Andy Patrizio

IBM must be rubbing its hands in glee. Oracle’s proposed $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems may have hit yet another snag, giving Big Blue still more time to continue picking apart Sun’s once-unswervingly loyal customer base. The latest bump in the road comes from the European Commission (EC), which currently has one more day […]

Server sales initially held up for about a quarter amid the economic collapse of late 2008, but now the economy is catching up with big iron — and then some, as sales fell even further and faster than desktops. Both IDC and Gartner have released reports detailing the collapse of the worldwide server market, and […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The Butch and Sundance of tech ride again, only this time they’ve come to San Francisco, not Bolivia. Microsoft and Intel came to town to discuss their partnership, which seemed a little weak a few years back, in the development of Windows 7. It would be a bit of an understatement to […]

At the open of VMworld 2009 today, HP announced new product, management and service solutions designed to bring virtualization to the desktop by hosting as many as 800 virtual desktops on its c7000 BladeSystems blade servers The HP Virtual Desktop Reference Architecture for VMware allows all of the compute and management work to be done […]

Netbooks are beginning to really eat away at the notebook market and are showing their greatest strength outside the U.S., according to a new report by market researcher DisplaySearch, a subsidiary of NPD Group. In its new Quarterly Notebook PC Shipment and Forecast Report, DisplaySearch found netbook sales had surged to 38 million units during […]

As part of the opening of VMworld 2009, IBM today unveiled what it calls the industry’s first public desktop cloud service, which eliminates the need for client installations and lets users access their desktop from anywhere via a browser. There have been numerous attempts in the past to create thin clients by hosting the apps […]

EMC co-founder Richard Egan passed away on Friday amid reports he was suffering from a myriad of health problems. Egan, 73, had been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year and also reportedly dealing with emphysema, diabetes and high blood pressure. Egan, the “E” in EMC Corp., co-founded EMC with Roger Marino in 30 years […]

AMD on Monday filled out its line of six-core Opteron processors with the EE line, the lowest-power and subsequently slowest of its server processors aimed at power-sensitive customers. All told, AMD (NYSE: AMD) has four lines of six-core Opterons in its “Istanbul” family, broken down by clock speed and power draw. At the top end […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel came to town today to discuss its involvement in cloud computing developments, but even before the discussion began, the company had set the tone for the day with welcomed financial news. Thanks to stronger-than-expected demand for microprocessors and chipsets, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) said it now expects third-quarter revenue to reach $9 […]

IBM today announced an upgrade to its iDataPlex rack mounted server as well as a new switching fabric for its BladeCenter chassis, both with virtualization in mind. The announcements come just ahead of the VMWorld conference in San Francisco next week. The iDataPlex is a dense, 2U x86 server with two Xeon processors, 5TB of […]

Thanks to a focus on controlling expenses and the decline in PC buying beginning to level off, Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) today reported quarterly profits that just beat Wall Street expectations. It managed to top profit expectations thanks to its continued focus on corporate efficiency, similar to what IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and other […]

It’s been known for years that the Wired Equivalent Privacy or WEP protocol is easily broken, and that to be secure, wireless networks should use the more powerful protocol called Wi-Fi Protected Access, or WPA. Now security experts say they’ve proven that WPA can be breached just as easily. A pair of researchers in Japan […]