Jeff Burt

Former Vice President Al Gore is the newest member of Apple Computer Inc.s board of directors. The members elected Gore to the board on Wednesday. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a prepared statement that Gore “brings an incredible wealth of knowledge and wisdom to Apple from having run the largest organization in the world—the […]

A Silicon Valley server maker, which already offers a host of systems powered by chips from both Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., will launch dual-processor slim servers running on AMDs upcoming Opteron chip. Officials at Appro International Inc. said they demonstrated the 1U and 2U servers at the CeBIT conference in Hannover, Germany, […]

Apple Computer Inc. has come out with a slimmed-down version of its Xserve server aimed at businesses interested in clustering their systems. The cluster configuration of the rack-mounted Xserve includes a lot of the features found in its full-size counterpart—dual 1.33GHz PowerPC G4 chips, including 2MB of Level 3 cache per chip and up to […]

IBM will continue to plug its Power4+ processor into its pSeries line of Unix servers this year. But Big Blue officials already are looking at what will happen next year when it begins rolling out systems powered by the next-generation chip, the Power5. The Armonk, N.Y., company already has put the 1.45GHz Power4+ into its […]

Gateway Inc. is closing 76 more of its Gateway Country Stores and laying off 1,900 more workers in its effort to pare expenses and return to profitability. Officials with the Poway, Calif., computer maker on Monday said the measures were the latest moves to reduce costs by more than $400 million, with at least half […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday introduced the newest of its tc2100 line of servers targeted at small and midsize businesses. The Palo Alto, Calif., companys tc2120 includes performance and power enhancements over the current tc2110 server and bridges the gap between the tc2100 offerings and HPs family of Intel-based ProLiant ML300 servers. The tc2120 is powered […]

When Intel Corp. launched its last week, it was accompanied by enthusiastic OEMs, each eager to talk about the smaller, lighter notebooks under development. However, the new technology isnt getting the same reception from some potential users. A handful of IT managers contacted by eWeek last week said they wanted to look before leaping into […]

U.S.-based enterprises got a new high-end server option last week as Fujitsu Technology Solutions Inc. began shipping the fifth generation of its Solaris-compatible PrimePower servers and laid out an aggressive road map for using its SPARC64 chip technology. The Sunnyvale, Calif., companys offerings included the PrimePower 16-processor 900, 32-processor 1500 and 128-processor 2500 servers. All […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday released the latest Netra product for the telecommunications industry, the Netra CP2300 blade server. The blade server, which was unveiled at the CTIA Wireless 2003 show in New Orleans, is NEBS (Network Equipment Building Standard) Level 3 compliant, a key standard for telecom servers that often are housed in harsher […]

IBM is selling 92 of its eServer pSeries 655 servers to the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center to create a supercomputing environment designed to help researchers learn more about salmon and whitefish populations in the Gulf of Alaska. Each of the 92 p655 servers will contain eight of IBMs 64-bit Power4 chips. Two p690 serversthat also […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Topspin Communications Inc. will jointly develop and license InfiniBand technology, according to an agreement announced by the two companies Friday. Sun will begin rolling out InfiniBand-ready server and storage hardware in 2004, according to John Davis, director of volume systems products at the Santa Clara, Calif., company. Sun will leverage Topspins […]

Fujitsu Technology Solutions Inc., looking to push its way into the U.S. server space, has begun shipping the fifth generation of its Solaris-compatible PrimePower high-end servers and is laying out an aggressive roadmap for its SPARC64 chip technology. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company—a member of Fujitsu Ltd.s group of businesses—on Wednesday said it has started shipping […]