Clint Boulton

In a quest to improve the connectivity in clients’ storage area networks, storage gear vendors QLogic Corp. and McData have agreed to create a special Fibre Channel switch for blade servers . Financial terms were not made public. But as part of a multi-year alliance, the companies will create an embedded server switch and switch […]

Grand Central Communications CEO Halsey Minor has a mind to rewrite the book on application integration. The executive wants to replace traditional integration methods with network services that pipe software to companies over the Internet, saving programmers from having to rummage through messy strings of code. That’s the message behind Grand Central’s latest Business Services […]

IBM said its 64-way eSeries p5 595 has surpassed three million transactions per minute on the TPC-C benchmark, a measure that beat rival HP in price-to-performance ratio by 37 percent. The TPC-C, the trademark name for the Transaction Performance Processing Council, is widely considered the most important test for measuring system performance, tallying how many […]

One day before its $9.2 billion offer to acquire rival PeopleSoft expires, Oracle made another pitch to PeopleSoft’s shareholders in a bid to convince investors to take the deal. In an open letter from Oracle Board Chairman Jeff Henley, Oracle attacked PeopleSoft’s recent financial projections and noted that financial analysts, such as S.G. Cowen’s Drew […]

As part of its Unix server market strategy, IBM is expected to announce a major milestone in computing for its new Unix-based Power5 systems, internetnews.com has learned. A source familiar with the plans said Adalio Sanchez, general manager for IBM eServer pSeries in IBM Systems Group, will preside over a global teleconference Thursday. Sanchez is […]

Firm in its resolve that more and more users will access the Internet with mobile devices, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) said it is considering a new effort to make Web access on a mobile device as easy it is on a personal computer. W3C spokeswoman Janet Daly said the W3C Mobile Web Initiative […]

With record retention regulations putting pressure on health care organizations to safeguard patients’ medical records, GE Healthcare turned to EMC to help power an archiving system that will quickly retrieve X-rays. The health care provider launched Centricity PACS SE, a digital system that features EMC’s Clariion AX100 machine, an entry-level storage area network device. GE […]

Emboldened by the allure of rich revenues in Web services software, several vendors this week announced products and partnerships concerning distributed computing. With an eye toward securing application-to-application communication across remote networks, Digital Evolution released a virtual private network (VPN) appliance that ensures the delivery secure, XML-based Web services between business partners. Because Web services […]

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates debuted a raft of software tools from the company’s evolving Windows Server System, including core components of the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) for automated computer management. At the Microsoft IT Forum 04 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Gates announced Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005, a performance management application, and […]

Network Appliance has dolled up its Data Ontap operating system with new virtualization capabilities that pool storage devices and prepare changes to storage demand on the fly. Data Ontap 7G, which runs on the vendor’s file systems, features FlexVol, a software feature that helps provision storage for applications. FlexVol creates virtualized data containers that eliminate […]

Dell and Microsoft continued their joint efforts to automate the data center with a deal to bundle management software that triggers changes with one mouse click. Slated for delivery in January 2005, SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Dell Updates is a combination of Dell OpenManage 4 systems management software and Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) […]

Looking to provide additional management and security for its enterprise servers, Sun Microsystems unveiled the Sun Secure Application Switch N2000 Series. Based on technology from its Nauticus Networks acquisition, Sun officials promise the switch will provide dramatic improvements in availability, performance and security for distributed network applications. Josh Weiss, vice president of Sun’s Network Systems […]