Andy Patrizio

Businesses purchased more servers and spent more on them during third quarter compared to last year, according to new research from Gartner — suggesting that some of the doom-and-gloom predictions for the hardware industry may have been overblown. Worldwide server shipments rose by 8.7 percent on a unit basis and 2.6 percent on a dollar […]

HP has struck an exclusive deal with Scalent Systems to offer the Scalent Virtual Operating Environment (Scalent V/OE) with HP’s blade systems, providing a fast install and recovery option for virtualized servers. As part of this particular deal, Scalent V/OE software will be available through HP beginning next month as part of the HP BladeSystem […]

Despite so much concern over data security these days, there’s one point of weakness that might not have occurred to many IT managers: their testing process. Many modern ERP  and CRM  applications have to be tested with live data, since “dummy” or made-up data typically isn’t enough, and that potentially means databases are open to […]

The .NET and Java worlds have long had a gulf between them that’s been difficult to bridge. Mainsoft has partnered with IBM to help shrink that divide a little by offering Mainsoft’s bridging software with IBM’s enterprise Java server. Under the terms of the agreement, IBM will sell Mainsoft’s.NET Extensions for WebSphere Portal, which consists […]

Hardware hackers and security experts are claiming that the Apple iPhone might be secretly tracking some user activity. Yet even if those allegations are correct, what exactly it tracks and how much information it discloses remains a mystery. A user first raised the issue in a posting on Hackint0sh.org. In the post, the hacker said […]

Hewlett-Packard’s fourth quarter revenue and profit blew away Wall Street expectations thanks to across the board strength but particular growth in the laptop business, its software market and the printer ink business. On a conference call to discuss the fourth quarter and year-end figures, HP Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd said the board of director […]

Using variations on trusted, popular domains has long been a common tactic for scammers, spammers and porn sites. But cyber criminals have devised a new twist on the misspelled domain-name trick by hijacking IP addresses. And they tried it on Yahoo. To fix the old problem, server-based security products would trace the IP address of […]

AMD today formally introduced Spider, a platform with all of the latest CPU, graphics processor and chipset technologies in one high performance package. The heart of the platform is Phenom, the quad core desktop processor built on the same technology as the Quad Core Opteron, also known as Barcelona, while graphics is driven by its […]

Reporter’s Notebook: It was, perhaps, inevitable that litigation would follow the accusations that Comcast, the second largest cable provider in the country, is throttling its BitTorrent traffic. In this case, though, it’s likely only the lawyers will win. The case stems from an Associated Press report last month that found Comcast was interfering with peer-to-peer […]

When Shawn Macleod of Austin, Texas, suspected his estranged wife was engaging in some kind of suspicious behavior, he installed a spyware program on her computer to monitor her e-mails and Web behavior. He now faces four years in jail. The turn of events began in August 2005 when Macleod’s estranged wife Kristy reported to […]

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is seeing no signs of weakness in the global chip market, despite some recent setbacks from manufacturing accidents and plunging prices. And, so far, the trend toward virtualization isn’t having much of an impact, either. The trade association estimates worldwide sales will surpass $321 billion in 2010 with a compound […]

Dell on Thursday announced it had signed an agreement to acquire privately held Everdream, a company started in the late 1990s offering PC rental by the month that has since evolved into a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of remote service management. Terms were not disclosed and the purchase will not be final until all closing conditions […]