Scott Ferguson

Former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins, who left the company earlier this year as Michael Dell returned to the helm of his namesake company, has signed on as a senior advisor to a private investment firm. TPG Capital, which is based in Fort Worth, Texas, announced Aug. 1 that Rollins, 54, would join the firm as […]

In what it touts as “the most significant transformation” of its worldwide data centers in a generation, IBM announced Aug. 1 that it will consolidate about 3,900 of its own servers onto 33 virtualized System z mainframes running Linux to save electrical energy and cut back on its carbon footprint. A carbon footprint is a […]

Intel has set its sights on 2008 as the year its WiMax investment becomes a reality. Along with its two carrier partners, SprintNextel and Clearwire, the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker will begin controlled tests of the WiMax networks and technology later in the third quarter, with field tests to follow late this year and […]

3M has settled a lawsuit that it brought against several IT vendors, including Sony, Lenovo Group, Hitachi and others for infringing on patent designs for lithium-ion batteries, the company announced in a statement. In a statement posted on its Web site July 30, 3M, which is based in Maplewood, Minn., announced that it has reached […]

After a rocky start, Advanced Micro Devices rebounded in the second quarter to gain back 4 percent of the market share that it lost earlier this year, according to the latest report from Mercury Research. The report, which measures the number of x86 processors shipped during the quarter, found AMDs market share stood at 22.9 […]

The desktop virtualization space is getting a little more crowded. On July 30, RingCube Technologies, a startup better known for its consumer software, launched its first suite of desktop virtualization products specifically designed for the enterprise. With its MojoPac Enterprise Suite, RingCube, of Santa Clara, Calif., is looking to enter a potentially lucrative market—desktop virtualization—that […]

VMware, on the eve of its highly anticipated initial public offering, finds itself with a new partner and investor—Cisco Systems. On July 27, the two companies announced that Cisco will invest $150 million in VMware and receive about 1.6 percent of the virtualization vendors common stock. The investment also means that VMware will appoint a […]

Looking beyond the launch of its quad-core Opteron microprocessor in a few weeks, Advanced Micro Devices is beginning to lay the groundwork for new server and PC processor innovations that will begin appearing in the next two years. At a meeting with industry analysts July 26, AMD executives delved into some of the details behind […]

Lenovo Group is looking to invest about $30 million during the next year to build two manufacturing facilities in Mexico and India. The Raleigh, N.C.-based PC vendor, best known for its enterprise line of ThinkPad laptops, tablets and desktops, announced July 25 that it will build the new facilities in Monterrey, Mexico, and Baddi, India. […]

A continued rise in the value of the Chinese Yuan would drive up the component costs of computers, but consumers and businesses shouldnt expect to see much change in the prices of their hardware. Instead, those costs would be eaten by the computer makers, who would fear driving away customers by hiking prices in a […]

In two years, Advanced Micro Devices is planning to increase the memory on its Opteron microprocessor platform with a new memory extender that will increase the number of dual in-line memory modules that each CPU uses, the company announced July 25. When the Sunnyvale, Calif., companys Socket G3 Memory Extender, or G3MX, technology hits the […]

Intel is ramping up its new “Caneland” platform for a third-quarter launch and has already begun releasing the microprocessor and chip set to its OEM partners. In addition, the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker has revealed the official product name for the new platform. The processors, which had gone by the code name Tigerton, will […]