Scott Ferguson

Lenovo is revamping its ThinkPad T61p workstation notebook with a new widescreen display, enhanced graphics from Nvidia and better wireless support. The PC vendor is looking to complete the refresh of its enterprise lineup since Intel released its Centrino Pro mobile platform earlier this year. The ThinkPad T61p, as well as the display and graphics […]

In the coming years, VMware will continue to dominate the market for x86 server virtualization, but it face new challenges from Microsofts Windows Server 2008 and XenSource, according to a new report from Forrester Research. The July 9 report finds that while Microsofts soon-to-be-released server product and XenSources XenEnterprise suite match some of the features […]

VMware is adding support for 64-bit operating systems, such as Sun Microsystems Solaris 10 and Microsofts Windows Vista, to its Lab Manager virtualization testing software. Version 2.5 of the Palo Alto, Calif., companys software, released July 9, also includes support for iSCSI and NFS (Network File System) storage for keeping virtual machine libraries. Previous versions […]

Intel is investing more than $200 million in virtualization leader VMware, it announced July 9, giving the chipmaker a 2.5 percent stake in the company. Both companies said in a joint statement they expect the partnership to help accelerate the adoption of VMwares virtualization technology, but declined to elaborate. VMware is the market leader in […]

Advanced Micro Devices is placing a $7.5 million bet on Transmeta. On July 6, AMD, in Sunnyvale, Calif., announced that it is investing $7.5 million in Transmeta in exchange for preferred stock from the Santa Clara, Calif., company. In a statement, the two companies said the multimillion dollar investment would go toward developing new energy-efficient […]

Dell is holding back filing another financial document with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Dell filed paperwork with the SEC earlier this week, claiming that it could not file its 11-K report, which concerns the companys 401(k) plan for employees, because of an ongoing internal audit. This latest delay comes after company executives wrote […]

Fiorano Software is teaming up with GT Software to help allow easier integration of SOA products with mainframe systems. The July 3 agreement means that GT Software engineers will now begin working to help integrate mainframe assets for users of Fioranos SOA 2007, a platform that offers technology for rapid deployment of SOA (service-oriented architecture) […]

With virtualization pushing beyond data center consolidation and moving into other areas such as high availability and disaster recovery, IT managers have to consider a new set of issues: how to manage all those virtual machines. Its a question that will grow in importance in the coming years as the technology continues to go mainstream, […]

It started with a 5-minute presentation at a long-forgotten conference in 2004. While attending the conference, Lance Shinabarger, who was then working as a network engineer in the corporate IT department of Dominos Pizza, decided he would take a risk on what just a few years ago was still considered a somewhat-exotic form of cutting-edge […]

Advanced Micro Devices will launch its highly anticipated quad-core Opteron microprocessor in August and the first of these “Barcelona” processors will run at 2.0GHz, company executives said June 29. This development, AMD executives said, should end rumors that the companys first quad-core processor had been delayed. While AMD did not offer a specific date for […]