Scott Ferguson

Increased demand for high-end, quad-core processors for servers and desktops enabled Intel to post solid financial results for the third quarter. The numbers, released Oct. 16, show the Santa Clara, Calif., companys net income at about $1.9 billion for the quarter, an increase of 43 percent over the same period last year. Gross margins, a […]

Intel is preparing a new microprocessor code-named Diamondville, which the chip maker said is aimed at emerging markets and low-cost laptops, such as its own ClassMate PC and the One Laptop per Child project. At the Intel Developer Forum in Taiwan, which ran Oct. 15 and 16, Mooly Eden, the Santa Clara, Calif., companys vice […]

Worldwide PC shipments increased about 15 percent in the third quarter of 2007, with Hewlett-Packard remaining the leading vendor in terms of shipments, according to surveys released by IDC and Gartner Oct. 17. Dell, which had been lagging in shipments for a year, also gained back some market share overseas, but its U.S. sales of […]

Intel plans to cut an additional 2,000 jobs from its payroll to cut costs, executives announced Oct. 16 after an earnings report that showed both income and margins up in the third quarter of 2007. CEO Paul Otellini and executives told analysts and reporters during a conference call Oct. 16 that the Santa Clara, Calif., […]

Toshiba is rolling out new enterprise notebooks for the North American market. On Oct. 16, Toshiba America Information Systems, the North American subsidiary of Toshiba, will begin offering new models in its Satellite Pro series of notebooks for enterprises and midmarket business customers. These new laptops will ship to customers starting in November. Toshiba, which […]

Virtual Iron is looking to bundle up some new customers with help from two industry heavyweights. Starting Oct. 16, Virtual Iron will begin bundling the latest version of its virtualization software with rack-mount and blade servers from Hewlett-Packard and IBM. The bundles, which include services, are being sold through Tech Data and its network of […]

Dell is partnering with Microsoft and Nortel Networks to bring a unified communications platform to its line of hardware, while providing an additional layer of services for customers. The three companies are announcing the partnership Oct. 16, which is the same day that Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., plans to officially launch its line of unified […]

Verari Systems, which specializes in developing blade servers and storage products, is rolling outs its latest single-socket blade system, which will use Intels Xeon 3000 line of processors. The VB1160D blade server, which is immediately available to customers, supports all of the dual- and quad-core processors in Intels 3000 line, including the high-end Xeon X3230, […]

Sun Microsystems first steps toward incorporating energy efficiency into its products started in 2002, when engineers began discussing the next generation of SPARC processors. They saw the growth of highly parallel computing thanks to the rise of businesses needs for Web sites and e-commerce capabilities, according to Subodh Bapat, vice president and distinguished engineer for […]

IBM is looking to make it easier to monitor energy consumption within its mainframe computers. Starting Oct. 11, Big Blue is launching a new program—dubbed a “mainframe gauge”—for customers of its System z9 mainframes that will allow them to monitor and collect statistics on the amount of energy their mainframes systems use in a typical […]

On the same day that Dell detailed its new “streaming computing” solution for centralized desktop computing, the PC vendor also added to its workstation lineup. Starting Oct. 11, Dell began taking orders for the new Precision T3400 workstation, which can be configured as either a tower or desktop computer. Dell is offering the new workstation […]

Dell is offering a new way to deliver centralized desktop computing within an enterprise. During a conference call with reporters and analysts on Oct. 10, the Round Rock, Texas, company introduced a new set of software, hardware and services under the umbrella title of “On-Demand Desktop Streaming.” The computing solution, according to Dell executives, offers […]