Scott Ferguson

Hewlett-Packard is looking to expand its small and midsize business portfolio with a low-cost server powered by Advanced Micro Devices processors. At the IT vendors Art of Small Business conference in San Francisco on March 28, company officials will take the wraps off of 12 new products specifically geared toward SMBs and emerging-market customers. Among […]

Dell is readying a new generation of its OptiPlex commercial desktops to meet new industry management standards. The Round Rock, Texas, PC maker is scheduled to announce on March 27 that the next generation of its OptiPlex desktops will incorporate the new DASH (desktop and mobile architecture for systems management hardware) management and security standards. […]

Sun Microsystems, which has found itself on an upswing within the server market, is looking to expand its telecommunication offerings. On March 27, Sun plans to roll out a new telecom server, the Netra x4200 M2. This new server will include Advanced Micro Devices dual-core Opteron processors. Specifically, Sun will use a high-end embedded Opteron […]

In its ongoing effort to expand beyond PCs and servers, Dell is planning to sell itself as an all-in-one provider of data center services and support. On March 27, Dell unveiled a new business unit, Dell Data Center Solutions Division, which will focus on designing and customizing data centers. The unit will also help manage […]

Rackable Systems is joining the mobile data center parade. The Milpitas, Calif., company that is best known for its high-density x86 servers and storage products is rolling out its first mobile data center on March 26, which will compete with Sun Microsystems Project Blackbox, which Sun unveiled in October. Rackables mobile shipping container, which the […]

Compellent Technologies wants to make booting a companys servers from the SAN easier. The network storage vendor on March 26 is announcing a new addition to its Storage Center 3.5 suite that will give users a simplified away of booting servers from a SAN (storage area network). The software, called Server Instant Replay, works by […]

Fault-tolerant servers are ready for the quad-core era. On March 26, both Stratus Technologies and NEC are announcing that they each will start shipping new versions of their fault-tolerant servers that will be based on Intels quad-core processors. Stratus and NEC will each start using Intels Xeon X5355 quad-core processor, which offers a clock speed […]

After two quarters of solid growth for Apples Mac line, this quarter could see a “slight” downturn in Mac sales, although resellers of the companys products remain more optimistic than current Wall Street estimates, according to a March 20 report. In the last half of 2006, Apple managed to ship about 1.6 million Macs during […]

The release of Microsofts Windows Vista operating system will have a limited impact on the number PCs shipped worldwide in 2007, according to a Gartner report released March 20. The Gartner report is calling for worldwide PC shipments to grow 10.5 percent this year to a total of 255.7 million units. Meanwhile, revenue is slated […]

Fujitsu is betting that there is a growing market for laptops with solid state disks. Starting on March 19, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company will begin offering SSD options on two of its ultra-portable notebooks: The LifeBook P1610 and the LifeBook B6210. Fujitsu is gambling that the SSD options on these two notebooks will find a […]

Intel is gearing up to launch the newest platform for its vPro technology. The worlds largest maker of processors is preparing to launch its new vPro platform, which the company has dubbed “Weybridge,” by the second half of this year. This updated platform will still be based on Intels Core 2 Duo processor but it […]

Advanced Micro Devices is working to shrink the size of the average desktop. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker will be talking up its DTX standard, an open set of specifications for small-form-factor desktops, at the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany. On March 15, AMD plans to offer a briefing for its partners involved in developing […]