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Microchips: Itanium Back on the Menu at Oracle
After losing a bitter lawsuit with Hewlett Packard, Oracle says it will comply with a court order and start supporting HP's Itanium computers.
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Networks: Mystery Google Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa
The photos appeared on the web in late February. Taken with a smartphone, they were a bit washed out and a little blurry in places, but you could easily make out the name on the back of the mystery...
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Servers: Intel Confirms Decline of Server Giants HP, Dell, and IBM
In 2008, says Intel bigwig Diane Bryant, HP, Dell, and IBM accounted for 75 percent of the revenue Intel raked in from the sale of processors designed for the big, beefy computer servers that drive the...
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Data Centers: ‘Trailer Park Computing’ Busts Out of Google and Into Mainstream
Taking a page from the likes of Google and Microsoft, a wide-range of companies are now selling data centers stuffed into shipping containers.
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Tech Law: Meet the Last Man Standing in the HP Spying Scandal
The final chapter in the pretexting scandal that rocked Hewlett-Packard, once one of Silicon Valley's most esteemed companies, is drawing to a close.
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Servers: Facebook Calls for Servers You Can Compost Like Coffee Grounds
We now have biodegradable diapers, trash bags, and dishwasher detergent, not to mention cups, plates, utensils, pens, and printer paper you can return to Mother Nature with a clear conscience. But...
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Software: Shocker! Larry Ellison Sees Eye-to-Eye With HP
Hell must have frozen over: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is actually in agreement with HP.
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Software: The HP Way, and How It Completely Screwed HP
These days Hewlett Packard can't do anything right. But, in particular, it really can't do software. One year after paying $11 billion for Big Data search outfit Autonomy, HP is taking a $8.8 billion...
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Tech Law: HP Pretexting Scandal Still Pays Dividends for California
A final chapter in HP's pretexting scandal is set to end today as the last person facing criminal charges in the case -- private investigator Bryan Wagner -- is flying in from his Evergreen, Colorado...
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Data Centers: Why HP, Dell and IBM Are on the Wrong Side of Internet History
Whereas businesses once purchased servers from these big three to store and transport their digital goods, they’re now choosing to make their own servers and data centers. The server industry is being...
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Data Centers: Why Open Source Hardware Is No Oxymoron
"It's time to stop treating data center design like Fight Club," said Jonathan Heiliger, "and demystify the way these things are built." It was April 2011, and Heiliger -- the man who oversaw all the...
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Cloud | Google Chromebooks Rain on School Children, Invade HP
Last December, Acer and Asus both announced that they would cease production of "netbooks." Many observers blamed the rise of the iPad and other tablets for the public's waning interest in these...
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Networks | You Can’t Have Google’s Pluto Switch, But You Can Have This
When photos of Google's mystery "Pluto Switch" appeared on the web early last year, it seemed like something from another world -- and not just because Google called it the Pluto Switch. But as alien...
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Cloud | Welcome to the Mind-Bending World of Cloud-on-Cloud Computing
John Engates is the chief technology officer at Rackspace, and even he had trouble wrapping his mind around the way the company runs its most important of technologies. Rackspace, you see, runs its...
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Servers | HP Launches Cellphone Chips on Server ‘Moonshot’
In the continuing crusade to rebuild computer servers using ultra-low-power chips not unlike the one in your cellphone, HP has unveiled its first "Project Moonshot" server, a machine packed with dozens...
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Cloud | Why Open Source Software Is Like Burning Man (Only Better)
Monty Taylor is wearing blue jeans, a corduroy jacket, a pair of pink-rimmed sunglasses, and a T-shirt that says "What the F**K Is OpenStack?"
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Data Centers | The Real Reason ARM Will Menace Intel in the Data Center
A team of researchers associated with HP, chipmaker ARM, and Facebook have proposed a new breed of server processor specifically designed to provide quick and efficient access to information on the...
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The Man Who Introduced Microsoft to Open Source Leaves For HP
Hewlett-Packard has hired the man who introduced Microsoft to the notion of open source. His job? To transform HP into a serious cloud player.
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HP Hides Monster 3-D Printer in Its Basement
HP is often derided as the king of computer printers that somehow missed the recent revolution known as 3-D printing. But if you venture into the basement of the company's famous Palo Alto research...
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