Andy Patrizio

Terracotta today announced the availability of Terracotta for Caching, a high-performance cache for databases that can offload the continuous requests between client and server, thus easing the load on the database. This new version incorporates Terracotta’s recently acquired Ehcache, a widely used open source distributed cache geared for general purpose caching, Java EE and lightweight […]

NEC Corporation of America today announced a fault-tolerant server it claims is simpler to deploy and a whole lot cheaper than other solutions. The NEC Fault Tolerant Express5800/300 series promises 99.999 percent uptime, the vaunted “five nines” of uptime that only the most reliable systems claim, for under $20,000. NEC also announced data mirroring synchronization […]

While things have settled down and sales have even begun to rise in the battered semiconductor industry, there are still signs that the sector faces challenges this year and into next. FBR Capital Markets, which has been watching the semiconductor supply chain like a hawk, issued a more cautionary note than it has been sending […]

We knew Windows Vista was unpopular, but this is downright funny. A survey by Net Applications found that Vista is already beginning to shrink in terms of market share and those loses are to the gain of Windows 7. Net Applications is a site monitoring and analytics provider. It gathers data from 40,000 Web sites […]

In an industry known for its planned obsolescence, few technologies have lasted three decades and continue to grow more powerful with each passing year. The few that are out there, like DRAM and Motorola’s 68000 processor, are chip-based. Add to that list the x86 architecture, which stands alone in the broader computer market now that […]

Worldwide sales of semiconductors in August rose five percent over July, to $19.1 billion, according to a Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) report. It’s reason for optimism, but not exactly reason to celebrate just yet, as that $19.1 billion is also 16.1 percent below August 2008’s $22.7 billion in sales. Still, it points to positive signs […]

nVidia continues to accumulate design wins for Tegra, its combined GPU/ARM processor for the handheld device market, with more than 70 design wins signed and preparing to delivery product. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang made the announcement yesterday during a post-keynote press conference at the GPU Technology Conference, declaring that we can expect a very big Tegra […]

Jen-Hsun Huang shows off “Fermi” at today’s GPU Technology Conference. Source: nVidia SAN JOSE, Calif. — nVidia kicked off its GPU Technology Conference today with the formal introduction of its next generation in graphics architecture, codenamed “Fermi,” that CEO Jen-Hsun Huang called “the soul of a supercomputer in the body of a GPU.” The first […]

Apple seems to have confirmed recent speculation there would be new Macs by informing its direct sales channels that several of its desktop offerings have entered a “period of constraint,” meaning they are in short supply, and there’s only one good reason for that. Unless Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has managed its inventory very poorly, which […]

The flood of new notebooks due to crest in retail outlets on October 22, the day Windows 7 launches, got just a little bigger today with the announcement of two new affordable, ultra-thin notebooks from Toshiba. Both laptops are part of a new line, the T100 series. They are modest in screen size – just […]

The recession of 2000-2002 was dominated by all of the mass-extinction of over hyped dot-com firms, but there was a secondary problem during that time period as well: excessive inventory. Many companies had frozen all investments in the late 1990s in preparation for Y2K . When 2000 came around and their systems didn’t implode, they […]

HP today introduced a series of new products aimed at the SMB market, not as whittled-down enterprise products with a few key features hacked off but with the features needed to grow while being cost- and energy-conscious. The new offerings are an expansion of the HP Total Care portfolio, which helps small and midsized businesses […]