Infrastructure

If it's late November or early December, I'm usually traveling to or from Westchester County, New York, home of IBM and its Software Group and Systems and Technology Group's annual IT analyst confabs. In practical ways, these events tend to mirror one another; past strategies and solutions are trott...

Research In Motion posted its third-quarter earnings data on Thursday, reporting a 71 percent drop in net income and revealing that its long-awaited next-generation smartphone platform will arrive later than expected. The company reported revenue of $5.2 billion, up 24 percent from last quarter but ...

Intel has informed its shareholders that its fourth-quarter results will not match its earlier outlook. The reason: a global shortage of hard disk drives, due to flooding in Thailand earlier this year. Now the company expects fourth-quarter revenue to be approximately $13.7 billion, down from the pr...

Shares of HP had slightly recovered by mid-day Tuesday from the overnight slide of up to 6 percent they endured following the company's fourth-quarter earnings report Monday. Its fourth-quarter earnings -- HP's first quarter under the guidance of new CEO Meg Whitman -- beat expectations, though its ...

Google and its hardware partners are revamping their approach to Chromebooks with a series of changes. Perhaps most interesting among these, from the consumer perspective at least, is a price cut to the current Samsung and Acer models of roughly $50 or so. Specifically, the WiFi Acer Chromebook dro...

Last week, Calxeda launched its ARM-based "EnergyCore" Server on a Chip, which the company said consumes as little as 1.5 watts -- the first server CPU to achieve this milestone. This makes EnergyCore ideal for workloads such as Web serving, Big Data applications, scalable analytics such as Apache ...

HP has made up its mind: New CEO Meg Whitman announced Thursday the PC business is sticking around, at least in the short term. The company had been pondering whether to continue selling personal computers. Earlier this year, under the leadership of then-CEO Leo Apotheker, HP said strategic options ...

Oracle announced at its OpenWorld conference on Monday that it's ramping up its move into big data analytics. An Oracle big data appliance was one of the announcements made at OpenWorld 2011 by Thomas Kurian, Oracle executive VP of product development. Big data also featured prominently in a Monday ...

Two of the world's leading semiconductor manufacturers, Intel and IBM, announced a shared investment Tuesday of $4.4 billion to develop cutting-edge chip technology in the state of New York. The partnership, a continuation of a decade-long project, has two main goals. First, the industry aims to in...

Oracle announced its new Sparc T4 server line on Tuesday, stating the new machines outperform IBM Power7 and HP Itanium-based systems. In fact, the Sparc T4-4-based SuperCluster is 2.4 times faster than an all-IBM solution and 5.7 times faster than the HP Superdome 2, Oracle said. The SPARC SuperClu...

Coming just weeks before the beginning of the holiday shopping season so crucial to its consumer OEM/ODM customers, Intel's annual Developer Forum tends to highlight the spun sugar and sweet delights the market can expect in the shorter term. However, as IDF 2011 in San Francisco recently proved, it...

Just over a year after taking the job as HP's top executive, CEO Leo Apotheker may soon be unceremoniously escorted to the door. The company's board of directors is reportedly meeting on this and other issues this week. The board is said to be eying former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as a replacement. Whit...

HP has opted to continue producing its TouchPad tablet device, at least temporarily, in response to an explosion of demand among consumers. That demand was likely spurred by the drastic drop in price the tablet underwent earlier this month -- just after HP announced that it was discontinuing the Tou...

HP on Thursday shared some eyebrow-raising news regarding its operations, essentially proposing to reposition itself to solely focus on the enterprise market. Briefly, it plans to shutter development of hardware for webOS devices, acquire Autonomy, and either spin off or sell its PC division. The l...

HP revealed plans for major strategic changes Thursday that would orient the company more directly toward the enterprise market. It's considering a spinoff or sale of its PC division, shuttering development of hardware for webOS devices and cutting its future outlook. The tech company also revealed ...