Scott Ferguson

VMware is looking to give IT administrators cradle-to-grave control of their virtual machines. At the company’s European showcase that kicks off Feb. 25 in Cannes, France, VMware will detail its new Lifecycle Manager as well as offer demonstrations of its various production tools and its business continuity application. Since the start of the year, VMware […]

A new startup is looking to take the bite out of the current memory crunch. MetaRAM, which started up about two years ago and officially announced itself to the world Feb. 25, is releasing a new product, MetaSDRAM, which looks to add memory capacity to workstations and servers without significantly adding to the overall cost […]

Appro is rolling out a new system that uses the latest quad-core Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices, part of an effort to expand its line of supercomputers and high-performance computer clusters. The Xtreme-X2, which the Milpitas, Calif., company will officially announced Feb. 26, is a two-socket HPC (high-performance computer) blade system that uses AMD’s […]

Despite concerns about the health of the U.S. economy, worldwide server shipments and revenue increased in 2007, with Hewlett-Packard and IBM continuing to dominate all other vendors, according a new Gartner report. In 2007, worldwide server revenue grew 3.8 percent for a total of more than $54.8 billion. Overall, vendors shipped more than 8.8 million […]

If everything is bigger in Texas, then the new Sun supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center should fit right in. Sun Microsystems and the University of Texas, where the TACC facility is located, will unveil the new Constellation system at a Feb. 22 ceremony in Austin. The new system, dubbed “Ranger,” was made possible […]

Hewlett-Packard’s internal data center consolidation initiative is coming together. In a Feb. 19 call with analysts following HP’s first-quarter financial results, President and CEO Mark Hurd said the company is making progress in its push to reduce the number of its data centers from 85 worldwide to six centers in the United States, a move […]

Sun Microsystems and Verari Systems are each preparing to expand their blade portfolios as the market for these high-density systems continues to build. On Feb. 20, Sun announced its latest blade to use Intel’s quad-core Xeon processor-the Sun Blade X8450. The four-socket system is the most recent offering that uses Intel processors after both companies […]

Intel is gearing up to deliver its latest platform for gaming and other high-end PCs. At the 2008 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco Feb. 19, Intel will officially unveil its long-talked-about “Skulltrail” platform for gamers and PC enthusiasts. Now officially named the Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform, the board will support two, quad-core processors […]

Unisys, which has been mainly regarded as a hardware company that produces its own line of x86 servers and mainframes, is moving away from boxes and into software and services for its customers. As part of its new business model, the Blue Bell, Pa., company is rolling out a new management software suite – Unisys […]

Sun Microsystems is turning to a new partner to help build its next generation of UltraSPARC microprocessors. The Santa Clara, Calif., company announced Feb. 19 that it has inked an agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing and will use its foundry to manufacture Sun’s next-generation, 45-nanometer UltraSPARC processors. “One of the reasons why we chose TSMC […]