Chip giant experiments with "cubicle cluster computing" as it looks to maximize efficiencies in its sprawling IT infrastructure.

Xsigo took up the fight for networking to the cloud with an Ethernet version of I/O Director.

In his VMworld keynote, CEO Paul Maritz warned that IT needs new tools to deal with the growing wave of cloud-based applications and consumer devices enterprise users are adopting. The solution? IT as a Service.

As VMworld kicks off, it is clear that a consolidation of virtual players is under way.

At VMworld, the virtualization giant delivers its vision of the cloud as an IT service for applications, leveraging its SpringSource technologies.

The company credits its strong quarter to a continuing corporate system refresh cycle and surging demand for IT services.

Free tool designed to help IT assess current infrastructure costs and potential savings of a move to cloud computing.

With backers that include Dell and Salesforce, Xsigo will announce what it says will be a virtual I/O breakthrough for the data center.

Big Blue Releases its biggest Unix Server yet, a Power7 system that boasts record transaction performance.

New release of Microsoft's self-service portal aims to improve data center administrators' ability to quickly provision virtual machines for internal customers.

The virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure consulting firm will enhance CA's services division.

Novell extends its SUSE Linux to run on Amazon EC2 as efforts ramp up among Linux vendors to offer customers ways to transition their workloads to cloud computing environments.

Promises to double application performance on Sparc systems every two years.

Oracle is investing in Sun's Unix and will use technologies from openSolaris as part of the next-generation release.

Next week's event will tout Oracle's systems approach, Sun hardware and the benefits of private clouds.

New systems management release offers improved virtualization integration for enterprise users.

With the future of OpenSolaris under Oracle unclear, a new effort aims to deliver an alternative to the popular open source software.

As Novell's appliance program hits its one year anniversary, the company is planning some innovative advances.

Regulators to question IBM over allegations of misbehavior in the tiny market for high-powered workhorses.

The next generation of the popular BSD operating system is now available, providing stability and performance gains for open source software users.

The mainframe supports a major upgrade that reflects a structural change at IBM.

Expanded partnership will deliver a cloud computing version of IBM's database running on Ubuntu Linux.

New open source software effort is set to deliver technology for enterprise clouds, building on separate efforts currently under way at Rackspace and NASA.

Five new virtualization applications are designed to simplify life for IT managers and ease the complexity of moving virtual data loads throughout the organization.

The new open source OS release delivers a "better" filesystem (Btrfs) for Linux while updating packages and performance.