Scott Ferguson

VMware wants users to try its virtualization software on the house. On Nov. 13, VMware will offer the beta version of its VMware Server 2, a free virtualization tool that allows users to partition a single physical server into multiple virtual machines. The software works both within Microsoft Windows and Linux environments. VMware released the […]

Now that Intels Penryn family has arrived, its time to ask: Whats next? With all the hype that Intel created around its Penryn line of processors and its switch to 45-nanometer chip manufacturing, the more compelling technology will come in 2008 with a new microarchitecture and an emphasis on mobility, according to several industry analysts. […]

IBM and the Department of Energys Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., took top supercomputer honors … again. The IBM Blue Gene/L system installed at the DOE research facility, runs at 478.2 teraflops or 478.2 trillion calculations per second, earning it the most powerful system on the Top 500 Super Computer list, which is […]

Hewlett-Packard wants to make it easier to manage a data center full of blades. At the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Nov. 12, HP executives will detail updates to its BladeSystem C-class infrastructure that include new ways to manage virtual environments across thousands of individual blades within a data center. HP, based in Palo […]

Dell now wants to simplify its PowerEdge server portfolio. At the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Nov. 12, Dell will show off several new PowerEdge servers, including new systems with new 45-nanometer processors from Intel, as well as updates to its OpenManage management software. As part of its “Simplify IT” initiative, which looks […]

In a move that will expand its services division, Hewlett-Packard will acquire EYP Mission Critical Facilities, a New York company that offers data center consulting services. Financial details of the acquisition, announced Nov. 12, were not disclosed. HP announced that the deal would close during its first financial quarter. EYP Mission, which has 350 employees […]

Intel is ready to enter the 45-nanometer era. As Intel CEO Paul Otellini detailed in his opening remarks at the 2007 Developer Forum, the company will bring its Penryn family of 45-nanometer processors to market Nov. 12. The official release will bring 16 new microprocessors to the companys portfolio, including 12 quad-core models, three dual-core […]

Intel will continue plans to build WiMax technology into its silicon despite news of Sprint Nextel and Clearwire ending plans for a nationwide WiMax network. Sprint Nextel and Clearwire in July said they planned to connect their WiMax networks and offer services to as many as 100 million people by the end of next year. […]

Advanced Micro Devices is looking to further its reputation within the high-performance computing field with a new graphics chip that looks to take better advantage of parallel computing. The chip maker Nov. 8 announced the FireStream 9170 GPU (graphics processing unit), along with a software development kit, which AMD plans to bring to the HPC […]

Hewlett-Packard, which has been the main backer of Intel’s Itanium processors, is planning to refresh its entire line of Integrity servers with the new Itanium 9100 series processors, the Palo Alto, Calif., company announced Nov. 8. Since it first began co-developing Itanium with Intel in the 1990s, HP has stuck by the processors as the […]