Scott Ferguson

SGI is looking to boost its supercomputer profile. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company, which continues to rank as one of the leading builders of supercomputers, announced Feb. 14 that it has acquired Linux Networx, a company best known for developing Linux clusters for HPC (high-performance computing). In the world of supercomputing, clusters remain the dominant architecture […]

There’s a lot riding on Advanced Micro Device’s new mobile platform. In a Feb. 13 research note, Doug Freedman, an analyst with American Technology Research, wrote that OEMs have reservations about AMD’s new “Puma” platform for laptops, which is scheduled for release in the second quarter of this year. Freedman wrote that any delay with […]

Intel’s legal troubles continue to multiply. While the company’s product roadmap appears stable and robust these days, the issues of whether Intel is abusing its market position and its status as the world’s top microprocessor producer seem to be drawing an equal number of headlines. On Feb. 12, the European Commission raided Intel’s offices in […]

Hewlett-Packard, which currently leads the blade market in unit shipments, is offering a new, four socket blade system based on the latest Itanium chips from Intel. The BL870c blade adds to HP’s Integrity line, which uses the Itanium processor that the company began developing with Intel in the 1990s. The new system, announced Feb. 12, […]

Dell is adding to its growing enterprise services portfolio and announced Feb. 12 that the company is acquiring MessageOne, which provides managed services for e-mail management, archiving and business continuity. Dell announced that it would acquire MessageOne, which is based in Austin, Texas, for $155 million in cash. The company is owned by Adam Dell, […]

Sun Microsystems is delving into desktop virtualization by buying a German company that specializes in open-source software that allows PCs to run applications with a range of operating systems. On Feb. 12, Sun announced that it plans to acquire Innotek for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is expected to close in Sun’s fiscal third quarter. […]

Global IT spending will decrease in the next 12 months as companies begin to feel the pinch of a slowing U.S. economy, according to new research from IDC. In a Feb. 11 report, the research firm found global IT spending will increase about 5 percent in 2008 and total about $1.38 trillion for the year. […]

Hewlett-Packard is tapping Qualcomm to provide next-generation wireless technology for its new line of enterprise-class notebooks that will be available later this year. At the start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Feb. 11, HP announced that it would begin adding Qualcomm’s “Gobi” wireless technology into the new business notebooks that it plans to […]

When it comes to the future of computing, Intel isn’t placing any bets on a specific model. In an internal research paper and online survey of more than 700 IT managers that is now beginning to circulate, Intel found that none of the various alternative computer models that have emerged in the past few years […]

A trio of Hewlett-Packard user groups are looking to consolidate into one organization. In April, the membership of Encompass, the largest of the three, HP Interex EMEA and ITUG will vote on a plan that will combine the three user groups into a single, 50,000-member organization. The leadership of all three groups has already voted […]