Andy Patrizio

Sun Microsystems today announced the first servers to utilize its new UltraSPARC T2 processor, also known as Niagara 2. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 servers will be the first rack mount systems to use the T2 processor, which features eight cores and supports eight threads per core. And the 5120 is a 1U unit with […]

The computer vendor wooing of small to mid-size business (SMB) customers continued today, with IBM’s announcement of new software designed to provide those growing companies with the kinds of tools normally only available to enterprises. IBM said it plans to avoid the mistakes of other products aimed at the SMB market, which have fallen short […]

IBM is ready to cross swords with HP over blades. The company is taking on HP’s just-released c3000 server, a.k.a. “Shorty,” by offering an upgrade to its BladeCenter system to make it more office-friendly. The BladeCenter S, launched in July, was aimed at the small and mid-sized business (SMB) market at launch, but the Office […]

A decade ago, Intel was shipping the Pentium II processor and Linux was a fringe operating system used by a few Internet fanatics. No one at the time would ever have thought the two in combination would be a match for Sun’s SPARC/Solaris combination, HP’s PA-RISC/HP-UX, IBM’s POWER/AIX or SGI’s MIPS/IRIX. Funny what a decade […]

Adobe Systems is the latest entrant to the increasingly popular field of software-as-a-service (define) and online applications by virtue of its purchase of a startup firm that’s been developing an online word processor that’s coincidentally built on Adobe technology. The company on Monday announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virtual Ubiquity, developer […]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a technology patent case that has the potential to throw the entire technology supply chain into upheaval — or prompt closer adherence to technology licensing terms. Those disparate outcomes are both possible from a case involving two parties that aren’t even U.S. companies. In 2000, LG […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Nine months after first announcing their plans to get together, the alliance between Sun and Intel gave birth to a pair of bouncing baby servers Tuesday: two Sun Fire quad-core 1U and 2U low-profile servers geared for virtualization environments. The X4150 is a two-socket, 1U system with Intel’s Xeon 5300 processors. […]

There has been considerably emphasis on the subject of power efficiency and microprocessors, mostly because Intel and AMD have been beating the drum of lower power consumption louder than Keith Moon in his prime. However, there is an overlooked element inside that refrigerator-sized humming black plastic and metal box that is sucking up considerable amounts […]

CollabNet today announced the release of CollabNet Enterprise Edition 5.0 (CEE), a significant update to its application lifecycle management (ALM) software that helps codify and enforce best practices in a distributed development scenario. As the company’s name indicates, CollabNet is focused on development teams that are spread out over a distributed area. This would seem […]

The CPU Formerly Known As Barcelona is now officially the Quad-Core AMD Opteron, with the part numbers 13xx, 23xx and 83xx in AMD’s numbering system. Servers from Dell, IBM and HP are expected to start shipping to customers in the fourth quarter of this year. Opteron will get its grand unveiling tonight at filmmaker George […]