Patrick Thibodeau - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Patrick Thibodeau

Article | 29/06/2011 Office 365 arrives to flat IT spending

Microsoft is pitching its cloud-based Office 365 as a less costly alternative for IT budgets, assuming IT managers can find money in their budgets for...

Article | 21/06/2011 Japan answers China's supercomputing surge

A new supercomputer from Japan whose performance passed the 8 petaflop milestone ended China's brief period atop the list of the world's fastest super...

Article | 17/06/2011 Obama's CIO quits

The first person ever appointed as the CIO of the US government, Vivek Kundra, is resigning after two and a half years on the job, the White House sai...

Article | 13/06/2011 Inside HP's prefab data center

The cutaway section of Hewlett-Packard's latest iteration of a prefabricated modular data center has a space-station-like feel to it.

Article | 8/06/2011 HP sets $2B in financing to speed cloud adoption

LAS VEGAS -- On the big screen at its user conference here, Hewlett-Packard executives tried to make the practice of cloud computing "bursting" look a...

Article | 2/06/2011 IT increasingly bypassed on cloud adoption

IT departments, long criticized as being too slow in offering new technologies and services, may be facing a grassroots rebellion in many companies ov...

Article | 28/05/2011 Forrester calls Google's Chromebook 'corporate idiocy'

LAS VEGAS - Let's begin this story the same way a murder mystery starts -- with a few bare facts. The victim is Google's Chromebook. The crime scene i...

Article | 26/05/2011 Infosys faces grand jury as visa probe broadens

Indian offshore giant Infosys is facing a federal grand jury probe over the use of B-1 visas by its workers, an inquiry that was touched off by a laws...

Article | 20/05/2011 Big vendors look to challenge VMware with open source

Several big IT vendors, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, BMC Software, Intel and Red Hat, announced this week that they are banding together to promote...

Article | 20/05/2011 Data centers, under strain, expand at furious pace

About a third to half of all data centers will be physically expanding or leasing new space in the next two years, according to recent surveys.

Article | 12/05/2011 Intel, partners push for cloud standards

There is no shortage of criticism about the cloud, about its lack of interoperability, fear of vendor lock-in as well as the security risks.

Article | 9/05/2011 Data center double duty

Data centers continue to be filled with more and more IT systems, but enterprises aren't necessarily hiring more people to manage that new equipment, ...

Article | 30/04/2011 Amazon cloud outage was triggered by configuration error

Amazon has released a detailed postmortem and mea culpa about the partial outage of its cloud services platform last week and identified the culprit: ...

Article | 29/04/2011 HP starts work on $2.5B NASA contract

The weak first quarter growth in gross domestic product announced by the government Wednesday was blamed, in part, by a decline in public sector spend...

Article | 26/04/2011 Who gets blame for Amazon outage?

Amazon.com has promised to provide a "detailed post-mortem" on the root causes of the prolonged outage of its cloud services in recent days. Users of ...