Andy Patrizio

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The datacenter of the future may be at least partially virtualized, but the consolidation of hardware does not mean less work. On the contrary, more virtual servers still means more servers to maintain, increasing the burden on IT, not decreasing it. That was the warning from a session here at the […]

With Windows 7 in the hands of millions of individuals around the world, the consumer pushhas been the focus of attention. But Windows is as important to businesses and organizations as it is to the home gamer. A lot of corporations have aging Windows XP machines that will need to be retired soon, perhaps not […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Cloud services will be what the electrical grid was a century ago: the basis for a whole new set of services, markets and possibilities that can change the way we live and operate, but also threaten the dominant computing hierarchy. That was the general theme of the closing keynote speech by […]

Vic GundotraSource: Google Google may have its own skin in the mobile software game — after all, it’s the prime mover behind the Android mobile operating system. But when it comes down to it, the search giant doesn’t really care which handset or operating system comes to dominate the market. Instead, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) thinks it’s […]

Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo kicked up quite a stir with a comment on Finnish television that said the company is considering entering the notebook or netbook market. During an interview with Finnish broadcaster YLE, Kallasvuo responded to a question about whether Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is considering entering the notebook or netbook market. He replied that […]

No two recessions are the same, and the shakedown hitting the U.S., indeed the global economy, is very different from the one experienced in 2000-2002. That was a powerful combination of the Silicon Valley getting hit directly from the dot-bomb implosion and the overall U.S. economy shattered by the events on September 11, 2001. This […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Like any new market sector taking shape, cloud computing has a large number of players jockeying for position. IBM, Microsoft, VMware, Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), as well as smaller players, are pushing for control in the emerging sector; Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) plans to be there with its own products […]

Earnings season for the past month has been more painful than a root canal with no Novocain. On earnings calls, one hardware supplier after another recounted sales going off a cliff and were reluctant to give any forward guidance because they didn’t know when things would improve. The problem was these sales plunges did not […]

Monday is a national holiday in the U.S., but it will be a busy day in Barcelona, Spain, which is hosting GSMA Mobile World Congress — one of the largest mobile phone trade conferences. More than 1,300 firms will be represented at the show, and three chipmakers — Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), ARM and nVidia (NASDAQ: […]

Did Google kill multitouch in the Android phone at Apple’s request? That’s the claim by one Web site which sites an unnamed Android team member, but neither company will discuss the matter. Multitouch features, such as zooming in and out of a map or Web page by using two fingers, is a highlight of Apple’s […]