Stuart J. Johnston

How many cores do you want on your server CPUs? Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) this week updated its Xeon family of CPUs with more processors cores and performance. Overall, Intel’s new E7 family consists of 18 processors that fit two-, four-, and eight-socket servers. Additionally, they are expandable to servers with as many as 256 sockets, Intel […]

SMEStorage is shipping CloudFTP, an add-on supports most popular FTP clients with the company’s open cloud platform or with many other vendors’ cloud platforms. “You can think of our solution as a ‘cloud of clouds’ or as a cloud data broker in which we provide sophisticated access and additional services to the underlying data silos,” […]

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is no stranger to facing anti-trust and competition issues in Europe and elsewhere. This week however, Microsoft is going on the offensive, filing a complaint against Google in the European Union over alleged anti-competitive actions taken by Google’s search engine. Google has already been under investigation in Europe over alleged anti-competitive practices in […]

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (WP7) mobile devices have been on the market for more than five months so far, and the company is touting that its app store now has some 11,500 apps available. While that’s well behind the 350,000 or so apps available via Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) App Store, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) officials claim […]

Research in Motion (RIM) has licensed a trove of more than 30,000 patents from a company founded by former Microsoft veterans. It’s a move that may help the BlackBerry maker ward off patent infringement lawsuits. Intellectual Ventures (IV), which bills itself as an “invention company,” announced the deal Wednesday. The firm is headed by Nathan […]

Windows 8, already? Though Windows 8 may still be a year or more away from being generally available, Microsoft has started sending early builds of Windows 8 to some OEM partners, according to one report. The story broke on the WinRumors enthusiasts site, which said that the builds are being distributed via Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) […]

Smartphone sales continue to track upwards, according to a new report from IDC. The current market leader for smartphone operating systems is Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android with 39.5 percent share. IDC also has Android pegged as the leader in 2015 with a projected share of 45.4 percent. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nokia’s deal to ship […]

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) isn’t just a microprocessor vendor. The chip vendor is also involved in the storage market by way of its Solid State Drive(SSD)product portfolio, which is now being refreshed. Intel is advancing its SSD efforts with a third generation of products with capacities ranging from 40 GB to 600 GB. Intels SSDs use a […]

If photo pioneer Eastman Kodak wins its patent suit against Apple and Research in Motion (RIM), it could turn out to be worth more than $1 billion in royalties, the company’s CEO said Thursday. Then Friday afternoon, there appeared to be a ray of hope, when the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) said it would […]

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is changing the way it bundles and prices some of its enterprise product licenses. Microsoft currently has two types of CALs (client access license)– a Core CAL and an Enterprise CAL (ECAL) Step Up edition. In the current version, the Core CAL provides licenses for basic server products such as Windows Server, Systems […]

Chalk up another one for SGI. Less than two weeks after announcing Microsoft certification to run Windows Server 2008 Release 2 (R2) on 128 physical cores and 1 TB of memory, SGI has come back to announce it has now been certified for 256 cores and 2 TB of memory, and there’s more to come. […]

The March 2011 IT brand leadership survey, from tracking company IT Brand Pulse has found EMC (NYSE:EMC) to be the market leader for unified storage. EMC’s leadership was not however a clean sweep in the unified storage category. Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) Compellent storage business won in price leadership, while NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) came out as […]