Andy Patrizio

Sun Microsystems kicks of what will be its last JavaOne conference as an independent company on Tuesday. A prelude show aimed at open source developers, called CommunityOne, starts Monday. Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) is in the process of being acquired by Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) for $5.6 billion net ($7.4 billion payout minus Sun’s $2.2 billion piggy […]

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) on Thursday reported revenue in line with expectations, but net income took an even bigger hit than expected despite the company’s newfound emphasis on operating efficiency. For its first fiscal quarter, ended May 1, earnings sank to $290 million, or 15 cents per share, a 61 percent drop from $784 million, or […]

The figures from HP’s earnings last week were ominous. Take away EDS and the rest of its sizable services business, and HP might very well have been thrown for a loss. The Enterprise Storage and Servers group fell 28 percent, the PC group was flat but earnings fell 19 percent and the Imaging and Printing […]

It’s a very brave statement to claim 100-percent uptime. No one wants to do it, if only for the fear of being left open to ridicule from competitors, or worse — liability. But Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) today made such a claim with the release of its Hitachi High Availability Manager. The company, a small […]

Microsoft’s timing for Release Candidate 1 of Windows 7 was perfect. I had been living with Build 7000 on my home PC since January and its behavior had been increasingly wonky. It was almost like the build was breaking down and degrading. Normally, an OS reinstall is a major pain. There’s so many apps to […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Intel today announced the latest high-end part, the Nehalem-EX processor, an eight-core beast first announced late last year with enterprise-scale features that rival Intel’s Itanium processor. Currently, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has the six-core Xeon 7400, codenamed “Dunnington,” for its high-end servers and the four-core Xeon 5500 Nehalem-EP processor. While the 5500 […]

Borland Software, which earlier this month announced it was being acquired by Micro Focus, announced today the release of Borland TeamDefine, a simulation tool for business analysts to create working models of basic software designs. The problem for many development projects, as David Wilby, senior vice president of products noted, is that many projects start […]

The plus side to newspapers on the Web: a local story gets worldwide attention. So it was with this piece, an AP story, that ran in the Charlotte Observer. It had to do with a tax incentive being offered to Apple in return for building a massive datacenter. Needless to say, it got my attention […]

Intel has pushed back the launch of the “Tukwila” generation of Itanium processors until the first quarter of 2010, insisting it’s not because of bugs but what it calls “an opportunity to further enhance application scalability.” Intel claims that it is tracking to twice the performance of its current Itanium, known by the codename Montvale, […]

IBM has introduced new solid state drives (SSDs) for its enterprise servers that add something long-missing to SSDs: intelligence. New management software can improve performance up to eight-fold and reduce, IBM said, while reducing the amount of storage needed by 80 percent and power consumption by 90 percent. Up to now, the assumption with SSDs […]

Gateway, a division of Acer, and Canadian services provider Level Platforms on Thursday announced a multi-year partnership to offer managed services to the small- and mid-sized business market across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). This is Acer’s first real effort at taking on the business computing market. Through its own brand as well […]