Scott Ferguson

The health care industry can expect to get a big shot in the arm in the coming months from IT vendors as more and more top-tier OEMs look to invest considerable time and money in solutions for patients and doctors. In just the past several months, some of the biggest names in IT—IBM, Intel, Advanced […]

Hewlett-Packard has signed a new, seven-year deal with NASA worth $5.6 billion and will provide the federal agency with a wide range of hardware, the company announced May 23. Under the agreement, HP will provide NASA and other federal agencies with desktops, workstations and blade PCs with Linux and Unix capabilities. In addition, the Palo […]

The first quarter of 2007 proved another winner for both IBM and Hewlett-Packard as the two IT giants led the industry in both server shipments and revenue, according to separate reports by IDC and Gartner. IBM led Gartners survey with $3.8 billion in server revenue during the first quarter of 2007, an increase of 8.4 […]

IBM is looking to expand its reach into the consumer and embedded microprocessor market with a new series of cooperative agreements to co-develop new chip manufacturing technologies. The agreements, announced May 23, include partnerships with Samsung, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Infineon Technologies. IBM announced a similar partnership with Freescale Semiconductor on Jan. 23. Together, these […]

Hewlett-Packard announced May 23 that it has agreed to a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission concerning its handling of Tom Perkins resignation from its Board of Directors. Under the agreement, the Palo Alto, Calif., company agreed to a cease-and-desist order by the SEC in regards to the federal investigation of Perkins resignation from […]

Advanced Micro Devices is reassuring the IT industry that it can deliver both its 65-nanometer and 45-nanometer processors on time and that its manufacturing facilities can keep pace with larger rival Intel. In a meeting with analysts May 21, AMD announced that it is on schedule to fully ramp up two of its fabs for […]

XenSource is releasing an updated version of the open-source Xen hypervisor. Version 3.1 will be available as of May 22, and will include several enhancements such as support for both 32- and 64-bit virtual machines within the software. This hypervisor enhancement will allow users to virtualize 32-bit Microsoft Windows and Linux guests, while giving them […]

IBM finally took the wraps off its much anticipated Power6 microprocessor, which company executives said will double the clock speed of its current Power5 chip, without stretching the power envelope. The Power6 processor, unveiled at an event on May 21 in London, is a dual-core chip with a top clock speed of 4.7GHz, double the […]

Mellanox Technologies, best known as a provider of high-speed InfiniBand interconnect technology, is delving into Ethernet for the first time. At the Interop conference in Las Vegas, starting May 21, Mellanox executives will detail the companys first 10 Gigabit Ethernet adaptor chips and NICs (network interface cards). These adaptor products, said Dan Tuchler, senior director […]

Advanced Micro Devices is poised to unveil its next-generation microprocessor for notebooks along with a new laptop platform that looks to compete with Intels recently released Centrino offering. On May 18, AMD executives will detail its new mobile microprocessor, code-named Griffin, along with its “Puma” platform for laptops. Both the chip and the platform are […]

Hewlett-Packard reported gains in both laptops and desktops in the second quarter, and CEO Mark Hurd said the companys PCs have received some help from the release of Microsofts Vista. After releasing its second-quarter financial numbers this week, Hewlett-Packard showed why it remains the worlds PC market leader while delivering another blow to Dell as […]

With virtualization fairly well established in the data center as a way to squeeze more out of x86 servers, top vendors, industry watchers and customers have started to turn more attention to getting that same type of potential out of the desktop. A little more than a year ago, desktop virtualization seemed more of a […]