Andy Patrizio

In the 1980s, PC owners frequently purchased a math co-processor for their 286- and 386-based computers to speed up calculations and number crunching. Fast-forward 20 years, and AMD has a supercomputing math co-processor card that can give half a teraflop of performance in a $2,000 form factor. The company plans to introduce an update to […]

Want to know why Symantec spent $350 million to acquire data loss prevention firm Vontu? Salesforce.com just found out why. Salesforce.com is doing damage control after a gullible employee inadvertently revealed a customer contact list to a phisher, which has, in turn, allowed the scam artists to engage in targeted phishing attacks against Salesforce’s customers. […]

IBM on Wednesday announced a series of upgrades to its Rational software development tools as a part of its Mainframe Simplification program. Far from abandoning or migrating applications off the mainframe, these tools are designed to lengthen the life span of mainframe COBOL applications and move them into a service-oriented-architecture (SOA) world. IBM announced its […]

With its $350 million purchase of Vontu, Symantec jumped to the head of the pack as a digital loss prevention company and now it’s looking to build on this purchase to get into the enterprise security market it has long coveted. The two companies were already on familiar terms. Symantec was a reseller of Vontu’s […]

Dell today announced the latest member of its Precision line of high performance notebooks, the M2300, which fills out the low end of the line in terms of size, but not necessarily capability. The Precision line consists of Core 2 Duo laptops with 2GB or more of memory and a Quadro graphics chip from Nvidia, […]

It’s good to be a small to medium sized business these days if you’re looking for more technology solutions. IBM, HP, Sun and Dell are all showing greater interest in SMBs, that had long been the domain of local integrators, helping them replace a back room of wires and white boxes with integrated blade systems […]

UPDATED: SAN FRANCISCO– IBM announced a series of software products and sales promotions built around server consolidation and virtualization as a part of its Big Green initiative. While the power and cooling message remains a popular one, other aspects of today’s announcements may prove more popular. The consolidation program centers around IBM’s POWER6 processor and […]

Microsoft is making the rounds to preview and promote its forthcoming Windows Server 2008 and Internet Information Server 7, the Web server that ships as a part of the operating system. A lot has changed in computing since the last major release of Microsoft’s operating system. Server software, however, is more change-resistant, since IT shops […]

The surest sign an operating system has arrived is when virus writers begin to target it. Welcome to the party, Mac OS X. Malware researchers found a new and, for Apple, extremely rare piece of malicious software for the Mac, which comes on the heels of a scathing security review of the Mac OS X […]

Cable giant Comcast is once again denying it throttles BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer traffic just as consumer groups are asking the Federal Communications Commission to stop Comcast from interfering with the traffic and U.S. senators are threatening investigations. In a statement released late Thursday, Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen said, “Comcast does not, has […]

Political issues are finding their way to the Web in some ugly ways, and not just in postings on The Daily Kos and Free Republic, either. One Presidential candidate is being embarrassed by spammers, the rest are being hijacked by spoofers looking to infect computers, and it would seem al Qaeda has a software development […]

Symantec today announced a custom threat analysis and protection service through its Global Services Security Response unit. The program, called Managed Threat Analysis, is designed to help companies facing more targeted attacks from criminals looking to steal intellectual property. In the past year, there has been a rise in targeted attacks at corporations, particularly C-level […]