Wednesday - May 7, 2008
HP announced on Tuesday a new, highly scalable storage system meant to address the needs of online and digital media businesses. The HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System is designed to simplify the management of multiple petabytes of data with an eye to affordability. New Web 2.0-centric businesses and digital media companies like photo-sharing, streaming video, video-on-demand and social networking operations produce an enormous quantity of file-based data they need to store, manage and retrieve on the fly.
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Saturday - May 3, 2008
Teller-line capture. Customer relationship management software. Real-time alerts. Threat detection and recovery, branch automation, in all its flavors, is here to stay, and community bankers are increasingly embracing it. Atlantic Southern Bank, decided to automate the way it reviewed its financial numbers by signing on with Banker's Dashboard. The results were immediate.
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Thursday - May 1, 2008
It's a phrase that we hear all too frequently: "We're moving off our mainframe." Yet virtually anyone who has ever had a mainframe continues to utilize it in some fashion. These robust and highly functional legacy systems contain years and years of data, and when you're talking about abandoning them altogether, you're also talking about a huge chunk of change. The truth is the mainframe is not disappearing.
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Tuesday - April 29, 2008
Intel has signed a multiyear agreement with supercomputer vendor Cray. The deal gives microchips from Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel an avenue into Cray supercomputer systems that serve some of the most highly advanced computing applications in the government, military and engineering sectors.
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Monday - April 28, 2008
AMD on Monday launched a new line of PCs targeting small and medium-sized businesses. Through its business class initiative, the chipmaker aims to provide desktop solutions to customers stuck between consumer PCs and enterprise-class systems.
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Friday - April 25, 2008
Japan-based Toshiba reported a 95 percent drop in profit in the January-March fiscal fourth quarter, blaming its loss in the high-definition format war that pitted its HD DVD format against Sony's Blu-ray. Toshiba reported a profit of about $12 million for the quarter, compared with approximately $250 million a year earlier.
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Wednesday - April 23, 2008
Apple has purchased chip designer P.A. Semi for $278 million in cash, according to Forbes. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm is a self-described fabless semiconductor firm that delivers processors for the high-performance embedded-computing market. The company specializes in low-power chips that could be useful in Apple's iPhone and iPod devices.
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Friday - April 18, 2008
Bracing for more bad news from Advanced Micro Devices, investors were relieved the slumping chipmaker posted a first-quarter loss no worse than what Wall Street expected. However, shares of the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company rose just 4 cents to $6.23 in after-hours trading Thursday, as AMD executives remained tightlipped about how they plan to cut costs further and return to profitability.
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Thursday - April 17, 2008
Sales of personal computers continued their growth trends in the first quarter despite the U.S. economic slowdown, according to studies released simultaneously by Gartner and IDC. Notebook sales are driving the PC market worldwide, according to the reports, and there are sharper PC sales in developing markets, such as India and the Asia-Pacific region, than in the U.S.
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Thursday - April 17, 2008
Benefiting from strong overseas sales and a weak U.S. dollar, IBM posted strong quarterly results and raised its guidance, adding to what's becoming a winning streak for technology stocks. On the heels of a strong report from fellow tech bellwether Intel, IBM beat expectations for its first quarter, with a 26 percent jump in profit.
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Wednesday - April 16, 2008
Intel posted first-quarter results Tuesday that met or slightly beat expectations -- the chipmaker lowered its own targets last month -- and posted record revenue for the seasonally slow time of year. The company's results were a win for the tech sector, with investors driving Intel shares up about 6 percent in afternoon trading Wednesday to $22.12.
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