Scott Ferguson

Intel and Microsoft are setting aside $20 million to establish a pair of academic centers that will study and develop new methods to increase the use of parallel computing, the two companies announced March 18. The UPCRC (Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers) are being established at the University of California at Berkeley and the University […]

Sun Microsystems wants to show that it is more than just a high-end enterprise shop. The Santa Clara, Calif., company, which has traditionally catered to large financial firms, telecommunications companies and the federal government, is looking to expand its reach to include small yet tech-savvy companies with a need for a more robust IT infrastructure […]

IBM researchers are taking the next significant step in developing microprocessors that use light beams instead of traditional copper wires to transmit data from one processing core to another. In a paper published March 17 in the journal Nature Photonics, IBM engineers detail a new nanophotonic silicon broadband switch that will route optical pulse signals […]

Citrix and Lenovo are partnering to bring virtualization technology to the Chinese market. The deal, announced March 17, means that Lenovo will certify, support and integrate Citrix’s XenServer and other virtualization products into the servers it sells in China. Citrix entered the virtualization market in force in 2007 when it bought XenSource, which bases its […]

At its European customer showcase, Hewlett-Packard will detail a laundry list of new services and other offerings that look to better manage and control the data center form the physical hardware to virtual environments.The HP Technology at Work Conference starts March 17 in Barcelona, and company executives will focus on the slate of new services […]

Hewlett-Packard has picked Spain to talk about AMD’s “Barcelona.”At its Technology at Work conference, which starts March 17 in Spain, HP will detail its new ProLiant DL785 G5, the company’s first system to support Advanced Micro Devices’ quad-core Opteron processors, formerly code-named Barcelona.The server is one of several announcements that HP will make at its […]

Intel is preparing a new six-core processor for high-end systems. During a conference call to discuss the 2008 Developer Forum in Shanghai, China, Pat Gelsinger, Intel’s senior vice president of the Digital Enterprise Group, said that the new chip, code-named Dunnington, will be available in multisocket systems starting in the second half of this year. […]

Intel is turning the spotlight on Nehalem. After spending most of 2008 detailing its chips and platforms for new lines of mobile Internet devices and low-cost notebooks, Intel is now offering some additional details about Nehalem-the company’s line of microprocessors based on a new microarchitecture that is set to debut later this year. In a […]

Despite growing concerns about the overall health of the U.S. economy and IT spending, PC shipments are expected to grow more than 12 percent this year, with laptops driving demand in both the consumer and commercial markets, according to new research for IDC. In its March 12 report, IDC is predicting that vendors will ship […]

The world is still waiting for a glimpse of AMD’s triple-core processor. While Advanced Micro Devices introduced the unique concept of a desktop microprocessor with three cores in September, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company has stayed quiet about when and where this version of its Phenom chip would appear in the market. Now, some of the […]

When Intel rolls out its new line of microprocessors for low-cost notebooks later this year, don’t be surprised if these PCs find their way into businesses. Emerging markets and educational endeavors are not the only places where these inexpensive PCs will have an impact. As Intel prepares to launch its Atom line of processors for […]

There is something missing from VMware’s new campus on Hillview Avenue in Palo Alto, Calif.: any mention of the company’s corporate parent, storage giant EMC. Since EMC bought VMware in 2004 for $635 million, VMware has remained the most independent of subsidiaries in the larger company’s portfolio. Diane Greene, a co-founder of the company, has […]