Scott Ferguson

IBM wants small and midsized businesses to know that blade servers are an option for their IT infrastructure, too. In a field that has grown more important to Big Blue and its main OEM rivals in the past five years, IBM announced June 13 that it will offer a new BladeCenter system specifically designed for […]

When Hewlett-Packard kicks off its Technology Forum in Las Vegas on June 18, those in attendance can expect a healthy dose of talk about the companys c-Class blade architecture. BladeSystem c-Class blade servers, which HP first debuted a year ago this month, will not be the only company highlight at the show, but the architecture […]

VMware is looking to put its own stamp on one of the hottest properties in the computer market—the Apple Macintosh. In an announcement that will coincide with the Apples Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, VMware will announce June 12 that its Fusion virtualization software is set for a full release in August. VMware Fusion, […]

Worldwide PC shipments are expected to increase more than 12 percent this year, with shipments of notebooks and ultraportable PCs being the main drivers of this growth, according to a report by research firm IDC. For 2007, worldwide PC shipments—which include x86 servers, desktops, notebooks and ultraportable PCs—are expected to hit 256.7 million, according to […]

The 1 billionth PC is expected to roll off the assembly line and into use by the end of 2008, some 31 years after its introduction to the market, and that number will reach 2 billion just seven years later, according to new projections. Much of the growth during the PCs first three decades has […]

In the increasingly competitive field of PC blades, Hewlett-Packard is jumping back into the mix June 11 with a major update of its Consolidated Client Infrastructure software and hardware. HP, which also rolled out updates to its thin-client PCs in January, is looking to offer a better desktop experience for workers with the revamped CCI […]

Sun Microsystems expects its latest service feature to be the answer for IT managers lost in their own data center. Dubbed Inventory Channel, the latest offering of Sun Connection Services, the Santa Clara, Calif., companys line of networked service offerings, is designed to inventory a data centers assets—physical and virtual—from a single console. The inventory […]

NASA is preparing to take off with a new IBM supercomputer. IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., has entered into a four-year contract with National Aeronautics and Space Administration to build a supercomputer at NASAs Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. This supercomputer, which will augment the “Columbia” systems already installed at the NASA facility, will […]

Hewlett-Packard is preparing to offer a new set of management software tools that will streamline the virtualization capabilities built into its Unix operating system and its Integrity line of servers. These new management features for HPs VSE (Virtual Server Environment), which the company is slated to announce June 6, are designed to give IT administrators […]

VMware is looking to bring its virtualization capabilities to a much larger audience by partnering with hosting providers. On June 6, the Palo Alto, Calif., company will detail its Service Provider Program, or SPP, which started a number of months ago with a handful of hosting providers that included a variety of Web hosting companies, […]

A group of University of Utah physicists are working on a way to convert heat into sound and then into electricity, which could open the door for better ways to cool laptops and other electronic devices and could potentially ease the power crunch in data centers. The team of researchers, led by Orest Symko, a […]

A trio of IT vendors are preparing server platforms that will support Advanced Micro Devices soon-to-be-released quad-core Opteron processors, dubbed “Barcelona.” At the Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan, June 5, AMD announced that Supermicro, Tyan Computer and Uniwide Computer will be among the first vendors to offer server platforms based on the chip makers […]