Buying a supercomputer costs millions of dollars, then thousands more each year to maintain it. That's not to mention the hefty electric bill to keep the massive system running.
The 3PAR bidding war continued into its third week, as both Dell and HP upped their offers for the high-end storage company.
Hewlett-Packard and Dell's intense bidding war for the little-known 3PAR is starting to look a little nuts.
Are you confused by the myriad changes Facebook keeps making to its privacy settings?
Stormy weather could be on the horizon for cloud computing as security experts warn not enough is being done to make sure one of the hottest IT trends is safe.
As 2009 draws to a close, the Web's attention turns to the year ahead. What can we expect of the online realm in 2010?
FSB: Control the cloudupdated: Wed Nov 18 2009 10:57:00
For years the online-software company HotSchedules had its head in the clouds.
Have you ever wondered what happens when you save a photo to "the cloud" of the Internet? CNN.com explains how it all works.
One day, while uploading yet another text file to the Google Docs Web site, I started to wonder: When I save this file online, where does it actually go?
When markets waver, growth investing is a high-risk, high-volatility proposition. But when they roar back to life, the momentum is rocket fuel for stocks that out-earn their peers.
The Obama administration has unveiled a government "app store" designed to push the federal bureaucracy into the era of cloud computing.
The recent hacking of a Twitter employee's personal e-mail account is raising questions about the security of storing personal information and business data on the Internet.
Tech earnings season kicks off this week, with quarterly reports from industry giants Intel, Google and IBM, and investors will be hungering for signs that a turnaround is imminent.
Ben Horowitz was toiling as an unheralded product strategist at Netscape Communications when he opened a scathing e-mail from his boss, Marc Andreessen. It was the winter of 1996; Netscape's public offering, several months earlier, had ignited the dotcom craze, and co-founder Andreessen had just appeared on Time's cover, sitting on a throne, feet bare -- the very portrait of a cocky 24-year-old tech wunderkind.
Google is jumping into Microsoft Windows territory -- and threatening to change the way personal computers work -- with its own version of a computer operating system.
By almost all measures the new Palm Pre handset, released June 6, is a hit: The device is getting raves from technology reviewers, and officials at Sprint Nextel, the only phone network now offering the Pre, have said opening weekend sales outpaced their expectations.
Thinking of floating your small business on the software-as-a-service cloud? Maybe it's time to step back down to Earth.
It used to be that only a few CEOs were known for their obsessive love of cost-cutting -- guys like Mark Hurd at Hewlett-Packard and Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan Chase. But these days, with revenues everywhere grinding to a halt, everyone's getting into the act. Not surprisingly, a new breed of enterprise software has emerged to help the bean counters.
The tech world loves a good prank. Today is the day when the world's propeller heads show us what they've cooked up in their secret April Fool's labs and it turns out that the funniest "gotchas" circulating online happen to come from companies that typically don't have much of a sense of humor at all.
Fortune: HD for everyoneupdated: Tue Mar 31 2009 09:59:00
Whether it's watching Jim Cramer and Jon Stewart trade blows on Hulu, or catching up on the latest from the Disruptors series (shameless plug, I know) more and more video is getting delivered via the Internet.
If you're graduating from school or university this year you might currently be cursing your rotten luck. The economy is weak, jobs are scarce and few companies are willing to take a chance on someone unproven.
A decade ago Marc Benioff declared that software was dead. In 1999, while on leave from his job at Oracle, he convened a group of developers in his downtown San Francisco apartment building to build Salesforce.com. Soon thereafter he paid the quirky rockers the B-52's $250,000 to perform at a bash where he distributed buttons with the word "software" crossed out, Ghostbusters-style. And that was all before he had signed up a single customer.
With all the buzz about software served up over the Internet, you'd think old-guard enterprise software makers like Oracle and SAP would be panicking over the future of their businesses. You'd be wrong.
For years, the computers at TC3 Health were perfectly happy. The company, based in Costa Mesa, Calif., helps health insurance providers avoid overpayments by flagging billing errors, duplicate payments and identity fraud. Its custom-built software, dubbed TC3 Funnel, running on the company's four servers, could swiftly sift through thousands of health-care claims every day.
Significantly increasing the utility and competitiveness of its Web-based e-mail service, Google is enabling an experimental ability to read, write, and search Gmail messages even while not connected to the network.
You can't really blame technology executives and pundits for not wanting to go too far out on a limb in making prognostications and predictions about 2009.
Internet bellwether Google agreed to purchase Postini, a privately held provider of Web communications security, for $625 million in cash, the company announced Monday.
Anyone with a computer can now contribute to tackling some of the world's biggest humanitarian problems simply by leaving their machine logged on when not in use.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has survived yet another a vote of confidence in his government, successfully gambling on a bid to bring his bickering coalition into line.
FSB: A New Power Gridupdated: Sun Feb 01 2004 00:01:00
Is your computer underachieving? Probably. The average PC uses just 10% of its potential computing power. But that may change, thanks to grid computing, in which the unused power of many computers ...
If someone told you that the greatest competitive weapon available to businesses today was sitting unused and generally undiscovered in every department of every company, you'd suspect it was an ex...
Marc Andreessen is scribbling so furiously that he's about to tear through the paper into the table below. He whips off a few oblong shapes. "Somewhere in here is where we are now," Andreessen says...
Sitting in the movie seat right next to Arnold Schwarzenegger at the San Francisco premiere of Terminator 3 in June, Marc Benioff looks extremely pleased with himself. ¶ The lights have dimmed, the...
In October, on the day after the board anointed him chairman, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano met with customers, reporters, and analysts to lay out a vision of a new era he calls on-demand computing. Afterw...
Who has time to read? It's hard to keep up, especially when you're also trying to run a business. That's where this column comes in. In each issue of FSB, I'll serve as your reading scout, scouring...
Fortune: Cosmonautupdated: Mon Oct 09 2000 00:01:00
What if you could get all the computers on the Net to work together? That's the idea driving Adam Beberg, a visionary in "distributed computing," which links computers online to process tasks coope...
I'm on my way, I'm making it I've got to make it show, yeah So much larger than life I'm going to watch it growing. --Peter Gabriel
Developers who operate in earthquake country or tornado zones must fortify their structures to withstand extra stress. Too bad homebuilders aren't required to strengthen their financial foundations...
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