Andy Patrizio

IBM this week introduced the first major overhaul to its System z mainframe line in three years. This latest big iron from IBM could be a welcome development for the company, which has seen itsmainframe business struggle for several months. For the last two quarters, both Gartner and IDC have noted that IBM’s System z […]

Less than one year after its first foray into Xeon-based embedded chips, Intel has refreshed the line with newer processors and a new chipset that drastically improve performance and cut some of the power draw. As part of the upgrade, Intel is promising licensees a seven-year life cycle support program, considerably longer than the lifespan […]

Someone at Sun Microsystems is going to get spanked, and Intel is holding the paddle. A PDF document from Sun’s Austrian offices found its way onto the external Sun network and was immediately grabbed by visitors. Sun removed the offending file but once something gets on the Internet it’s impossible to contain. The document outlines […]

A Silicon Valley startup says it can deliver a 90 percent reduction in the cost of a decked out server by a breakthrough in memory technology. MetaRAM, founded by Fred Weber, a former chief technology officer at AMD, is going public today with its MetaSDRAM. The technology doubles the memory on a memory stick by […]

As if Windows Vista hasn’t suffered enough embarrassment over technical problems, Microsoft today was forced to pull one of the three requisite update files to install Service Pack 1 (SP1), thus delaying the availability of the service pack itself. There had been a growing number of reports on the Internet, including on Microsoft’s TechNet site, […]

Firewall vendor SonicWALL today introduced the SonicWALL Network Security Appliance Series (NSA), a trio of multifunction firewalls aimed at the mid-enterprise. The NSA Series are multi-core platforms that work with a reassembly-free deep packet inspection engine. Together, they examine all traffic coming in for real time inspection without slowing down network traffic. “UTM brings multiple […]

Mac users might be feeling increasingly nervous, at least according to a survey from corporate security vendor Sophos. In a poll of 350 Mac users, 93 percent believed malware writers would increasingly target the Mac in the future. A few malware attempts have occurred, but more often someone finds an exploit and creates a proof […]

After what we at InternetNews.com have been through in the last few days, we can sympathize with hiccups like Dell faced recently. A notice on the site sent led to misleading reports that Dell had discontinued selling consumer AMD systems. People searching for AMD products on Dell.com were given the message “Shop for Dell computers […]

For nearly three years, a group of OS/2 supporters has been asking IBM to offer up the source to the long-abandoned operating system. For three years, IBM has said no. Is it finally time to relegate the petition to the same retirement patch as OS/2 itself? The latest rejection from IBM’s legal department came just […]

Sun Microsystems introduced the Blackbox, a portable datacenter in a 20-foot shipping container, amid some hullabaloo in late 2006 and then… nothing. Things got rather quiet, aside from a promotional tour in 2007. But it seems the datacenter-to-go is starting to gain traction. There were individual wins, like the datacenter in Japan that will use […]