New software from Xsigo Systems is designed to link all the servers in a data center virtually, allowing IT managers to reconfigure virtual machines and other resources without carrying out traditional networking tasks. The Xsigo Server Fabric extends the company’s technology beyond individual racks of...

Often, humans’ predictions of future technology is slightly off. There are no flying cars, after all. But, every once in a while people’s futuristic predictions can be surprisingly accurate. Two videos rounded up by All Things D show AT&T and newspaper publisher Knight Ridder had an amazingly...

Clearwire has a new chief, announcing today it has promoted current COO Erik Prusch to the twin posts of president and CEO. The announcement comes at a critical time in the company’s plan to create a state-of-the-art 4G wireless network. Clearwire is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in new...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. With the explosion of job-specific data center appliances, it is common today to find several appliances monitoring a single resource....

I have a four-year-old 17-inch Sony VAIO laptop. Everything worked great until I upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. The laptop crashed, and even after I formatted the drive and did a clean reinstall of Windows 7, it continued to crash. Whenever I got it to boot, it produced lines in any video that I...