John G. Spooner

Dell and the channel are secretly growing fond of each other. More and more VARs (value-added resellers), indifferent to shrinking hardware margins and prodded by price-sensitive customers, say they are buying Dell computers for their clients. The Round Rock, Texas, PC maker embraced resellers by granting them visits from account representatives, sales support and even […]

The long-term care of PCs, just like people, can be expensive. For New London Hospital, which needed to replace several hundred aging desktop PCs recently, thin clients were the answer. The hospital now has nearly 300 ClearCube blade PCs. The machines, which are located in the data center and accessible only via a desktop port […]

David Foss needed new computers, stat. As the CIO at New London Hospital in New London, N.H., Foss had to devise a method for replacing the facilitys entire aging fleet of desktop PCs while better securing its sensitive patient data, easing the systems management load on its technology department and gaining a solid return on […]

A trip to a remote-controlled model airplane show more than three years ago will result in a new fan design in Hewlett-Packard blade servers later this summer. HPs Active Cool Fans design, which will first appear in the next generation of the companys BladeSystem servers, is one of several initiatives to combat rising data center […]

Chip startup Multigig said that its got an answer to rising data center power bills. The 12-employee, Scotts Valley, Calif., company, which emerged from secrecy on May 8, has created new processor clock technology that it says can halve processor power consumption by recycling most of the electricity used to regulate processor clocks. The technology, […]

Intel is regrouping its flash memory operation. The chip maker, which has been conducting a sweeping business review after suffering market share losses to rival Advanced Micro Devices in the recent past, is seeking to streamline its NOR Flash Products Group, one half its Flash Memory Group, by consolidating its NOR manufacturing, research and development […]

NEW YORK—Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun Microsystems, competitors who rarely see eye-to-eye, are seemingly putting aside their differences to promote greener corporate data centers. Dell, along with American Power Conversion and VMware, on May 2 joined the Green Grid Alliance, founded on April 19 by companies including Advanced Micro Devices, HP, IBM and Sun. The […]

Intel wants to lay a virtual trap for hackers. The chip maker, which launched its vPro brand for business desktops April 24, aims to increase PC security by stepping up the vPro machines ability to proactively guard against malware. The company will employ virtualization technology—which can partition a PC to run different types of software […]

Mea culpa, Intel. Executives at the chip maker, in taking responsibility for the companys poor performance of late, are making some changes. Intel CEO Paul Otellini, speaking at the companys annual financial analysts meeting in New York on April 27, hinted that the chip maker may reduce its 100,000-employee work force and jettison underperforming businesses […]

Intel wants to lay a virtual trap for hackers. The chip maker, which launched its vPro brand for business desktops April 24, aims to increase PC security by stepping up the vPro machines abilities to proactively guard against malware. The company will employ virtualization technology—which can partition a PC to run different types of software […]