Scott Ferguson

Mendel Rosenblum still straddles two worlds. A professor within Stanford University’s Computer Science department, Rosenblum teaches and studies how modern operating systems work. He’s also chief scientist at VMware, a company he helped start 10 years ago (and where his wife, Diane Greene, is president and CEO). While 2007 was breakout year for Rosenblum’s once-small […]

Upgrading to Vista? Dell wants to hear from you. Starting March 25, Dell is offering a new service designed for large enterprises that are considering upgrading or migrating to a new desktop operating system. While Dell’s Client Migration Solution is designed to offer services, consulting and other tools for any sort of OS upgrade, it’s […]

David Yen, executive vice president of Sun Microsystems’ Microelectronics Division, is leaving the original equipment manufacturer for a new position at Juniper Networks. Yen’s department comes less than a year after he helped bring Sun’s UltraSPARC T2 processor – also known as Niagara 2 – onto the market. Sun announced that Yen left the company […]

Intel is expanding its lineup of 45-nanometer processors with a pair of quad-core Xeon chips that run at 50 watts, the company announced March 25. The two new Xeons, the L5410 and the L5420, now give the company more than 35 different microprocessors within its Penryn family of 45-nm chips. Intel first introduced this line […]

Worldwide PC shipments are expected to increase almost 11 percent in 2008, but concerns about the sluggish U.S. economy could push that number down into the single digits by year’s end, according to the latest research from Gartner. Even with the U.S. economy slowing down in 2008, Gartner analysts believe that shipments of notebooks and […]

Sun Microsystems is getting a $44.3 million boost from the government to develop a new way to connect microprocessors together using lasers instead of traditional copper wire. The company and the U.S. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the research section of the Department of Defense, announced the funding March 24. The money will pay […]

VMware plans to invest $100 million in India over the next two years, adding more engineers and developers to its staff and increasing its research and development operations with a new facility. During a March 24 news conference in Bangalore, India, CEO Diane Greene said the investment would include an 82,000-sqaure-foot development center in the […]

Marathon Technologies is looking to lock down virtual environments. The Littleton, Mass., company, which is best known for creating high-availability environments for Microsoft applications, is now turning its attention to creating secure, fault-tolerant virtual environments. Marathon released the beta of its EverRun VM software March 24, with general availability slated for the end of April. […]

Dell says its solid state drives are working just fine. Officials with the PC vendor are denying a report released by Avian Securities that the SSDs the company offers as an option with many of its PCs have a high rate of failure and suffer from performance problems. Dell also denied that the return rate […]

Hewlett-Packard is adding another virtualization option to its line of ProLiant systems. Company officials announced March 19 that they will begin embedding a co-developed version of Citrix’s XenServer virtualization software into 10 different ProLiant systems starting March 31. They also have developed a set of management tools that will create and control the various virtual […]

Advanced Micro Devices is denying reports in several publications that it is preparing to cut 5 percent of its 16,000-person work force after less-than-expected sales in the first quarter of 2008. In an e-mail, Michael Silverman, a spokesman for the Sunnyvale, Calif., company, wrote, “We did not have a workforce reduction.” He declined to comment […]

IBM is breaking ground in Dublin, Ireland, for one of the first cloud computing centers to serve users in Europe and beyond. The Cloud Computing Center is being developed in conjunction with the Industrial Development Agency of Ireland, a government agency that looks for overseas investment, with the goal of creating a major hub for […]