Andy Patrizio

Finally, Greg Donovan can say he’s a Dell reseller. The president and CEO of Alpheon, a managed services provider in Morrisville, NC, has been an unofficial Dell reseller through its “super secret direct program,” as he called it, Solution Provider Direct. Now, however, Dell has made it official with the launch of PartnerDirect, a global […]

Mass market CPUs have reached the four-core stage, and there are 64-core and 80-core processors in labs right now, but for IBM, that’s still not enough. Big Blue has designs on a processor with a whopping 1,000 (or more) cores. But don’t get any purchase orders ready; this is a long-term effort that might take […]

The TJX security breach is threatening to rank as one of the most expensive lessons in corporate data security policies. With the retailer facing anywhere from $500 million to nearly $1 billion in expenses, not to mention a black eye with the public over how their credit card data is secured, this experience should serve […]

BigFix on Tuesday announced the availability of BigFix Discovery 7, the latest version of its systems management and discovery software that forms the basis for all of its support products. Discovery is an end-point technology used to discover assets and also push out and install updates to the end-point system regardless of hardware platform or […]

Microsoft on Monday issued a warning concerning a vulnerability in how Windows resolves hostnames, and is offering steps for systems administrators to work around the problem until a fix is issued. The issue affects hostnames that do not include a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). A fully qualified domain name is a domain name that […]

The acronym “DLP” is most commonly used to describe a form of video projection called Digital Light Processing. Well, add the term “data loss prevention” to the DLP lexicon, because you will be hearing it a lot more in 2008 and beyond. With so many data breach/loss incidents coming by accident rather than malice, one […]

A study released Wednesday shows the cost of a data breach is becoming increasingly expensive for firms—not so much because of the technological steps needed to fix the problem—but because the increasingly savvy public bails on the victim of the breach and takes their business with them. The study was conducted by privacy and information […]

Worldwide server shipments rose by 8.7 percent on a unit basis and 2.6 percent on a dollar basis for the third quarter of 2007 over the same quarter last year, according to the latest research from Gartner. Worldwide server revenue totaled $13.4 billion for the quarter, with just over 2.2 million units shipped. If the […]

The .NET and Java worlds have long had a gulf between them that’s been difficult to bridge. Mainsoft has partnered with IBM to help shrink that divide a little by offering Mainsoft’s bridging software with IBM’s enterprise Java server. Under the terms of the agreement, IBM will sell Mainsoft’s.NET Extensions for WebSphere Portal, which consists […]

AMD Monday formally introduced Spider, a platform with all of the latest CPU, graphics processor and chipset technologies in one high performance package. The heart of the platform is Phenom, the quad core desktop processor built on the same technology as the Quad Core Opteron, also known as Barcelona, while graphics is driven by its […]