Author Archives: Patrick Thibodeau

While President Barack Obama met Wednesday with the CEOs of some of America’s largest companies to discuss ideas for expanding the economy and creating jobs, a Chinese outsourcing firm was raising cash to help it expand in the U.S. market. Continue reading →

China has unveiled a sleek, ultramodern-appearing design for its new supercomputing center that may be seen as reflecting the country’s broader supercomputing ambitions. Continue reading →

In an era of technology consolidation, the questions raised by Novell’s sale to Attachmate for $2.2 billion ought to be a familiar: Users can only wonder what may happen to Novell’s deep and extensive enterprise product lines. Continue reading →

Hewlett-Packard will pay $16.25 million to settle a case that resulted in jail time for a school district’s former chief technology officer and computer reseller of HP equipment, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday. Continue reading →

As China works to realize its ambitions in high-tech, the nation has been flexing its muscle on two fronts this month in ways that are getting attention from the U.S. government and industry. Continue reading →

NASA CTO Chris Kemp said he hopes that increased use of cloud computing can let NASA concentrate on building space networks rather than internal IT systems. Continue reading →

Initial reactions to HP’s appointment of Leo Apotheker as its new CEO have been double-takes. But what’s clear from the move is that Oracle is in its sights. Continue reading →

China and other nations are beginning to challenge U.S. supercomputing leadership, something that has implications for every aspect of U.S. leadership in science and product development, say experts. Continue reading →

Microsoft today unveiled a new version of its Windows HPC Server that aims to bring high performance computing capabilities to office workers. Continue reading →

Hewlett-Packard’s reaction to the move by its former CEO, Mark Hurd, to the upper ranks of Oracle is one of sound and fury, but mostly fear. Continue reading →