Scott Ferguson

ORLANDO, Fla.-When it comes to the future of cloud computing, CEOs John Chambers and Larry Ellison have different visions of what this technology can do for enterprise computing. While Oracle’s Ellison threw cold water on the cloud computing hype at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in September, Cisco’s Chambers embraced the concept of cloud computing at […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – While many enterprises might try to cut down IT expenses in the next year as Wall Street’s financial crisis continues, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers is looking to invest in his own company’s information technology. During his Oct. 14 keynote address at the Gartner Symposium/IT Expo, Chambers said Cisco will increase its […]

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Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu are rolling out a jointly developed midrange system, the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, which is based on Sun’s UltraSPARC T2 plus processor and is designed to run database and CRM applications. With the new T5440 system, Sun and Fujitsu are looking to bring a midrange offering into the midmarket and enterprise […]

When Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, the two largest suppliers of x86 processors for PCs and servers, report their 2008 third-quarter financial results in a few days, industry watchers will be looking for signs of how those numbers will reflect the ongoing financial crisis and its impact on the IT industry in the coming months. […]

While worldwide semiconductor revenue is still expected to top $280 billion this year, the ongoing financial crisis on Wall Street and falling prices for dynamic RAM memory chips are forcing iSuppi to reduce its annual forecast for the industry. On Oct. 9, the iSuppli research firm trimmed its 2008 revenue growth forecast for the semiconductor […]

Micron Technology, one of the world’s largest producers of memory chips, is closing down its NAND flash memory production facility in Boise, Idaho, and will cut 15 percent of its 22,600-person work force, the company announced Oct. 9. In closing this facility, Micron is reacting to the continuing worldwide drop in the price of memory. […]

The ongoing Wall Street financial crisis, along with an oversupply of DRAM (dynamic RAM) and NAND flash memory, is likely to slash what the semiconductor industry spends on manufacturing and other capital expenditures by 25 percent in 2008, according to a new survey by Gartner. In 2008, the semiconductor industry, which includes Intel, Advanced Micro […]

Unisys, which announced a plan earlier this year that would offer customers more software and services, is reaching back to its hardware roots to update its midrange ClearPath systems with new Intel processors. In addition to adding Intel’s X7300 series Xeon processors to its ClearPath Dorado 4000 and Libra 4000 server systems, Unisys also announced […]

While Lenovo, Acer and a host of other PC vendors are offering up WiMax options with their laptops, the world’s two largest suppliers of PCs-Hewlett-Packard and Dell-are taking a wait-and-see attitude for the time being. On Oct. 8, the same day Sprint and Intel in Baltimore rolled out Xohm, the first commercially available U.S. WiMax […]