Scott Ferguson

SAN FRANCISCO—Stratus Technologies and NEC of America are about to bring virtualization to fault-tolerant systems. At the 2007 VMworld Conference here, the two companies each are demonstrating fault-tolerant systems that use VMwares ESX Server as part of the platform. The new systems will allow all the virtual environments to continue to function in the same […]

SAN FRANCISCO – VMware is looking to grow and the virtualization giant is prepared to acquire other companies to help it increase its presence and its product line. At a question and answer session with reporters at the 2007 VMware Conference Sept. 11, Diane Greene, VMwares president and CEO, said that while her company is […]

SAN FRANCISCO—As virtualization continues to grow, the role of the microprocessor, especially the potential found in new multicore technology, will help bring virtualization into new fields, including high availability, disaster recovery and energy-efficient computing. On Sept. 11 here at the 2007 VMworld Conference, the two leading producers of chips, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, offered […]

After much hype and anticipation, Advanced Micro Devices will officially unveil its quad-core Opteron processor during seven different worldwide events on Sept. 10. The quad-core Opteron, better known by its “Barcelona” code name, has been shipping to AMDs software and hardware partners for more than a month, although the company waited until Sept. 10 to […]

Rackable Systems, which makes a number of high-density storage servers and other products for large data centers, announced it will run VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 software suite to further its mission to consolidate and cluster the data center. The Fremont, Calif., company announced that it would begin shipping its rack-mount x86 servers with VMwares VI3 […]

Intel formally unveiled its much anticipated “Caneland” platform for multiprocessor systems Sept. 5, in a move that seems to be aimed at taking away some of the thunder from Advanced Micro Devices soon-to-be-released quad-core Opteron processor. The new Intel platform will include several new processors, formerly code-named Tigerton, which will now be known as Intels […]

Henri Richard, the former chief marketing and sales officer with Advanced Micro Devices, is joining Freescale Semiconductor to lead the chip makers sales and marketing divisions. Richard, who will hold the title of senior vice president, will join the Austin, Texas, company later in September, according to a statement released Sept. 5. On Aug. 22, […]

Hewlett-Packard is preparing to refresh several of its enterprise PC offerings with an emphasis on power efficiency and the latest processor technology from both Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. At a show in New York City on Sept. 5, where the IT giant, of Palo Alto, Calif., plans to unveil a number of consumer and […]

IBM is showing off its new chip set architecture for its own line of high-end x86 servers just in time for the launch of Intels new platform for multiprocessor systems. On Sept. 5, IBM will begin offering details of its X4 Architecture, which it plans to build into systems that use Intels quad-core “Tigerton” processors, […]

Dell is looking to upgrade its mobile workstation lineup with a new new model that offers the latest Intel Centrino mobile platform, a 17-inch display and an optional solid state drive. The Round Rock, Texas, PC vendor is rolling out the Precision M6300 mobile workstation Sept. 4, which will eventually replace the older M90 model. […]