Jaikumar Vijayan

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.