Scott Ferguson

SWsoft, a virtualization company that has labored in the shadow of VMware and other vendors for years, is changing its corporate name and plans to make a bigger push into this fast-growing market in 2008. In January, SWsoft will officially rechristen itself as Parallels—the original name of the virtualization company that SWsoft acquired several years […]

Dell and Toshiba are each bringing tablet PCs into the enterprise market this week, with both vendors offering their users touch-screen capabilities with the new models. The Dell Latitude XT tablet PC marks the first time the OEM has offered its own tablet PC for customers. Before this model rolled out Dec. 11, Dell had […]

Sun Microsystems is releasing the specifications of its new UltraSPARC T2 processor, formally code named Niagara 2, to the open-source community Dec. 12, as part of the company’s ongoing effort to build more of a community around its signature chip. When Sun announced the release of the eight-core UltraSPARC T2 chip in August 2007, company […]

SAP applications are now officially certified to run on VMware’s ESX Server. The two industry giants were expected to announce the new certification Dec. 12. This pact allows SAP applications to run on the ESX Server hypervisor in both 64-bit Microsoft Windows and Linux production environments. The two companies also announced that several server vendors—Dell, […]

IBM is moving a step closer delivering the first of its first 32-nanometer microprocessors with an announcement that it has developed a high-k metal gate manufacturing technology, which promises to reduce the power that leaks from a chip’s transistors while reducing the overall size of its chips. The first of the 32-nanometer chips—a nanometer is […]

Virtual Iron, which has been trying carve out a place for itself in a virtualization market that continues to grow in scope and importance, is updating its namesake software suite to better address disaster recovery and high availability concerns. Virtual Iron 4.2, which becomes available Dec. 10, adds several new features to the company’s virtualization […]

Dell is being sued by a couple of smaller companies that claim the PC vendor violated several patents regarding technology related to tablet PCs. The lawsuit, which was filed with the U.S. District Court of Eastern District of Texas Dec. 6, also names Motion Computing, an Austin, Texas, company that makes tablet PCs for a […]

These are tough times for Advanced Micro Devices. A year ago, AMD executives spoke confidently about the company’s future with the anticipation it had created around the release of its new Opteron processor—”Barcelona”—and the company’s approach to quad-core design. Now, as 2007 comes to a close, the company finds itself struggling financially, partly due to […]

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 […]