Scott Ferguson

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 […]

Three months after announcing that it would form a new partnership with Intel, Sun Microsystems will offer a window into what the collaboration could hold for the future. At Intels Developer Forum in Beijing, China on April 17, Sun executives will be on hand to demonstrate its Solaris operating system working a system powered by […]

Intel is working to show that there is more to chip design than clock speed. At its spring Developer Forum, which kicked off on April 17 in Beijing, Intel executives detailed several new developments on the companys road map, including new performance numbers for its line of “Penryn” 45-nanometer processors and details about its SOC […]

Virtual Iron, which has long billed itself as a cost-effective producer of virtualization software, is looking to delve into desktop virtualization for the first time. Starting April 16, Virtual Iron will partner with Provision Networks, which uses VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) technology to transform physical PCs and applications into a virtual service, to provide a […]

Apple acknowledge April 12 that its highly anticipated new Mac OS X 10.5, which the company is calling Leopard, will be delayed until at least October, although developers could have a beta version by June. The Cupertino, Calif., company announced the delay in a statement released April 12. The reason, according to Apple, is that […]

IBM is looking to offer customers a way of reducing power consumption in the data center by offering System x and BladeCenter systems with low-watt Intel and Advanced Micro Devices processors. At the BladeSystems Insight conference April 12 in Savannah, Ga., IBM is scheduled to introduce plans to offer these low-watt processors in its BladeCenter […]

Dell is about to make an even bigger bet on Advanced Micro Devices Opteron processors. Staring April 10, the Round Rock, Texas, PC maker will add several additional Opteron models to a new server offering called the PowerEdge 2970. In addition, Dell plans to add Opteron processors to a second new system, called the “Energy […]

Intel is targeting high-end PC users and gamers with a new quad-core processor. The Santa Clara, Calif., company is launching its Core 2 Extreme QX6800 processor April 9, and Intel is promising that its latest quad-core offering is 65 percent faster than the older-generation dual-core X6800 processor. With the release of the QX6800 processor, Intel […]

ClearCube, known for technology that allows businesses to manage their server-based computing environments, is about to release an updated version of its Sentral software. The 5.5 version of Sentral, available April 9 in a beta version, will add support for VMwares ESX Server 3 and VMware Server virtualization software, giving customers additional scalability when configuring […]