Scott Ferguson

Intel dominated the world’s market for x86 microprocessors in the third quarter of 2008 thanks to increased shipments of notebook processors, according to an Oct. 23 report from Mercury Research. Overall, the worldwide shipments of x86 processors increased 13 percent in the third quarter of 2008 compared with the same period last year. Normally, the […]

Hewlett-Packard is targeting mechanical CAD workers and the financial service industry with a new thin-client PC and blade workstation combination that offers better graphics performance and multiple display support. HP is set to announce both the HP gt7725 thin-client PC and the HP ProLiant xw2x220c blade workstation on Oct. 22. The two products add to […]

When it comes to accessing the Internet, more users are turning to their smart phones and other mobile devices rather than traditional PCs, according to a new IBM-sponsored survey released Oct. 23. The survey, which interviewed 600 consumers in United States, China and the United Kingdom, found that 50 percent of users would rather use […]

Rackspace Hosting, which had an initial public offering in August, is looking to expand its hosted cloud computing offerings with several acquisitions and partnerships that will allow the company to better compete against Amazon.com and its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. On Oct. 22, Rackspace plans to announce its acquisitions of Slicehost, which has developed Xen-based […]

Sun Microsystems is expanding its portfolio of blade servers to include new systems that take advantage of the company’s own UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor along with Advanced Micro Devices’ quad-core Opteron chip. In addition to the AMD and UltraSPARC systems the company introduced Oct. 21, Sun unveiled a storage blade-the Sun Blade 6000-that offers up […]

VMware CEO Paul Maritz believes that his company is not losing ground in the x86 virtualization market to Microsoft and its Hyper-V software and that VMware’s own product road map remains 12 to 24 months ahead of anything Microsoft plans to offer in the future. Maritz made those comments about Microsoft and the state of […]

IBM is looking to pack all the power of its full-size mainframe system into a smaller, lower-priced package when its releases the IBM System z10 Business Class mainframe on Oct. 21. The IBM System z10 Business Class is the lower-cost and smaller version of the full-size, $1 million System z10 mainframe that IBM released in […]

Intel offered a sneak preview of its next-generation notebook platform, “Calpella,” at its fall Intel Developer Forum in Taiwan. The new platform will offer processors based on Intel’s “Nehalem” microarchitecture and a number of power-saving features to increase battery life in laptops. At the IDF show, Shmuel ‘Mooly’ Eden, vice president and general manager of […]

Sun Microsystems Offers New Blade Server, Storage Blades No Title The Sun Blade T6340, which is based on the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor. No Title The Sun Blade X6240, which is based on AMD’s quad-core Opteron 2300 processor. No Title The Sun Blade 6000 storage blade, which offers up to 1.2TB of data storage. No […]

Intel is cutting the prices on several of its processors, including the company’s high-end Core 2 Quad desktop processors, a little less than a week after reporting its third-quarter financial results and as the chip giant gears up for the release of its first Nehalem-based microprocessors in November. On Oct. 19, Intel posted the cuts […]