Scott Ferguson

NEC Corp. of America, best known in the enterprise for its line of fault-tolerant servers, is now looking to offer IT managers a way to control an enterprises fleet of PCs from the data center to the front office. At the Gartner IT Expo in San Francisco, NEC will detail an offering called Virtual PC […]

If virtualization is one of the hot technologies to watch for in 2007, then VMware President Diane Greene may have the best seat in the house. Greene, along with her husband and three other engineers, founded VMware in 1998 as a company that could take the concept of virtualization—the ability to run multiple applications and […]

Intel is preparing to take the next big leap with its microarchitecture. At the Intel Developer Forum, which kicked off in Beijing April 17, the worlds largest chip maker used the conference for more than reminding customers that its 45-nanometer processor family—”Penryn”—will launch later this year and that its new mobile platform—”Santa Rosa”—is due in […]

Less that a week after its disappointing first-quarter financial results, Advanced Micro Devices announced April 23 that its latest Opteron models are available. The dual-core Opteron 2222 and 8222 SE models, which the Sunnyvale, Calif., company announced April 4, will run at 3.0GHz. The two processors also will offer 120-watt thermal envelopes. On April 23, […]

BladeLogic and SWsoft are preparing to offer more virtualization tools to their customers. Virtualization – the ability to run multiple applications and operating systems on a single server — has become a popular way of cutting cooling, power, space and other costs associated with large data centers. Starting April 23, BladeLogic will add a new […]

Intel gained back market share in the first quarter of 2007 as its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices, sputtered in the face of sluggish sales and lower prices for its microprocessors, according to a new report. iSuppli, a market research firm in El Segundo, Calif., found that in the first three months of this year, […]

Lenovo Group, the worlds third largest PC vendor, is eliminating 1,400 jobs worldwide, a move executives said will help save the company $100 million during this fiscal year. In a statement released April 19, Lenovo CEO William J. Amelio said that the cuts were necessary in order to grow the company, reduce expenses and keep […]

Hewlett-Packard is continuing to dominate the worldwide PC marketplace at the expense of its main rival, Dell, according to an April 18 report by Gartner. The report, similar to one released by IDC on April 18, showed that HP held its top spot in the worldwide PC market with 17.6 percent market share. In the […]

Once again, Hewlett-Packard is on top of the PC hill. HP accounted for 19.1 percent of the worldwide PC market in the first quarter of 2007, and the number of computers it shipped in the quarter increased 28.2 percent compared with the first quarter of 2006, according to a report released by IDC on April […]

Its been nearly three years since Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu announced that they would co-develop servers based on the SPARC processor and the Solaris operating system. Now, the two IT icons will see if the unique partnership can pay off. Sun and Fujitsu will unveil several new systems April 17, including low-end servers that use […]

Marathon Technologies, best known for creating high-availability environments for Microsoft applications, is turning its attention to open-source virtualization provider XenSource. The two companies are making a joint announcement April 17 to integrate Marathons technology with XenSources virtualization platform, although the first products of this venture will not hit the marketplace until the third quarter of […]

Hitachi wants a piece of the North American blade market for itself. After introducing its first blade server for the North American market in November, Hitachi is ready to introduce a second system — the BladeSymphony 320 — on April 17. Hitachis first blade, the BladeSymphony 1000, is geared at enterprises that need support for […]