Andy Patrizio

Rackable Systems, the high-density system designer for datacenters and Internet service providers, announced five new servers, ranging from 2U units all the way up to a 9U unit that goes in its shipping container-sized mobile datacenter. The new designs deliver up to twice the density of existing Rackable Systems (NASDAQ: RACK) servers in the same […]

Reorganizations are usually done when a division, unit or company is performing poorly or not executing properly. They tend to be quite disruptive, complete with layoffs. So why in the world would a company reorganize one of its most successful divisions? In the case of HP, it has begun a restructuring of its Imaging and […]

The 31st edition of the TOP500 list of supercomputers was released today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, and IBM, AMD and Intel have a lot of bragging rights. The list, issued twice a year since 1993, features some big shifts and interesting trends in supercomputing. The biggest news is that Blue Gene/L, […]

nVidia introduced an update to its Tesla line of processors that doubles the performance over the prior release. Tesla is derived from nVidia’s high-performance graphics video cards and serves as a massive math co-processor to augment a standard x86 CPU. While Tesla systems use a PC’s x86 processor to boot the computer and load the […]

What better place to build a supercomputer than northern Sweden? Just leave the datacenter’s windows open and Mother Nature can handle the cooling. IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced at the Top 500 supercomputer conference that it and Umeå University, almost 500 miles north of Stockholm, have installed the most powerful Windows-based computer in Europe, called […]

Dear Jerry Yang, You probably don’t remember me, since it’s been 13 years. Let me refresh your memory. It was the spring 1995 Internet World conference (ironically, run by my current employer) in the San Jose Convention Center. The middle of the floor was dominated by the likes of CompuServe and AOL and Netcom. Off […]

Salesforce.com today introduced the summer upgrade to its on-demand CRM software, called Salesforce Summer ’08, featuring enhancements on both the client and server-sides of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. Traditionally, Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) upgrades its software around three times per year. With the upgrade, all 43,000 Salesforce customers have immediate access to the new platform, since […]

It was my vacation last week, but the first thing I did on Monday morning was search for live feeds of the Apple World Wide Developer Conference. After all, I’d heard the rumors of a $199 price tag for the iPhone for weeks in advance. While our intrepid west coast bureau chief Dave Needle was […]

No matter how you slice it, monthly, quarterly or yearly, chip sales are still growing despite economic uncertainty in the U.S. Reports from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), IDC and Gartner all show that sales are holding, despite continued price attrition, thanks to overseas markets. The SIA reported that worldwide sales of semiconductors in April […]

McAfee today introduced a new utility as part of its ePolicy Orchestrator that will make it easier to provide an audit trail when something inevitably goes wrong. The security firm also unveiled a new type of USB drive designed to prevent data loss. Separately, the company issued a listing of the most dangerous top level […]

AMD is kicking off the Computex show with the announcement of Puma, its first platform for the mobile computing market designed to counter Intel’s successful Centrino platform. Puma combines a new AMD Turion X2 dual-core mobile processor with ATI Radeon HD 3000 graphics and an ATI chipset. This new platform already has a number of […]

AMD Opteron 1000 Source: AMD AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the Quad-Core Opteron 1000 Series, a.k.a. Budapest. This processor is meant for single-socket servers or high-performance desktop workstations and fills out the low end of the Quad-Core Opteron line. Somewhat overlooked but none the less important to AMD’s product strategy, the 1000 Series goes into […]