Mark Hurd is going back into the data warehouse business that he used to be in when he was at NCR, the Teradata business that catapulted him to the top of NCR and from his success there to HP. Maybe it'll be a good luck charm for HP too. It's a strategic move and HP needs the revenue g...

Steve Jobs is supposed to be out from under the threat of criminal charges because of the backdating that went on at Apple even though he picked favorable dates, according to what his hometown paper, the San Jose Mercury News reported Sunday. The news tickled Apple's stock Monday. Howe...

3Leaf Systems introduced the 3Leaf Systems V-8000 Virtual I/O Server. Virtualizing the I/O subsystems for large pools of servers, the V-8000 delivers mainframe-class availability and resiliency for commodity systems while dramatically reducing both capital and maintenance costs.

ASCDI, the Association of Service and Computer Dealers International, has complained to the Office of Fair Trading in the UK about Sun, saying it's breaking UK competition law and closing the secondary market in Sun products in Europe to anyone other than Sun by refusing to supply rese...

At its PartnerWorld 2007 Conference, IBM previewed the latest in next generation client computing with the new BladeCenter 'Workstation Blade', developed in collaboration with Blade.org partner Devon IT. The new offering will include the new IBM Workstation Blade and its associated 'ec...

Greschler is the director of virtualization strategy at Microsoft, and is focused on virtualization management tools for the desktop and datacenter. Greschler came to Microsoft with the July 2006 acquisition of Softricity. Prior to joining Microsoft, Greschler was co-Founder of Softric...

Bill Daniel, president and CEO of Surgient said 'Fred will play a vital role in expanding Surgient?s market presence and meeting the market demand of our entire line of virtualization solutions. We are pleased to welcome Fred as a member of our executive management team and look forwar...

Chelsio Communications announced availability of its T3-based Unified Wire Accelerators, which enable server networking, storage networking and clustering on a single platform. The Unified Wire interconnect solution has been qualified by industry organization Blade.org for use with IBM...

It's all over for Fabric7 Systems. The 20-hour days put in by its CEO Sharad Mehrotra and many of its crew of 70 for the last five years have gone for naught. The company was in the midst of its fourth round expecting a check for another $25 million, but its financiers decided - on Fri...

Rackable president Todd Ford, who was running all day-to-day operations, is on his way out. He's been reduced to executive VP, responsible for some so-called strategic initiatives, and will remain with the company until the end of the year. CEO Tom Barton will pick up the slack, resumi...

CiRBA 4.0 provides in-depth empirical server consolidation and virtualization analysis to generate detailed roadmaps that guide IT organizations to significantly reduce computing costs and increase systems reliability. Once consolidated , CiRBA 4.0 ensures that re-sprawl is avoided an...

EMC subsidiary VMware on Thursday filed its S-1 with the SEC to go public and raise somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million, a number used just to calculate the registration fee. VMware, which EMC bought in ?04 for $625 million, will be offering 10% of its Class A common stock. N...

RIM announced plans to expand its support for Windows Mobile-based devices with a new software application suite that will enable devices from third-party manufacturers to benefit from the popular BlackBerry software applications and services. RIM plans to begin offering the new softwa...

EMC and VMware a provider of virtualization solutions and an EMC subsidiary, announced that VMware has filed a Form S-1 Registration Statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the initial public offering ('IPO') of Class A Common Stock of VMware.

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, and Passlogix announced an expanded strategic partnership that will result in tighter integration between the RSA SecurID two-factor authentication system and the Passlogix v-GO Sign-On Platform authentication and enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) tech...

AMD pre-announced its March quarter, complaining that revenues had suffered a sharp quarter-over-quarter decline to roughly $1.225 billion, down 8% year-over-year. It blamed lower overall ASPs and 'significantly' lower unit sales, especially in the resale channel, pretty much the same ...

Hitachi is bringing a blade server that it's been selling in Japan since September to the US, claiming it's smaller, lighter, denser and less power-hungry than its IBM and HP rivals. The 6U Xeon quad and dual-core-based BladeSymphony 320 has 10 slots and maxs out at 80 cores per chassi...

Marathon Technologies announced a strategic and technology-based partnership with XenSource. The partnership, which will bring Marathon's fault tolerant-class availability to virtual environments, represents a paradigm shift in the way companies will be able to protect virtualized work...

Breaking new ground, Intel has a system-on-a-chip (SoC) project on its 2008 roadmap dubbed Tolapai that by collapsing key system components into a single processor should reduce chip sizes by 45% and power consumption by 20% compared to a standard four-chip design while improving throu...

Intel has introduced what it calls the industry's first 2U 12-drive integrated quad-core storage server that's supposed to enable a new price/performance class for SMBs. The rack-mounted device is built around the quad-core 5300 Xeon and can be configured for NAS, SAN and - given the c...

Intel admitted this week to a having a 'highly parallel IA-based programmable architecture' codenamed Larrabee in its future but it was exceedingly coy with any tangible details like where it sits in the Intel roadmap. But, know this, it's supposed to 'include enhancement to accelerate...

The Patent & Trademark Office has granted the Public Patent Foundation's formal request to review a patent related to remote computer management held by Opsware, one-time Netscape wunderkind Marc Andreessen's current company. PUBPAT says the patent was pre-empted by the work of open so...

First-quarter PC returns are in and according to Gartner and IDC, Dell's slide continues, HP is still ascendant globally and is severely threatening Dell's primacy in the US, Acer ousted Lenovo from third place globally - or is about to - and Apple can claim 5% of the US market and the...

VMware has introduced a free self-service TCO Calculator to estimate the ROI and savings or potential savings derived from its VMware Infrastructure suite. CA just had a survey done that found users were quite hazy on virtualization ROI.

Intel gave some indication this week of what you can expect from its first 45nm leakage-resisting Hi-k metal gate processors, the Penryn family, a bunch of quad- and dual-cores due out later this year. In desktops figure 15% better performance on image-related application; 25% on 3D re...

Once released, the technology called the IBM System p Application Virtual Environment (System p AVE) is designed to open a universe of thousands of x86 Linux applications to the System p platform. The news follows IBM's recent launch of three System p-based Web-tier servers aimed at co...

Centrify, which puts Active Directory-based auditing, access control and identity management on non-Microsoft platforms, has gotten a $15 million third round, bringing its total financing to $36 million. The round was reportedly oversubscribed; the company was only looking for $11 mill...

Citrix Desktop Server is complementary to leading solutions in the desktop virtualization market from companies such as HP and VMware because it provides a comprehensive infrastructure that now enables customers to choose specifically how the desktop is delivered to the end user, regar...

Eventually one of the myriad nirvana schemes that the industry produces to dam up server sprawl is gonna click. Maybe this is the one and web farms and data centers will bless its name. FastScale Technology Inc, a baby start-up only 15 months old, has just gone GA with its first produc...

BladeLogic announced the availability of BladeLogic Virtualization Manager, a new software solution to enable seamless management of physical and virtual computing platforms. BladeLogic Virtualization Manager, a new module in the BladeLogic Operations Manager suite of data center autom...

For users wanting a secure, feature rich alternative to Microsoft Windows, Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today the Thursday release of Ubuntu version 7.04. Ubuntu is the award-winning Linux distribution for the desktop, laptop, thin client and server whic...

Look like EMC has VMware's upcoming IPO penciled in for late June and that the S1 registration papers should start circulating soon. EMC said in February that it would float 10% of the subsidiary, which could be valued at $10 billion.

SAP Enterprise Learning environment will help enable organizations to more easily conduct, measure and track virtual classes while allowing employees to collaborate in real-time with instructors and other learners. SAP and Adobe also announced that they have entered into a global resel...

Brocade announced the availability of Brocade Access Gateway for HP BladeSystem offerings. The new feature enables interoperability between Brocade blade SAN switches and products from other SAN switch and director manufacturers, while also improving SAN management and reducing costs.

Neoware announced that it is continuing to strengthen its Global Channel Program with three new key appointments to its staff. The appointment of Charlie Quinn as Vice President of Channel Business Development, and the additions of Greg Cicio, Director of Channel Business Development; ...

Egenera, Inc., the data center virtualizationcompany, today announced that GXS, a leading provider ofbusiness-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions, has deployed theEgenera® BladeFrame® system to support the newly launched GXS TradingGrid® Ultra infrastructure. GXS Trading Grid facil...

SGI has changed its CEO again. Dennis McKenna was there for the last 14 months and slashed and burned. Now he's out and retread Bo Ewald, who used to be COO of SGI once upon a time, is in. He's supposed to return SGI to growth and profitability, and push it into HPC. His last berth bef...

Mark Jarvis, the Brit who was at Oracle for 14 years last as chief marketing officer, has been hired in the same capacity by Dell, which has never has chief marketing officer before. Jarvis will be responsible for Dell's branding and communications as well as global marketing, report...

Ounce Labs, the leader insoftware security assurance, and Appistry, the pioneer and leading providerof application fabric software, today announced that Appistry is licensingand deploying Ounce Labs' security assurance software for use on itsAppistry Enterprise Application Fabric (Appi...

Scalent Systems, the leading provider ofserver infrastructure repurposing software for large enterprise datacenters, announced that Kevin Epstein has joined its executive teamas vice president of marketing. Kevin will lead corporate branding and marketing program efforts for Scalent. H...