Paul Venezia - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Paul Venezia

Article | 6/04/2010 Apple iPad surprises, disappoints

So you've probably heard about the iPad. Apple is once again making headlines with the release of a consumer-focused computing device, and the level o...

Article | 16/02/2010 Small business storage finds a new gear

I continue to be very impressed with Synology's small business storage products, and the new DS1010+ is no exception. In fact, it elevates my opinion ...

Article | 11/11/2009 HTC Droid Eris, the under-Droid

It's apparently not common knowledge that there are actually two Droids: the Motorola Droid and the HTC Droid Eris. They're both Android-based phones,...

Article | 11/11/2009 Cisco UCS wows

Revolutionary. Cutting edge. State of the art. These are words and phrases that are bandied around so very many products in the IT field that they bec...

Article | 1/10/2009 Citrix XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2

The leader in application virtualization shows us why with the addition of VM-hosted applications, plus usability and manageability enhancements, in X...

Article | 24/08/2009 Sun Fire X2270 server

The new Sun Fire X2270 and Sun Fire X4270 servers are the fastest x64 servers Sun has ever produced.

Article | 7/07/2009 HP BladeSystem Matrix

During the Big Dig, the city of Boston erected a sign saying, "Rome wasn't built in a day. If it was, we would have hired their contractor." That's a ...

Article | 30/06/2009 Are sealed-in laptop batteries a good idea?

When Apple introduced its new MacBooks recently, it touted a doubled battery life -- but noted that the laptops' batteries were sealed into the case, ...

Article | 23/06/2009 iPhone 3G S is evolution in action

The iPhone 3G S handset is well appointed, functional, and nicely packaged, but it's not at the high-end of the smartphone hardware scale. The OS and ...

Article | 25/05/2009 VMware vSphere 4

VMware vSphere 4, out today, is a big release, with plenty of new features and changes, but it's not your run-of-the-mill major update. The new featur...

Article | 21/04/2009 VMware View 3.0

VMware's VDI solution makes virtual desktops real, but not particularly easy to manage

Article | 20/04/2009 Sun Storage 7210 unified storage system

Not so long ago, I tested the Sun Fire X4500 Storage Server, aka Thumper, This wass a dual-CPU, dual-core Opteron-based server running OpenSolaris and...

Article | 9/12/2008 Fedora turns 10

There comes a point in the life of any hard-core Linux user when the idea of digging about to find yet another obscure piece of software, compiling th...

Article | 28/10/2008 Open source: How e-voting should be done

"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everythi...

Article | 17/09/2008 Citrix hits the VDI high notes

It seems that the whole world has been talking about VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), with very different views of what VDI actually means. If vi...