has rolled out an entry-level workstation that is based on Intels new 3GHz Pentium 4 microprocessor and 875P chip set and includes such functionality as performance acceleration and hyperthreading technologies. Armed with the new Intel technologies, the single-processor HP Workstation xw4100 will offer up to 5 percent performance increases, HP officials said. Although Intel […]

Bucking the trend of filling the data center with multiple small servers, Unisys Corp. this week will launch a Wintel server that can scale up to 106 processors and run an enterprises entire business from a single box. The Blue Bell, Pa., companys ES7000/560 server solves the problem of technology “sprawl” that is proliferating in […]

For No. 2 chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the launch of its 64-bit Opteron server processor this week signals the beginning of what may prove to be a long, difficult march deeper into the enterprise. The chip, initially scheduled for release last year, offers the unique capability to run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications. […]

Intel Corp. has delayed the release of its 3GHz Pentium 4 processor due to anomalies in the new chip. George Alfs, a spokesman for the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker, said that in recent testing, engineers “found an anomaly with” the chip, which was scheduled to be released last week, along with a chip set […]

Intel Corp. has slashed prices on some of its fastest desktop and notebook chips. The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker this weekend cut prices on three of its mobile Pentium 4-M chips—ranging in speeds of 2GHz to 2.4GHz—by as much as 38 percent. Intel also reduced the prices on three of its mobile Celeron chips—the […]