Andy Patrizio

So, 10 gigabit Ethernet too slow for you? How about 160 gigabits? That’s the latest breakthrough from IBM (Quote) researchers, who have come up with an optical networking chip measuring 3mm by 5mm but has 16 times the throughput of today’s networking chips. Now before you think this will mean more MP3s and dirty videos, think […]

DC is revising down estimates for server dollar and unit sales in the coming years, owing to the increasing popularity of virtualization (define) and more powerful servers where one does the job previously done by many. IDC already reported that unit sales have slid, while dollar sales are growing, an indication that fewer but more powerful […]

Seagate on Monday announced a partnership with ASI Computer Technologies to deliver laptops with encrypted hard drives. The advantage of these drives is if the notebook is lost or stolen, the data on the drive is inaccessible. ASI provides the laptop equivalent of a “white box,” or an unbranded PC to value added resellers (VARs) […]

Draft 2.0 of the 802.11n spec sailed through the 802.11 Working Group, setting the stage for final approval some time in 2009. The IEEE 802.11 Working Group sent out a copy of Draft 2 two months ago, with a deadline of last Friday for submitting up or down votes. The final vote was 83.4 percent, […]

Netuitive has released Netuitive SI for VMware, a piece of management software aimed at balancing resource performance across virtual machines running on a single server. The software comes at an important time in the evolution of virtualization software; while several products that enable multiple pieces of software to run on one physical machine exist, there […]

Malware (define) authors in Russia are now offering service contracts with their spyware. Yes you read right: You can now get a service contract to provide upgrades for spyware, Trojans, rootkits and key loggers, just like you get with your computers, Oracle databases and CRM software. You have to marvel at the sheer brass of it […]

The server market continues to grow at a healthy rate, with blade servers and x86 showing the greatest strength while RISC continues its decline, according to the 2006 worldwide server report just released from Gartner. Worldwide server shipments totaled 8.2 million units in 2006, an 8.9 percent increase from the 7.5 million shipped in 2005. […]

IBM introduced its newest server consolidation effort, a trio of p Series servers with the 64-bit POWER5 processor running Linux or its own AIX Unix operating system. The servers are aimed at companies suffering from server sprawl and offer a variety of virtualization functions that will help consolidate hardware. In addition to the new hardware, […]

Intel Monday showed off its latest science project, a teraflop processor with 80 cores that, while it will never be productized, will help the company in its future CPU projects. The CPU was intended to be a research project into how to develop an effective and efficient multicore processor, since Intel sees cores, not clock […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hidden away in the southern section of this city, surrounded by little more than farm fields, 2,200 researchers are building technology ideas into reality at the largest of IBM’s (Quote) seven West coast labs. During a tour yesterday, IBM Research demonstrated some of those technologies under development, and provided a peek at […]