David Needle

Citrix expanded its product portfolio with the acquisition of Reflectent Software. Terms of the deal, announced today, were not disclosed. The acquisition was a natural fit, according to Lou Shipley, Reflectent’s president and CEO. Reflectant’s EdgeSite monitoring software had already been designed for Citrix Presentation Server, and, Shipley told internetnews.com the two companies were already […]

SAN FRANCISCO and NEW YORK — IT managers need new weapons to battle the beast of rising energy costs as their data centers become an increasingly sore spot of higher bills and space constraints. Among the reasons for this negative turn is the growing cost of energy and the power required to cool the increasing […]

For once, it’s Intel, not AMD, making noise about the big antitrust case involving the two companies. Intel on Tuesday filed a motion that seeks to greatly reduce the scope of the case. In the motion, sent to the U.S. District Court of Delaware where the case is being heard, Intel asked the court to […]

With an eye toward streamlining security and compliance procedures in a post-9/11 world, Panasonic released the KV-S1025 Color Duplex (CD) Workgroup Scanner. The CD Workgroup Scanner includes Panasonic’s unique “double-exposure” technology, which can automatically scan and combine the content of both sides of an ID card or document into a single electronic image. A single-pass […]

MENLO PARK, CALIF. — Sun Microsystems is going to have a bit of fun at its JavaOne conference later this month with the first Slot Car Programming Challenge. The purpose behind the Challenge is a bit more serious, however. Sun says it wants attendees to experience the Real Time Java (RTJ, also known as RTJS, […]

Intel doesn’t want to use the “L” word, but layoffs seem inevitable at the world’s largest chip maker. In an internal email to Intel’s IT staff obtained by internetnews.com, company CIO John “JJ” Johnson, said the department “must rapidly adjust our programs and headcount to meet our new Plan of Record (POR) spending and headcount […]

AMD this week alerted several hundred customers that certain single-core Opteron processors may be susceptible to inconsistent results. AMD said the affected chips included single-core Opteron x52 (2.6 GHz) and x54 (2.8 GHz) chips, which were produced in late 2005 and early 2006. Also, AMD said the inconsistency only showed in floating point-intensive code sequences […]

Looking to further exploit what it sees as a gap in traditional data and application integration solutions, Cast Iron Systems plans to release the next generation of its integration appliance May 2. The Cast Iron iA3000 and iA3000HA (High Availability) features up to five times the performance over previous models, support for complex data validation […]

You get the feeling Intel wishes it were summer already. Speaking at Intel’s spring analysts’ meeting in New York today, CEO Paul Otellini reiterated a theme heard in the chip giant’s earnings call earlier this month: Just wait until summer. The reason? In the second half of this year, the company plans to release what […]

Okay, not everyone has $100,000 to spare, but that’s the price of IBM’s latest mainframe and it’s half the price of its next least-expensive mainframe, the z890, which starts at just under $100,000. With the debut of the IBM System z9 today, IBM says it’s going after a new class of customers: small-to-medium-sized businesses that […]

Corel is a public company again. The graphics and productivity software firm went from public to private when it was purchased by Vector Capital Group, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm in 2003. The initial public offering of 6,500,000 common shares by the Ottawa, Canada-based Corel is priced at $16.00 (U.S.) per share. The offering […]

AMD continues to be a thorn in market leader Intel’s side. The latest figures from Mercury Research shows AMD’s Opteron processors now account for 22.1 percent of the market for x86 server processors chips shipped worldwide in the first quarter, up from 16.4 percent last quarter and a whopping 254 percent increase over AMD’s share […]