Scott Ferguson

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

If virtualization is the one of the hot technologies to watch for in 2007, then VMware President Diane Greene may have the best seat in the house. Greene, who along with her husband and three other engineers, founded VMware in 1998 as a company that could take the concept of virtualization-the ability to run multiple […]

Gateway is jumping back into the server arena with a new tower system that will sport either dual- or single-core Advanced Micro Devices processors. The companys E-9232T server tower, which officially rolled out on March 15, can use either an AMD dual-core Opteron 1000 series processor or a single-core Athlon 64 3500+ chip. Gateway first […]