Andy Patrizio

Seagate today introduced the first in what it expects will be the future direction of hard disk technology, drives that use NAND Flash memory as an extra-large cache. The launch comes as vendors are experimenting with integrating solid-state, all-Flash drives into their PC disk storage offerings. SanDisk, for instance, recently announced plans for a solid-state […]

The computer vendor wooing of small to mid-size business (SMB) customers continued today, with IBM’s announcement of new software designed to provide those growing companies with the kinds of tools normally only available to enterprises. IBM said it plans to avoid the mistakes of other products aimed at the SMB market, which have fallen short […]

Security experts urge anyone running Java on their computer should upgrade their software immediately, regardless of platform. The reason? Sun just plugged several severe vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment that could leave computers open to severe compromise. “It is always Sun’s recommendation that people use the latest release of Java technology,” Bill Curci, product […]

IBM is ready to cross swords with HP over blades. The company is taking on HP’s just-released c3000 server, a.k.a. “Shorty,” by offering an upgrade to its BladeCenter system to make it more office-friendly. The BladeCenter S, unveiled in July, was aimed at the small and mid-sized business (SMB) market at launch, but the Office […]

Enterprises may rest a bit easier now that Symantec is going after botnets, with the expansion of its Managed Security Service to include the Global Intelligence Network (GIN). The new service scans network traffic for threat data sources, identifies malware and checks traffic against known blacklists. The service includes botnet detection at no extra charge. […]

A decade ago, Intel was shipping the Pentium II processor and Linux was a fringe operating system used by a few Internet fanatics. No one at the time would ever have thought the two in combination would be a match for Sun’s SPARC/Solaris combination, HP’s PA-RISC/HP-UX, IBM’s POWER/AIX or SGI’s MIPS/IRIX. Funny what a decade […]

While Internet security has reached critical mass in terms of consumer awareness, a large percentage of Americans are far less protected than they realize. That’s the bottom line of a report from McAfee and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), the latter of which conducted the survey. The NCSA-McAfee survey was conducted over the phone […]

Sun Microsystems announced Monday that it would join its server and storage businesses internally, while maintaining a separate sales and marketing face for the two groups. Sun executives determined it made sense to put both servers and storage all under one roof, because the two groups tend to frequently work together, often hand-in-hand. “Now, why […]

Adobe Systems is the latest entrant to the increasingly popular field of software-as-a-service  and online applications by virtue of its purchase of a startup firm that’s been developing an online word processor that’s coincidentally built on Adobe technology. The company on Monday announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virtual Ubiquity, developer […]

Consolidation is inevitable in virtually every industry, but the antivirus software market seems to defy that law of economics. The dozens of competitors are sticking around, thanks to the endless supply of malicious code coming from Russia and China. Symantec and McAfee are the two best-known players, but Trend Micro is doing better than McAfee, […]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a technology patent case that has the potential to throw the entire technology supply chain into upheaval — or prompt closer adherence to technology licensing terms. Those disparate outcomes are both possible from a case involving two parties that aren’t even U.S. companies. In 2000, LG […]

The latest target for the malware criminal element is those popular widget-driven applications, both desktop and browser-based, thanks to their explosion in popularity and relatively insecure model. Security firm Finjan issued a recent report that found that widgets (or gadgets) are exposing computer users to a whole host of attacks because they were designed […]