James Niccolai

COMPUTEX 2011: Ultrabooks will evolve over a few years into a new class of thin and light laptops. An initial crop of Ultrabook PCs will go on sale from PC makers in time for the holiday shopping season at the end of this year

The company benefitted from a resurgent Unix market to grow its server business for the first time. Oracle has worked hard over the past year to convince customers it will continue to invest in Sun's hardware, and those efforts appear finally to be paying off

COMPUTEX 2011: ARM needs to build a whole server market ecosystem before ARM servers are a reality, its president said. Several companies are working on ARM-based processors for servers, including Nvidia, Marvell, and Calxeda

COMPUTEX 2011: CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said Nvidia's Kal-El processor will be the first quad-core chip for tablets. The dual-core Tegra 2 is used in the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the LG Optimus and the Acer Transformer

While Redmond is promising integration with its own suite of products, Microsoft's CEO says the company won't leave users on other platforms out in the cold

The Uptime Institute says large companies are putting workloads in third-party data centres. A new survey lists the primary ways companies said they would boost capacity

The networking giant hopes the containers will be a vehicle to sell more of its server, networking and other products. The container comes with a new management tool which monitors the rack temperature and other variables in real time

The purchase of iExtensions, which makes customer relationship management software for IBM Lotus Notes users, is a move to attract more enterprise customers and compete better against bigger rivals like Salesforce.com and Microsoft