Scott Ferguson

With a new enterprise strategy in place, Dells line of server products had a rebound in the second quarter of 2007, with the companys revenues climbing 20 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the latest survey by IDC. In its report on the worldwide server market, which was released Aug. 23, […]

Once again, IBM and Hewlett-Packard are fighting for server supremacy. In its latest survey of the server market, Gartner found that IBM led all other vendors in terms of revenue in the second quarter of 2007, while HP shipped more servers than any other OEM. Gartner, which is based in Stamford, Conn., released its latest […]

Dell first announced that it would preinstall Ubuntu Linux on some of its consumer desktops and notebooks just three months ago, but the results have shown the vendor that there is no reason to stop there. At this years LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, the Round Rock, Texas, company announced that it would expand its […]

Sun Microsystems vision of the data center is a green oasis. After 12 months of design and construction, Sun will open the doors Aug. 21 to a new, 76,000-square-foot data center. Company executives believe the new data center will demonstrate its ability to deliver eco-friendly technology to its customers and demonstrate Suns commitment to green […]

Citrix Systems is acquiring XenSource, whose founders helped develop the open-source Xen hypervsior, for $500 million in a move that caps a significant week in the development of virtualization technology. The XenSource acquisition, which both companies announced Aug. 15, comes just a day after VMware, which has long been the dominant player in the x86 […]

Fujitsu is looking to offer users an even smaller and lighter ultramobile PC. On Aug. 14, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company plans to unveil the Lifebook U810, an ultramobile PC that had previously only been available in Japan. Now, Fujitsu will begin selling the PC in the North American market for the first time in September. […]

Advanced Micro Devices is looking to make it easier for developers to take advantage of multicore processing when designing applications. The chip maker announced on Aug. 14 a new program entitled “Hardware Extensions for Software Parallelism,” aimed at better integrating software and hardware to take advantage of software parallelism and improve application performance. The goal […]

Its the dawn of a new day for VMware and the companys co-founder and president, Diane Greene. At the clang of the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange Aug. 14, some 33 million shares of the virtualization giants stock began getting traded on Wall Street. In the weeks leading up to the IPO […]

XenSource is preparing to take the next big step in its virtualization evolution with the latest version of its XenEnterprise suite, which is ready to roll out Aug. 20. XenSource is looking to offer an improved product for a growing list of enterprise customers, while providing a low-cost alternative to industry heavyweight VMware and its […]

Intel is ramping up its latest quad-core processor to 3.0GHz. Starting Aug. 13, the chip giant will begin offering a new quad-core Xeon processor, the X5365, which will have a top clock speed of 3.0GHz, a total of 8MB of Level 2 cache and 1333MHz FSB (front side bus). In addition, the new processor fits […]