Andy Patrizio

After 12 years of painful decline and numerous reinventions, Silicon Graphics (SGI) — the one-time Unix giant that became a Hollywood star of its own when its computers brought the dinosaurs of “Jurassic Park” to life — sold itself to Rackable Systems today for about the equivalent of Steven Spielberg’s lunch money. Rackable (NASDAQ: RACK) […]

With momentum growing behind cloud computing as an alternative to traditional enterprise software, HP’s looking to take steps to make sure it’s got a dominant place in the cloud as well as the datacenter. The company on Tuesday announced HP Cloud Assure, a project to help companies convert Web applications to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, […]

The posting of the Open Cloud Manifesto on Monday was almost anti-climactic considering the brouhaha that erupted in the days before its release. While IBM, which is leading this effort, has assembled an impressive list of partners, equally notable is who’s sitting it out. Among others, IBM (NYSE: IBM) has lined up Cisco, EMC & […]

Western Digital today is taking its first steps into the solid-state drive (SSD) market, announcing that it’s acquired SiliconSystems, a maker of SSDs for embedded and specialty markets, for $65 million in cash. SiliconSystems manufacturers SSD drives under the SiliconDrive brand name, with SATA, EIDE, PC Card, USB and CF interfaces in 2.5-inch, 1.8-inch, CF […]

Security researchers are sounding the alarm about what they say is a serious and long-known flaw in x86 processors that could prove embarrassing not just for its existence — but for the lack of action taken to address it so far. Joanna Rutkowska and Rafal Wojtczuk today published a research paper describing a proof-of-concept rootkit […]

Wednesday’s report in the Wall Street Journal that IBM was in talks to purchase Sun Microsystems livened up what had otherwise threatened to be a dull day. Once the initial shock wore off, however, industry watchers had to weigh the obvious questions regarding the potential of such a merger. The news propelled Sun’s stock up […]

Rackable Systems today announced a new type of cabinet that embraces warmth instead of cooling, turning the issue of power management on its ear. Instead of the obsession with turning its computer cabinets into a refrigerator, Rackable decided to let things warm up a bit. Rackable’s (NASDAQ: RACK) CloudRack C2 dispenses with two features long […]

Cisco’s Unified Computing System announcement may have been as vaporous as the raining San Francisco weather, but further details on the upcoming blade systems will be disclosed on March 30, InternetNews.com has learned. Yesterday’s announcement was so light on details that after an hour of speeches, the first question from the audience essentially was to […]

Cisco’s big Unified Computing System (UCS) announcement Monday was long on buzz words and promises. In the space of 90 minutes, Cisco chief John Chambers and an impressive lineup of CEOs from around the industry waxed eloquently over a news announcement that lacked key details like pricing and exact hardware specs. Most of what InternetNews.com […]

As if these two companies needed another reason to fight… Intel on Monday gave AMD 60 days to address concerns surrounding AMD’s joint venture chip foundry or it could, in a worst case scenario, yank its 2001 cross-licensing patent, effectively denying AMD the ability to sell x86-based processors. That seems unlikely, if only for the […]

Dell Studio One 19 Source: Dell Desktop PC sales may have sputtered, but don’t tell that to Dell. The company has introduced an all-in-one PC called Studio One 19, although Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) will be the first to say it’s really in a different category than standard tower PCs and desktops. The Studio One 19 […]

HP today announced an entry level server in its Integrity NonStop line, the high-availability servers descended from the Tandem line of servers. The new NS2000 is aimed at both emerging markets, looking for always-up performance and at existing Tandem customers with older hardware. The NS2000 server family is targeted at specific markets such as healthcare, […]