Scott Ferguson

VMware is looking to make it easier to create a centralized computing environment. The company on Jan. 30 released the second version of its Virtual Desktop Manager, which adds additional management features and capabilities for its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure suite. At the 2007 VMworld conference, CEO Diane Greene described Virtual Desktop Manager 2 as a […]

Intel is looking to offer details about its new microprocessors for portable Internet devices at the 2008 International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, which starts Feb. 3. Since the beginning of the year, the Santa Clara, Calif., chip giant has not offered many specific details on its new line of processors, but the company […]

IBM is looking to bolster the virtualization capabilities of both its Power6 processor and its System p servers with an eye toward selling more systems to small businesses, while taking away customers from Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems. The Armonk, N.Y., company announced Jan. 29 a set of virtualization software applications called PowerVM, which works with […]

After a 15-month test drive, Sun Microsystems’ data center on wheels is ready to roll out of the showroom and onto the street. Since October 2006, Sun has been heavily promoting its mobile data center, or “Project Blackbox,” as an alternative to traditional brick-and-mortar data centers. Now, under its official name-Sun Modular Datacenter-the 20-by-8-by-8 trailer […]

Parallels and VMLogix are each rolling out new virtualization products Jan. 28 intended to help customers manage their increasingly virtualized data centers. One of the more significant improvements in the new version of Parallels’ Virtuozzo is the management console-Parallels Infrastructure Manager -which, along with a redesigned interface, should make the virtual environment easier to manage […]

Hewlett-Packard is targeting energy-conscious commercial buyers with a version of its high-end Compaq business desktop that now offers a solid-state drive option instead of the traditional hard disk drive. The company began offering its Compaq dc7800 Ultra-Slim desktop with a 16GB SSD option Jan. 23. In addition, the company rolled out a second business desktop-the […]

Despite a number of significant setbacks with its quad-core microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices maintained most of its share of the worldwide x86 market in 2007, thanks to shipments of its mobile processors, according to a Jan. 24 report from Mercury Research. Although AMD held its ground, Intel retained its dominant position in the x86 market, […]

Lenovo has taken its first step toward entering the worldwide x86 server market. On Jan. 24, Lenovo announced that it would license intellectual property from IBM that will help the company develop and manufacture one- and two-socket x86 servers for the worldwide market. The first of these systems, both rack-mount and tower servers, will hit […]

Intel Capital is investing $10 million in Endeca Technologies, a company that competes against the likes of Google, IBM and others in the enterprise search market and is developing new information access software built around access-optimzed databases. Intel Capital, which made the announcement Jan. 23, is the chip maker’s investment arm. This part of Intel […]

Hewlett-Packard believes the sweetest spot of the PC market is also the thinnest. The company, which remains the world’s top PC vendor, is announcing three new thin-client PCs Jan. 24, including a new laptop model and two other standard thin clients that support either Microsoft Windows or Debian Linux. The three new thin clients mark […]

VMware is looking to give IT administrators a new tool to help with the testing and deployment of new applications in the data center. On Jan. 21, the Palo Alto , Calif. , company announced the public beta of Stage Manager, a tool that looks to help streamline the process of bringing a new application […]

Dell’s new blade architecture is ready for prime time. The Round Rock, Texas, company is announcing Jan. 21 that after much rumor and speculation, its new blade architecture will now be available to customers starting this month. In addition to new blades, Dell will be offering a new 10U (17.5-inch) PowerEdge M1000e chassis that can […]