Scott Ferguson

IBM is preparing to open four new cloud computing centers in India, Brazil, South Korea and Vietnam, which will give the IT giant a significant and fresh opportunity to sell its products and services in emerging-market countries. The four new cloud computing centers are in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Bangalore, India; Seoul, South Korea; and Hanoi, […]

Dell is finally getting around to releasing its 17-inch Precision M6400 mobile workstation, which supports the latest dual- and quad-core Intel processors and offers an optional solid state drive. When Dell rolled out its revamped Latitude E series of notebooks in August, the company’s executives made a passing reference to several new mobile workstations in […]

NASA is turning to IBM and its iDataPlex server array to build a new supercomputer that can execute 42 teraflops and will help collect data from a series of satellites that observe both the Earth and the universe. On Sept. 23, IBM is planning to announce that it will build the new supercomputer at the […]

Intel Capital, the global invest arm of Intel, is taking a $20 million stake in Telligent Systems, which has created a collaboration and social-networking computing platform for businesses including Intel. The $20 million investment by Intel Capital was announced Sept. 23. In a statement, the two companies said that Telligent has already collected an initial […]

When it comes to virtualization, whether it’s in the data center, up in the cloud or down on the desktop, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are preparing to expand the capabilities of their processors and chip sets to better handle workloads in virtual environments. While the recent VMworld conference focused on how VMware would build […]

Intel is now officially shipping its first dual-core Atom processor for low-cost desktops or what the chip maker calls “nettops.” The Intel Atom Processors 330, which is the first in Intel’s Atom line to sport two processing cores, officially went on sale Sept. 21. The cost, according to Intel’s Web site, is $43 when the […]

Intel is sprucing up its vPro management and security technology for corporate desktops by adding new features, including allowing PCs to “call” an IT administrator for help. Intel is also working with partners and ISVs to improve the ability to create a virtual desktop infrastructure by using vPro technology. Intel announced the latest enhancements to […]

IBM is claiming a significant breakthrough in the race with Intel to produce the first 22-nanometer microprocessors for use in an array of products from large-scale server systems to smaller, more power-efficient cell phones and PDAs. With current technology, companies such as Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and IBM are pushing their way toward producing processors […]

Lenovo is preparing to update its ThinkPad notebook lineup with an ultraportable laptop model called the ThinkPad X200s and a tablet, the ThinkPad X200, which will eventually replace the older ThinkPad X61 tablet PC. While the two new ThinkPad notebooks will not be officially released until Sept. 23, Lenovo previewed the ultraportable and tablet models […]

Nvidia announced Sept. 18 that it will cut 360 employees from its worldwide work force as the graphics maker is facing increasing competition from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel. In a statement, Nvidia announced that it will eliminate about 6.5 percent of its work force by the end of October. The company then plans to […]

LAS VEGAS-For VMware CEO and President Paul Maritz, the future of virtualization and his company’s upcoming data center management platform-Virtual DataCenter OS-is more than just providing a platform for cloud computing. Instead, Maritz envisions VMware’s virtualization as being the engine for a new type of flexible, scalable data center that gives enterprises whole new ways […]

LAS VEGAS-While much of the talk at VMworld has focused on VMware’s concept of building and managing cloud computing infrastructures, the company’s executives have said little about how the company plans to pull all the different parts together into one set of offerings. That changed on the second day of the show here when Stephen […]