Patrick Thibodeau - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Patrick Thibodeau

Article | 19/04/2011 China set to surpass U.S. in PC purchases

When it comes to IT, China likes to build big, whether it's the world's largest supercomputer or city-size complexes dedicated to cloud computing. Now...

Article | 9/04/2011 Dell to spend $1B on cloud services this year

As the market for cloud services grows, the big enterprise IT vendors are moving swiftly to develop cloud offerings that cater to their respective mar...

Article | 5/04/2011 Indian IT firms hire few U.S. workers

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) surveyed Indian companies across a variety of industries and found that in the majority of industry sectors...

Article | 31/03/2011 Tablet sales to soar as prices drop through 2015, says Gartner

Gartner Wednesday revised its worldwide IT spending forecast upward, mostly in response to strong 2010 sales of media tablet computers like Apple's iP...

Article | 29/03/2011 Feds want employee's laptop in B-1 visa case

A lawsuit filed by an Infosys Technologies employee who refused to help the India-based company bring in B-1 visa holders is drawing attention from fe...

Article | 17/03/2011 Three bullet points: Apotheker's battle plan for Apple, IBM, the world

The world of new Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker is lot more complicated than the one imagined by his predecessors.

Article | 1/03/2011 Cross-ocean clouds gain despite millisecond delays

Just over a year ago, Tohru Futami, CIO and managing director at AIG Edison Life Insurance Co. in Japan, knew that his company needed to upgrade its c...

Article | 22/02/2011 Acer returning to U.S. server market

Acer, the No. 4 PC maker in the U.S., has released a line of servers and storage products for this market.

Article | 18/02/2011 As cloud grows, IT hiring flatlines

Corporate IT departments are increasing their spending on hardware and cloud services, but not on new hiring in this weak economy.

Article | 16/02/2011 IBM makes its zEnterprise 196 mainframe friendlier

IBM's latest mainframe, the zEnterprise 196, was released last summer as a cross-platform management system that could work in mixed processor and ope...

Article | 8/02/2011 China building a city for cloud computing

China is building a city-sized cloud computing and office complex that will include a mega data center, one of the projects fueling that country's dou...

Article | 31/01/2011 Microsoft shifts some work out of Egypt

The Think Tank Cafe in the Smart Villages hi-tech park in Cairo. (Image: Smart Villages) WASHINGTON -- Egypt has been aggressively attracting tech com...

Article | 19/01/2011 Black Hat puts 'offense' on its cyber agenda

ARLINGTON, Va. -- The ability of the Stuxnet worm to damage Iran's nuclear complex demonstrated, in a very public way, the capabilities of cyber weapo...

Article | 11/01/2011 IT hiring shows gains, but jobs may be shifting

WASHINGTON -- For tech workers, hiring and wages improved at year end, mirroring last month's overall gain in employment.

Article | 21/12/2010 Recession extends hardware lifecycles

The recession may have accelerated companies extending the lifecycles of PCs, laptops and servers, but that change may become permanent.