Scott Ferguson

If it werent for a few Panasonic ToughBooks, Steve Davideks job as the operations and system administrator for the city of Sparks, Nev., would be a little bit easier. “One of the hardest things for the tech support guys is having to deal with something that is not covered under the same warranty as everything […]

Virtual Iron, which shuffled its top management in October, has inked a reseller agreement with Dell that looks to bring its virtualization technology to larger pool of customers. Virtual Iron, which has tried to position itself as the low-cost alternative to VMware, announced the agreement with Dell Nov. 20. The pact gives Virtual Iron access […]

Fujitsu Computer Systems is looking to trim a few pounds off its notebook portfolio with a new four-pound enterprise laptop that offers a 14.1-inch display and 4.5 hours of battery life. Fujitsu announced Nov. 20 that it would begin selling its LifeBook S6510 notebook later this month. This light-weight notebook looks to continue Fujitsus efforts […]

Hewlett-Packard and Dell are relentlessly wrestling to see if one of them can become king of both the enterprise and consumer hills. Dell is entrenched in the enterprise space while HP is firmly ensconced in the consumer sector. Analysts say that as hard as the two companies struggle, it will take a phenomenal effort for […]

In the companys ongoing effort to expand its blade business, IBM is introducing new management software that adds I/O virtualization to its BladeCenter portfolio. Open Fabric Manager, which IBM announced Nov. 19, will allow IT administrators to monitor and control I/O virtualization across 100 BladeCenter chassis, containing 1,400 individual blades, from a single console. The […]

Advanced Micro Devices is ready to launch its quad-core chips into the desktop market. On Nov. 19, the chip maker will launch its new “Spider” platform for gaming and high-end desktop PCs. The platform will include AMDs quad-core Phenom microprocessors, the new 790 chip set and the ATI Radeon HD 3800 graphics chips, which were […]

IBM plans to deliver on-demand computing capacity to customers from data center resources built up in the cloud. The Armonk, N.Y., company is announcing Nov. 15 a new initiative called “Blue Cloud,” which marks the first time IBM will deliver a commercial cloud computing offering. This first offering will use a combination of hardware and […]

Appro, which recently signed a contract to build three high-performance computer clusters for the U.S. Department of Energy, is eyeing a larger portion of the commercial supercomputer market for itself. While not as well known in high-performance and supercomputing circles as IBM, Cray or Hewlett-Packard, the Milpitas, Calif. company has been trying to expand its […]

If youre typing away in your cubicle, theres a good chance you are typing on a Dell. A new study from Forrester Research shows that Dell, despite losing overall market to share to Hewlett-Packard in the worldwide PC market, continues to be the preferred choice when it comes to enterprise desktops and laptops. The study, […]

Sun Microsystems is planning to update its line of telecommunications hardware by adding the companys recently released eight-core Niagara 2 processor, as well as chips from Advanced Micro Devices, to the portfolio. The updated ATCA (Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture) portfolio will include two new blades—the Netra CP3260, which will use the UltraSPARC T2 processors, and […]