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There is no rest for the wicked, or anyone else this summer, as last week had a number of big events. One of the largest is that Acer moved around Lenovo and Apple -- which is also coming up fast -- to become the No. 3 PC manufacturer by buying Gateway. For those who wanted an iPhone but couldn't af...
Pano Logic announced Tuesday an all-hardware, no-software desktop device designed specifically for server-based desktop virtualization. The device connects keyboard, mouse, display, audio and USB peripherals over an existing IP network to a copy of Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows XP running on a ...
Intel has upgraded its vPro processor technology for desktop PCs with a host of new security features that protect against viruses, hacker attacks and other threats, the company announced Monday. The upgraded vPro, formerly code-named "Weybridge," combines an Intel Core 2 Duo processor with an Intel...
IBM and Sun Microsystems announced Thursday the two long-time rivals have formed a partnership that will bring Sun's Solaris operating system to IBM servers. The "comprehensive relationship" will see both companies embark on a mission to jointly serve enterprise clients seeking to run the OS on IBM'...
Police departments release annual figures detailing the number of crimes committed in a given year. While these statistics may be useful for high-level planning, they don't put anyone in jail. What is needed is convincing evidence of exactly who did what, where and when. The same can be said for net...
Get ready for easy-to-use home servers. With Monday's release to manufacturers of the long-awaited Windows Home Server software, vendors will be putting the devices on the market this fall. There once was a time when homes with more than one PC were rare. However, now a modern household can have mul...
"Modular" and "virtualized" are now buzzwords of the enterprise server world, and Sun Microsystems is aiming to offer both with its rollout of the Blade 6000 Modular System. The line of servers includes models that run on Intel's and AMD's processors, as well as on Sun's. Memory installed in the hig...
Microsoft has decided to slash several key features from its Windows Server virtualization software, code-named "Viridian," in an effort to meet quality goals and a release deadline. The new hypervisor-based virtualization technology, available as part of Windows Server "Longhorn," will ship without...
Microsoft has pushed back its plans to deliver the much-anticipated public beta of its next-generation server virtualization software, code-named "Viridian." Instead of delivering the beta in the first half of the year, Microsoft will offer it up to the public sometime in the second half of 2007. Th...
Leading IT vendors have proposed a new Fiber Channel over Ethernet standard to the T11 Committee of the American National Standards Institute. The new FCoE specification is designed to let organizations transmit Storage Area Network traffic over Ethernet networks, which would give organizations more...
Technology research firm IDC released a report Tuesday in which it revised an earlier forecast on customer spending in the x86 server market for the remainder of the decade. The company downgraded its original projection that x86 shipments would increase 61 percent by 2010, now predicting an increas...
Yesterday, Bill Gates was supposed to give the best keynote talk in his history, but given I write this column the week before it is published I have no idea whether he actually delivered the goods. Steve Jobs doesn't do his thing until after the column publishes and most of you are still in the dar...
Founded in 1998 in San Antonio, Rackspace started as a managed hosting company for small businesses. Today, it includes Fortune 500 firms in its customer Rolodex, as well. However, just as when it first opened its doors, Rackspace offers no add-on services such as hardware sales or phone company ser...
Microsoft on Tuesday opened a private beta of its new enterprise voice communications server to 2,500 IT professionals. Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 allows companies to integrate Voice over Internet Protocol technology into existing telephony infrastructure. The software giant hopes t...
Intel this week began selling quad-core Xeon and Core2 Extreme chips, making good on its promise to deliver four-core computer processors ahead of rival chip maker AMD. Market uptake of the new chips may be limited to customers who need improved performance over that of dual-core processing. Nonethe...
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