Clint Boulton

UPDATED: A once promising storage equipment vendor has closed its doors due to weak sales and lack of support from major original equipment manufacturers . Its assets will be sold, but it is unknown to whom at this time. A Candera spokesperson confirmed the closing Thursday, but would offer no other specific details. Illuminata analyst […]

IBM’s decision to sell its personal computing division to China’s leading PC maker Lenovo for $1.75 billion spawned diverse reactions in the industry. Pund-It analyst and founder Charles King said Dell and HP will try to capitalize on IBM’s exodus. “Since Lenovo is not well known in the West, there’s lots of available fear, uncertainty […]

Unwilling to sit back and let Oracle grab all of the attention this week, BEA Systems said a beta of its new application server, WebLogic Server 9.0, will be available for download next week. Code-named “Diablo,” the application server will be the crux of the company’s pending WebLogic Platform 9.0, BEA officials said in a […]

In accordance with its plan to offer a more complete portfolio for information lifecycle management (ILM), HP rolled out new storage devices and management software. Company officials said new products from the company’s StorageWorks include a management software refresh, a new array, HP’s first third-generation tape drive and an optical storage system. ILM is the […]

With Apple by its side, Oracle will begin offering a flexible storage strategy catering to customers concerned about cutting the costs associated with saving data. While Oracle spokespeople would not confirm it, company officials will announce the Resilient Low-Cost Storage Initiative at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco this week. The strategy is part of Oracle’s […]

Microsoft has issued significant security enhancements to its operating system software, making the Windows Server 2003 SP1 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) available for download. The Redmond, Wash., software giant has incorporated several security features in keeping with its promise to deliver customers Trustworthy Computing, a strategy the company instituted in 2002 to help better protect […]

Microsoft has released its second Community Technology Preview (CTP) for SQL Server 2005, adding greater performance and 64-bit support for SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services and SQL Server 2005 Integration Services. Deep in its testing phase, SQL Server 2005 already has 64-bit support for the database engine. But the second CTP rounds out support for […]

Once relegated to small businesses and departments, Linux servers are increasingly being called upon to process enterprise-class workloads, driving applications and databases. This is one of the main thrusts behind the volcanic growth in Linux server shipments, which grew from 15 percent in 2001 to 40 percent in 2004, according to research from IDC. Moreover, […]

While several vendors are finding success in helping clients corral unstructured data like e-mail and medical records, NeoPath Networks hopes to cut a swath through the competition with its virtualized approach to file management. The Santa Clara, Calif., start-up, whose backers include Java creator Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems fame, is offering a software-loaded appliance […]

Though Web services have been much ballyhooed for their ability to reduce the amount of manual coding for programmers, glaring inefficiencies in the way XML is digested threatens to paralyze distributed computing. Modern-day Web services are largely based on XML, which analysts say is fine for simple functions, but tends to get bloated when used […]

Oracle is close to unveiling new Web services tools and a content management server as the cornerstone of its new information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy. In a joint event touting its technology and applications in San Francisco next week, the company will work to instill the theme of “information” into the minds of some 20,000 […]

Opsware agreed to acquire network device automation specialist Rendition Networks for $33 million in cash and stock. The offer includes $15 million in cash and 2.68 million shares of Opsware stock. Should it succeed, the agreement will give Opsware a new addition to its automation software portfolio, which the company poses as a significant piece […]