Now here's a curiosity. Intel is backing a start-up that depends on AMD technology to do what's it's doing. No, really, swear to God. In fact, Intel led the stealth outfit's $20 million B round last September, bringing total investment to $32.5 million. Either Intel has mothballed its ...

Mark Hurd said that HP had more than 700 datamarts, 87 datacenters, 20 petabytes of non-shared storage, and were running on 5,000 applications. Since his arrival in 2004, the company has reduced the number of datacenters to three and consolidated 9,000 servers 'by virtualizing and blad...

The storm was Intel, whose refreshed product line won back seven points of share in servers, eight points in desktops and four points in notebooks. Intel in Q1 owned 80.5% of the total market, according to Mercury's count, up six points sequentially, reducing AMD to less than 20% for t...

IDC analyst David Senf, commenting on the relatively slow growth of SOA adoption in Canada, said at an event last week that 'when we look at companies who have automated more tasks, who have virtualized across these different layers, we do see them achieving various cost benefits, bein...

Egenera has gone to market with its promised vBlade software, the extension to its PAN Manager that provides a single environment for configuring, allocating, repurposing and managing both physical servers and virtual machines. This initial implementation uses XenEnterprise, a virtuali...

Something happened at Rackable between last Thursday when Rackable president Todd Ford was ousted and CEO Tom Barton took over his job and Monday morning when Barton himself was tossed out on his ear and replaced as president and CEO by Rackable board member Mark Barrenechea, late of G...

Azul is working with both established enterprises as well as market leading up-and-comers in this emerging sector, transparently delivering massive amounts of processing and memory to transaction-hungry applications as a shared network service. This is an approach the company calls net...

HP Chairman, CEO, and President Mark Hurd delivered a presentation about the company's internal virtualization efforts at a recent industry conference. He led off his presentation with an anecdote he likes to tell about his relatively low profile compared to his predecessor.

VMware, Inc., the global leader in software for industry-standard virtualized desktops and servers, today announced the general availability of VMware Workstation 6, the sixth generation of its desktop virtualization software product. VMware Workstation 6 delivers groundbreaking advanc...

Opal Future Technologies Inc. integrated critical .NET applications and web services at a fraction of the time it would have taken to translate software code and avoided the inherent incompatibility risk involved in rewriting software languages. With WebSphere Portal use of .NET-Java E...

VBlades, which are priced as an add-on, are user-defined partitions of a physical blade to consolidate multiple VMs on a single physical server. Pan can figure out whether an application needs a whole blade or just part of one. It saves the user from having to add another domain expert...

This was a virtual story with a virtual death. The story itself was never affirmed nor denied, and it flickered out before it had any traction. This was not a rumor, but it was also not a real story. There is a continuous stream of communications among technology companies large and sm...

The first version of WebLogic Server Virtual Edition will run as a virtual system on top of VMware's virtualization platform, offering a lightweight custom-built operating system written with the goal of running a Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

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.

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...

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...