Scott Ferguson

At its Developer Forum in Taiwan this week, Intel executives demonstrated the company’s upcoming Moorestown platform for mobile Internet devices that will use a new system-on-a-chip design called “Lincroft” as well as a new generation of processors based on the new “Nehalem” microarchitecture. The Intel Developer Forum, which kicked off Oct. 20, allowed Intel to […]

Laptops, Smart Phones on Display at Gartner Expo No Title In August, Dell rolled out a new line called the Latitude E-series for business users. The Latitude E6400 is what Dell calls a “mainstream” notebook, with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and a 14.1-inch display. Dell also claims that with a combination of […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – With the ongoing financial crisis and the credit crunch in the United States continuing, Gartner and Forrester Research have issued separate reports that point to less IT spending in 2009, with purchases of PCs and servers already slowing down this year. At its 2008 Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner analysts released a report that trimmed […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-At a talk before thousands of IT professionals at Gartner’s annual expo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer defended the company’s rollout of its Windows Vista operating system nearly two years after the OS was delivered to negative reviews. Ballmer, speaking at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo here Oct. 16, Ballmer used a familiar Microsoft line in defending […]

HP Rolls Out Its POD Mobile Data Center at Gartner Expo No Title While Hewlett-Packard first began talking about the POD mobile data center in July, the company officially rolled out the container at the 2008 Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in October. No Title A fully loaded HP POD container measures 8 by 40 feet and can […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – Hewlett-Packard is beginning to roll out its new mobile data center called the POD or Performance Optimized Data Center, which the IT giant hopes will compete against similar high-density, mobile container offerings from IBM, Sun Microsystems and others. HP first announced the POD in July, but the company is now beginning to […]

The growing presence of low-cost notebooks, such as the Asus Eee PC and the Dell Inspiron Mini 9, helped the worldwide PC market grow by double digits in the third quarter of 2008, but the growing financial crisis in the United States is continuing to have an impact, according to IDC. For the third quarter, […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – When it comes to building out cloud computing infrastructures in the next two years, two of the world’s largest and most formidable IT companies – Google and Microsoft – are preparing to pour money and resources into developing significantly different models of how this type of computing should look and feel. While […]

While virtualization, especially in the context of virtualization within x86 hardware, remains one of the most important technologies being considered by IT managers right now, the challenges that virtualization will present in the next decade require strategic planning now. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008 in Orlando, Fla., the research firm’s analysts were detailing a vision […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-Hewlett-Packard and Dell retained their status as the world’s two largest suppliers of desktops and notebooks despite the global economic downturn and increased competition from Acer and other low-cost laptop vendors. In the third quarter of 2008, HP shipped nearly 14.8 million PCs and retained its spot as the world’s top supplier of desktops […]