Scott Ferguson

Sun Microsystems is rolling out its latest hardware based on its UltraSPARC T2 chip. On April 9, Sun will officially begin selling two new servers, the SPARC Enterprise T5140 and the T5240, which use the latest UltraSPARC processor, formerly called Niagara 2. The difference between these servers and the systems Sun introduced in October 2007 […]

IBM is hoping a little water offers big improvements in cooling. At an event in San Francisco April 8, IBM unveiled its latest Power 575 supercomputer that uses water instead of air to cool the system. The Power 575 is located on the company’s Power6 processor with a clock speed of 4.7GHz. This meant the […]

5 Things That Will/Wont Work for Dell By Scott Ferguson 5 Things That Will/Wont Work for Dell – 5 Things That Will Work for Dell: #1. A Smaller Dell Is More Nimble 5 Things That Will Work for Dell 1. A Smaller Dell Is More NimbleNo one wants to see employees laid off, but the […]

After denying earlier reports of layoffs, Advanced Micro Devices announced April 7 that it would eliminate 10 percent of its work force by the third quarter of 2008 in order to cut costs after disappointing sales in the first quarter. The cuts were deeper than the original 5 percent reduction that had been reported in […]

Intel, which is looking to add an additional layer of security for laptops, will introduce what company executives are calling anti-theft technology later in 2008. Although Intel is not revealing many of the details behind its new anti-theft product, the technology will work with the company’s chip sets and firmware to help protect the notebook […]

Michael Dell is shedding the cloak of a low-cost box maker. At a meeting April 3 with Wall Street analysts at Dell’s Round Rock, Texas, headquarters, CEO Michael Dell said that the company will grow its enterprise services business while focusing more on SMBs (small and midsized businesses) and the consumer market. In three years, […]

Intel is delving deeper into notebooks this week at the 2008 Developer Forum in Shanghai, China, and company executives are talking about several new developments for both its consumer and business product lines. One of the more significant updates coming out if this week’s show is Intel’s second-generation Classmate PC, which the company plans to […]

Intel is thinking small at its 2008 Intel Developer Forum in China. The spring IDF, which kicks off April 2 in Shanghai, will mark the debut of the chip maker’s much talked about Atom processor-formerly called Silverthorne-for a new category of MIDs (mobile Internet devices) that Intel and its OEM partners have been developing for […]

In a move that has been long anticipated, IBM will combine its System p and System i server portfolios into one product offering that the company will unite through a common hardware and microprocessor architecture. IBM is detailing its new portfolio of Power System servers, operating systems and applications at the Common User Group Conference […]

These are tough times for desktops and Dell seems to know it. When Dell announced earlier this week that it would close its Austin, Texas, desktop manufacturing facility as part of a sweeping, corporate-wide cost saving venture-the closing will affect about 900 jobs at the plant-it also signaled that the company knows its once profitable […]