Andy Patrizio

Business Objects is having quite a month. Its quarterly numbers are due on October 24 and it’s in the middle of a $6.7 billion merger with SAP. But that’s not slowing the firm down. It’s shipping the first new version of Crystal Reports in three years. This latest version, Crystal Reports 2008, is getting a […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Some of the top promoters and leaders of open source projects gathered at Sun Microsystems today to update press and analysts on the company’s growing list of projects and initiatives. Long criticized as a company that benefited from many open source projects without giving back in kind, and hounded to make […]

The long-rumored MySpace API set for developers may see the light of day at a Web 2.0 conference next week. The blog site TechCrunch reports that third-party developers have been contacted for input into MySpace Platform, which will be formally introduced at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco next week. The fact that MySpace […]

While it does not enjoy the profile, press or mass awareness of the Xeon, Intel’s Itanium chip is holding its own and continues to receive significant investment from the company. In just a few weeks, Intel will ship its latest Itanium, codenamed Montvale, followed next year by a major revision, Tukwila. The fact that Intel […]

The latest move in IBM’s Project Big Green is what it calls a “gas gauge” for its mainframes, allowing customers to monitor their systems’ precise energy consumption in real-time. By doing so, mainframe users can get a far more accurate picture of how much power they are actually using at any given time or over […]

Microsoft has issued a rare out-of-pocket security alert concerning the current version of Internet Explorer. The newly discovered vulnerability affects Windows XP, Server 2003 and Windows 2000 but not Vista, and it does not affect Internet Explorer 6.0 or earlier. It only involves XP/2000/Server 2003 running IE 7. In a posting to its security blog, […]

YouTube’s viral nature is coming back to bite the company and Internet users, as spammers are using YouTube’s “Invite Your Friends” option to blast out their junk e-mail. The TRACE team of U.K. e-mail and Internet content security provider Marshal issued a warning last week that spammers were using the “Invite Your Friends” system to […]

It’s out with the hard drives and in with the virtual desktop if Dell has its way. The PC and enterprise server giant today talked up plans to take on the thin-client marketplace with its new On-Demand Desktop Streaming offering. The effort, announced by CEO Michael Dell during the Gartner IT Expo in Orlando, Fla., […]

The promise behind virtualization has long been that one well-equipped server could do the work of several. So what happens once customers begin following that idea — and buying fewer servers? That scenario is cause for concern, according to industry analyst Infiniti Research. This week, the firm published a study indicating that server sales will […]

A favorite target of virus writers, Internet Explorer, is the recipient of four new vulnerability fixes today from Microsoft in the latest of the company’s regular monthly product updates. The most significant of the IE patches addresses remote code execution exploits in specially crafted Web pages. Amol Sarwate, research manager for the security firm Qualys, […]

Controversial peer-to-peer file sharing company BitTorrent, Inc., is making new moves toward establishing itself as a legitimate content delivery play, today unveiling a business service designed to quickly and cheaply stream media to users’ desktops. The company’s service, called BitTorrent Delivery Network Accelerator (DNA), takes advantage of BitTorrent’s eponymous, open-source architecture for distributed, peer-to-peer content […]

Sun Microsystems today announced the first servers to utilize its new UltraSPARC T2 processor, also known as Niagara 2. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 servers will be the first rack mount systems to use the T2 processor, which features eight cores and supports eight threads per core. And the 5120 is a 1U unit with […]