Scott Ferguson

Advanced Micro Devices has released a pair of new Phenom processors, along with two more Athlon chips, that will round out the chip maker’s offerings for its recently released corporate desktop platform. The new AMD processors, which the company announced Aug. 14, include a high-end, quad-core Phenom X4 9750B (2.4GHz) processor and a triple-core Phenom […]

VMware is re-issuing the updates for its ESX and ESXi Server products, which fixes the software time element flaws that led to the virtualization company’s users not being able to power on virtual machines and shutting down its Vmotion technology. VMware customers and partners first began finding problems with the Update 2 patch for the […]

Updated: VMware customers and partners are experiencing disruptions after trying to download an update for the company’s ESX and ESXi 3.5 products. The update is causing a failure when trying to power on a virtual machine and additional problems with VMware’s Vmotion technology. The problems, which were first reported Aug. 12, appear to have been […]

Virtual Iron Software, which is continuing to carve out a niche as a supplier of x86 virtualization technologies to small and midsize businesses, is updating its main virtualization product with a new power management feature. At the end of August, Virtual Iron plans to release Version 4.4 of its Virtual Iron virtual infrastructure suite, to […]

Lenovo is rolling out its latest mobile workstation, dubbed the ThinkPad W700, which will sport Intel’s quad-core mobile processor and the latest Nvidia Quadro graphics chip. At the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles Aug. 12, Lenovo will offer details behind its latest mobile workstation, including a chance for some to see the yet-to-be-released Intel Core […]

Advanced Micro Devices is roaring back into the high-end discrete graphics market with the just released ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card that will compete against the best Nvidia has to offer. The ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, which AMD is touting as the “world’s fastest graphics card,” is expected to deliver 2.4 teraflops, […]

Dell is looking to broaden the reach of its enterprise notebook portfolio with the launch of seven new Latitude “E” notebooks for business users and three Precision mobile workstations. During several Aug. 12 events, Dell unveiled some its most ambitious notebook designs to date for the enterprise market, including a 2.2-pound ultraportable Latitude notebook with […]

Intel is slashing the prices on some of its high-end desktop PC and server processors and adding some new chips to its portfolio following the release of the chip maker’s naming scheme for Nehalem. The changes to Intel’s chip pricing were officially released Aug. 10, and those changes include cutting the price of the high-end […]

Hewlett-Packard is strengthening its ProCurve Networking portfolio by acquiring Colubris Networks, which will allow HP to expand its networking infrastructure offerings into vertical markets such as healthcare, manufacturing and hospitality. HP, which is about to close its $13 billion deal for Electronic Data Systems, announced its latest acquisition Aug 11. The financial details were not […]

Intel is planning to devote most of its energy at IDF on detailing the features behind its processor microarchitecture dubbed “Nehalem,” including a new brand name for this upcoming family of desktop chips. Intel is expected to officially brand the processors that will be built on the Nehalem architecture as Intel Core on Aug. 11. […]