Scott Ferguson

Intel is looking to bundle solid state drive technology into its upcoming Centrino 2 platform for notebooks, which is scheduled to launch in late June, according to a published report. The chip giant will first add an SSD with a capacity of 80GB and a SATA (Serial ATA) interface to the platform, which has been […]

When the news came that Hewlett-Packard would acquire Electronic Data Systems for more than $13 billion earlier this month, all eyes turned toward the looming services battle between HP and market leader IBM. Then there’s Dell. For a number of years, Dell had been one of the main suppliers of PCs and other hardware through […]

Hewlett-Packard edged out IBM in both worldwide server revenue and shipments in the first quarter of 2008 as businesses bought x86-based systems to help build out Web data centers and emerging market countries continued to invest in their infrastructure, according to a May 22 report from Gartner. In the first quarter, HP’s server revenue topped […]

While Hewlett-Packard’s second quarter financial results were in line with Wall Street expectations, the numbers also seem to indicate the ongoing problems with U.S. economy are starting to affect both consumer and commercial spending, especially when it comes to buying PCs. HP, which is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., is a major bellwether of the […]

IBMs Roadrunner Speeds Toward a Petaflop A Piece of the PuzzleWhen it’s complete, Roadrunner will take up 6,000 square feet and weigh more than 500,000 pounds. Here’s one of the 18 different “connected units” that will make up Roadrunner. IBMs Roadrunner Speeds Toward a Petaflop – IBMs Tri-blade At the heart of Roadrunner is a […]

Citrix Systems is looking to combine its traditional application delivery technology with its recently developed virtualization offerings into a new way to deliver applications to a fleet of corporate desktops, whether in the main office or at a remote site. At the company’s Synergy user conference, which starts May 20 in Houston, Citrix will offer […]

Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd believes that the $13 billion acquisition of Electronic Data Systems will help build out HP’s enterprise services offerings and “accelerate” the company’s reach into new accounts, he said. In a May 20 conference call with reporters to announce HP’s 2008 second-quarter financial earnings, Hurd offered his thoughts on the upcoming acquisition […]

For more than a week, eWEEK readers have been responding to two articles about the difficulties of trying to install Windows XP Service Pack 3 on Hewlett-Packard desktops that use microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices. The first of these problems with SP3 on HP PCs was documented by bloggers, such as former Microsoft employee Jesper […]

Hewlett-Packard and Wyse Technology, the two leading vendors of thin-client PCs, are attempting to expand their share of this particular niche market and are looking at mobility as the way to gain new users. At the Citrix Systems Synergy user conference on May 20 in Houston, HP and Wyse will have new mobile thin-client PCs […]

VMware is looking to create new standards for building virtualized desktop computing. The Palo Alto, Calif., virtualization vendor is launching new services May 19 that are geared toward helping IT departments design, create and eventually deploy an entire virtualized desktop environment. Click Here to Watch the Latest eWEEK Newsbreak Video. This group of services will […]