Scott Ferguson

It’s hard to keep a secret in the IT business. After an article appeared on the Engadget Web site Dec. 6, a Dell spokesperson confirmed that the PC vendor will unveil its new tablet offering—the Latitude XT—at a Dec. 11 event. In May, Dell first revealed through its Direct2Dell blog that it would offer a […]

IBM researchers are detailing a new microprocessor technology that will use light beams instead of wires to transmit data between processor cores, which could allow the company to place hundreds of cores on a single piece of silicon. In a paper published in Optics Express Dec. 6, IBM researchers are detailing the new method of […]

Hewlett-Packard is looking to bring its blade architecture to the telecommunications industry with a new platform that combines its c-Class server and chassis architecture along with the company’s Virtual Connect management tools. The HP BladeSystem Carrier-Grade Platform, which the Palo Alto, Calif., company announced Dec. 5, combines a standard HP blade and enclosure that have […]

Marathon Technology, which creates high-availability environments for Microsoft applications, is adding disaster recovery and data protection software to its EverRun product portfolio, the Littleton, Mass., company announced Dec. 3. EverRun CDP (continuous data protection) software will work with standard server, networking and storage environments, and Marathon will offer specific options for a range of Microsoft […]

If these are good times for the PC market, then Intel and Advanced Micro Devices might be among the biggest beneficiaries. A Dec. 3 report from market research company iSuppli that looked at microprocessor revenue for the third quarter found that Intel and AMD have each increased their market share at a time when the […]

The worldwide blade server market picked up steam in the third quarter of 2007, reaching more than $1 billion in revenue in a quarter for the first time, according to the latest survey from IDC. The biggest beneficiary of the blade market continues to be Hewlett-Packard. The Palo Alto, Calif., company now claims 42.1 percent […]

BALTIMORE—When facility and IT managers begin building a modern data center or expanding an existing one, there is more to consider than just the traditional issues of power and cooling to create the most efficient infrastructure for an enterprise. The issues surrounding the design and construction of this more flexible data center that adjusts as […]

BALTIMORE—When it comes to power and cooling, even the biggest IT companies in the world worry about the electricity bill. At the AdaptiveXchange conference Nov. 29, a panel of top data center administrators from Cisco Systems, Dell, Microsoft, VMware and Emerson Network Power—the host of the conference—discussed the types of power and cooling issues their […]

Hewlett-Packard is adding another virtualization option to its blade server line. The OEM signed a reseller agreement with Scalent Systems Nov. 26. Under the deal, HP will begin reselling Scalents Virtual Operating Environment, or V/OE, in December. The software allows users to increase hardware utilization and flexibility in the data center by decoupling the application […]

Dell is rolling out a pair of workstations that will incorporate Intels new line of 45-nanometer microprocessors. The Dell Precision T5400 and T7400 workstation are available immediately and both will use Intels new quad-core Xeon 5400 processors, which were part of the chip makers Penryn family of chips that launched earlier this month. In January, […]

While IBM still dominates the worldwide server market when its comes to revenue, Big Blues system shipments fell in the third quarter of 2007 as the company lost ground to Hewlett-Packard and Dell, according to a new Gartner report released Nov. 26. The report, which looked at third-quarter 2007 server shipments and revenue, found that […]

When trying to estimate whether or not notebook shipments will overtake desktops shipments, most IT analysts agree that its no longer a question of if, but when, it will happen. While analysts disagree on the exact quarter or year when this crossover will occur, they do agree that the result will mark a significant shift […]