Jaikumar Vijayan

Articles by Jaikumar Vijayan

Little war-related activism reported

The vast majority of war-related cyberattacks last week appear to have been little more than low-level Web site defacements that had little or no impact on U.S. businesses.

HP enterprise exec discusses postmerger strategy

As executive vice president of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Enterprise Systems Group, Peter Blackmore is responsible for an US$11.4 billion business. Blackmore spoke with Computerworld last week about how HP has fared since its merger with Compaq Computer Corp. last year.

User benefits of new Sun chips may be slow to arrive

Sun Microsystems Inc.'s plans to develop a new generation of performance-enhancing microprocessors are aimed at demonstrating the company's technology prowess amid an overall slowing of its business, analysts said.

Unprepared firms slammed

The widespread disruptions caused by this week's SQL Slammer worm demonstrated yet again the importance of proactive vulnerability patch management, users and analysts said.

HP sets the stage for Alpha’s last hurrah

Hewlett-Packard Co. is gearing up for the launch of a long-awaited line of AlphaServers that promises to deliver substantial price/performance gains over existing technology.

IBM takes steps to relieve iSeries pricing pain

IBM Corp. this week will roll out new hardware, pricing and upgrade options for users of its iSeries systems as part of a US$500 million effort to revitalize the 25-year-old midrange server line.

Gain from your Web outsourcer

Gone are the days when companies relied on managed service providers to host static, single-server sites.

Unisys clears pathway to single architecture

With the introduction of its newest ClearPathPlus server last month, Unisys Corp. has completed migrating all of its proprietary mainframe-class servers to a single architecture based largely on Intel Corp. technologies.

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