Jeffrey Burt

There is little if any status quo in the technology business, and that fact was on full display in 2006. Stalwarts such as Bill Gates and Scott McNealy took a back seat after decades of leading their companies; Dell, which seemed unstoppable over the past few years as other OEMs struggled, found its own share […]

Add Gateway to the list of PC makers that are recalling batteries made by Sony. The Irvine, Calif., company on Oct. 23 issued a voluntary recall of 35,000 lithium-ion batteries that have shipped with its notebooks since 2005. Gateway joins a growing group of manufacturers that have recalled the batteries since Dell in August announced […]

Hewlett-Packard overtook Dell as the world’s top PC vendor in the third quarter, according to research firms IDC and Gartner. This is the first time that HP has been in the No. 1 spot since Dell overtook it in the fourth quarter of 2003, according to both surveys, though both said the margin between the […]

Sun Microsystems believes the answer to some of the problems of power, cooling and speed of IT deployment in enterprise data centers could be found in a standard shipping container. Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz and other company officials on Oct. 17 will unveil Sun’s Project Blackbox, an initiative in which all the technology […]

Hewlett-Packard has appointed a new chief ethics and compliance officer in the wake of the controversy surrounding its investigation into news leaks over the past two years. Jon Hoak, former senior vice president and general counsel for NCR, is replacing Kevin Hunsaker, one of five people charged in California last week with four felonies in […]

Investigators hired by Hewlett-Packard not only obtained telephone records through legally questionable means, but also went as far as to follow reporters and members of the board of directors, including one director traveling to Colorado, according to the company. The disclosure came Sept. 22 during a press conference by President and CEO Mark Hurd, the […]

Buoyed by a second quarter that saw gains in server and storage revenue—including more than $100 million in sales of its “Niagara”-based systems—Sun Microsystems is returning to Wall Street Sept. 13 to stake its claim as a top solutions company. In New York, Sun will unveil upgrades to its low-end SPARC systems as well as […]

Fujitsu Computer Systems’ virtualized infrastructure is now ready to run SAP’s SOA applications. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company’s FlexFrame for MySAP Business Suite has been certified to support the software maker’s growing service-oriented architecture initiative, said Pat Hanford, director of alliances at Fujitsu. “We’ll be able to run any SAP service on any server at any […]

Stratus Technologies is adding to its growing telecommunication capabilities with the $10 million purchase of Emergent Network Solutions. Although the deal closed in August, Stratus is waiting until Sept. 12 at the Fall VON show in Boston to announce the deal. Stratus counts telecom as one of the key verticals it targets, one in which […]

Engineers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and about 20 technology vendors this month will wrap up a demonstration that they said shows DC power distribution in the data center can save up to 15 percent or more on energy consumption and cost. The proof-of-concept program, set up at Sun Microsystems’ Newark, Calif., facility, offered […]

When George Daniels looks at today’s data centers, he sees an outdated model in desperate need of change. The linear rows of rectangular boxes, cooled by large air conditioning units hanging along the walls, in many instances can no longer address the needs of the modern-day data center, where greater flexibility and more efficient power […]

The U.S. Senate is next in line to take up the issue of power consumption in data centers. Mirroring what the House of Representatives did the week of July 10, the Senate on July 19 introduced a bill that would have the federal Environmental Protection Agency review the issues surrounding power consumption in data centers, […]