Scott Ferguson

In a year of comebacks for once-struggling Sun Microsystems, the companys server revenue grew 15 percent in 2006, which jolted the company into a tie for third place among the top five vendors, according to the latest IDC study. The survey, which IDC released on Feb. 26, showed Sun increasing its server revenue 24.4 percent […]

The number of server shipments worldwide grew nearly 9 percent in 2006, with Hewlett-Packard leading with 27.5 percent of the market, according to the latest study by Gartner. IBM led the annual survey in terms of revenue, with $16.9 billion worth of server sales in 2006. That number represented a 1.7 percent increase from the […]

In a call with analysts this week, Intel officials said the company would deliver a 3.0GHz version of its quad-core “Clovertown” processor for servers, as well as deliver dual-core Xeon chips using the companys 45-nanometer manufacturing process. In the call with analysts on Feb. 21, executives with the Santa Clara, Calif., company added that the […]

Motion Computing and Intel are looking to carve out a spot in the health care market with a new tablet PC. The Austin, Texas, tablet PC maker announced Feb. 20 that it has teamed with Intel to produce a new mobile computer, dubbed the C5 MCA (mobile clinical assistant), that will be targeted strictly at […]

With little fanfare, Advanced Micro Devices released two, low-watt Athlon desktop processors on Feb. 20, along with a new dual-core chip model, the Athlon 64 X2 6000+, the company said in a statement. The single-core processors, the Athlon 64 3500+ and the 3800+, while not new models, will now be produced using the companys 65-nanometer […]

Hewlett-Packard, which has overtaken Dell as the worlds largest producer of PCs, soared to profitability on Feb. 20, with earnings of 55 cents a share and revenue of $25.1 billion. Excluding one-time items and other charges, the Palo Alto, Calif., IT giant posted first-quarter earnings of 65 cents a share or $1.8 billion, which beat […]

Users of SWsofts Virtuozzo virtualization software can have a single point of contact for support. On Feb. 20, the Herndon, Va., company is announcing that SWsoft will have access to 24-hour support from Microsoft for all its enterprise and hosting customers operating Windows-based applications within Virtuozzo environments. This three-year agreement, which starts immediately, is available […]

Sun Microsystems is preparing to offer new 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology across its hardware product line, including its processors, blades, motherboards and switches. The Santa Clara, Calif., IT company formally announced its 10G networking technology, previously dubbed “Neptune,” on Feb. 20. The first product to use this technology is a network adaptor card that uses […]

With an eye toward offering more storage and virtualization, Hewlett-Packard is gearing up to release the latest version of its HP-UX operating system. HP-UX 11iv3 starts shipping to HPs customers on Feb. 15. In addition, HP is scheduled to unveil two new servers, the Integrity BL860c blade system and the Integrity rx2660, a traditional rack-mounted […]

The amount of electricity used to power the worlds data center servers doubled in a five-year span due mainly to an increase in demand for Internet services, such as music and video downloads, and telephony, according to a new report. If current trends continue, the amount of power to run the worlds data center servers […]

While the launch of Microsofts Windows Vista operating system will drive consumer PC sales in the coming months, the operating systems impact on sales of Apples Macintosh are expected to be minimal, according to a recent report. In a Feb. 14 research report, Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, surveyed 50 Best Buy retail […]

When IBM rolls out its first 45-nanometer processors in 2008, the companys customers, in addition to getting a much smaller and more powerful chip, can now expect increased performance in memory as well. At the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco on Feb. 14, the companys engineers plan on introducing a paper that […]