Scott Ferguson

Diane Greene, who co-founded VMware and helped turn the company into the most influential of all the x86 virtualization vendors, is leaving her post as CEO and president and will be replaced by former Microsoft executive Paul Maritz. VMware’s board of directors announced the sudden shift in leadership in a July 8 statement. In the […]

The next chapter in VMware’s history is about to begin. With the departure of CEO and President Diane Greene, the question now is where VMware, which did more than any other company to bring x86 virtualization into the mainstream, will go from here as a company without the leader so closely associated with its success. […]

Gartner has handed the server revenue crown back to IBM. On July 3, Gartner issued a statement that revised its server revenue numbers for the first quarter of 2008. The findings now place IBM in the No. 1 spot and Hewlett-Packard has been pushed down to second place, although HP shipped more units than any […]

IBM is acquiring mainframe rival Platform Solutions and plans to blend the company’s technology into its own System z mainframes. The July 2 announcement also means that the longstanding legal rivalry between IBM and PSI that involved accusations about intellectual property and unfair competitive practices will come to an end once the purchase is formally […]

Hewlett-Packard is bringing container virtualization to its Integrity server line. On July 2, HP will begin selling and supporting Parallels’ Virtuozzo virtualization software within its Integrity line of servers that are built around Intel’s Itanium processor and include the company’s massive Superdome systems. While the HP Integrity line is mainly known to support the company’s […]

Intel grabbed the lion’s share of world’s microprocessors revenue in the first quarter of 2008, while Advanced Micro Devices managed to bounce back from a disappointing 2007, according to July 1 report from iSuppli. During the first quarter of 2008, Intel claimed 79.7 percent of the world’s microprocessor revenue, an increase of 1.2 percent from […]

Advanced Micro Devices released three new quad-core Phenom processors July 1 as the chip maker continues to try to rebound from a series of financial and product difficulties. The new AMD Phenom processors include the Phenom X4 9950 (2.6GHz) “Black Edition” with overclocking abilities built in for gamers. In addition, the chip maker released two […]

Dell will try to expand the management capabilities of its new M-Series blades by cutting down on some of the complexity of tying virtual servers and storage together. On July 1, Dell will officially begin selling what it calls Dell FlexAddress, which works with its M-Series blade chassis and ties the Fibre Channel WWN (World […]

Dell is looking to give business travelers and IT managers a better way to protect laptops. Starting June 30, Dell will begin offering a group of services for its business laptops that will not only track stolen or missing notebooks but also offer a range of security features that can remotely erase company data from […]

Lenovo is taking another crack at the U.S. consumer market with a new desktop. In what the company heralds as its first “global entry into the consumer desktop market outside of China,” Lenovo began selling the IdeaCentre K210 desktop officially on June 30. Lenovo, which bought IBM’s PC division in 2004, already owns a significant […]