Scott Ferguson

VMware is promising customers that it will improve the way it installs and updates its vast array of virtualization products, following serious issues those same customers faced after the virtualization company released a faulty update for its ESX and ESXi products. In a Sept. 11 e-mail to customers, VMware CEO and President Paul Maritz further […]

Dell is rolling out an assortment of virtualization offerings, along with new server and storage systems, that the PC vendor believes will boost its ability to offer hardware, software and services for the virtualized data center. Dell is launching its new virtualization initiative Sept. 10, just a few days before the start of the 2008 […]

While the U.S. economy is continuing its year-long struggle, the worldwide PC market is still growing at a double-digit rate and is receiving a boost from the newfound interest in low-cost notebooks such as the Asus Eee PC. In a survey released Sept. 10, IDC found that worldwide PC shipments are expected to increase 15.7 […]

The changes within VMware’s top management continued as Mendel Rosenblum, the chief scientist and one of the co-founders of the virtualization company, announced he would leave VMware and return to academia full time. In a statement released Sept. 9, a VMware spokeswoman confirmed that Rosenblum, who created the company in 1998 with his wife and […]

Intel is now shipping the first in a new line of solid-state SATA (Serial ATA) drives that will specifically target notebooks and desktops and initially offer up to 80GB of data storage capacity. Intel first detailed its new line of SSDs (solid state drives) at its Developer Forum in August and announced Sept. 8 that […]

The battle to create the notebook with the most battery life stepped up a notch this week when Hewlett-Packard announced a new set of features for its HP EliteBook 6930p that will push the battery life up to 24 hours. HP’s claims of a notebook with 24-hour battery life come just about a month after […]

Intel is planning to release four new Xeon processors, including a low-watt, quad-core chip, as the company gears up to roll out its “Dunnington” processor for large multisocket server systems later in September. On Sept. 8, Intel will release three new quad-core Xeon processors-the Xeon L5430, the X5470 and the X5492-along with a dual-core Xeon […]

NEW YORK-Hewlett-Packard is teaming up with Mozilla and Symantec to create a more secure Web browser that will add an extra layer of security and virtualization capabilities to the corporate desktop. At a show here Sept. 8 to demonstrate the upcoming HP Compaq dc7900 business desktop, HP also detailed what it calls the HP Firefox […]

Dell is now preparing to jump into the low-cost notebook market with its own creation called the Inspiron Mini 9, which looks to compete against a group of similar offerings from Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Asus and other PC vendors. Dell officially released the Mini 9 notebook or “netbook” on Sept. 4, but the company had been […]

Red Hat is looking to jump into the desktop virtualization market and announced Sept. 4 that it would acquire startup Qumranet for $107 million. Red Hat, which is developing its own embedded hypervisor, is clearly targeting the emerging desktop virtualization market, which is beginning to take shape with products such as Citrix XenDesktop and VMware’s […]