Clint Boulton

After months of tweaking, Grand Central Communications has finished the latest version of its Business Services Network, a system that shuttles business integration services over the Web to help clients manage and bundle applications. Brian Mulloy, director of product marketing for Grand Central, said Business Services Network ’05 is a compelling alternative to traditional integration […]

Sun Microsystems on Monday made its broadest storage product launch in years, unveiling new hardware and software to improve data management at a time when companies are concerned about complying with record retention plans. Topping the list is the third release of the Santa Clara, Calif., company’s Enterprise Storage manager (ESM), the company’s storage operating […]

Just as some analysts believe the market for blade servers is about to heat up, Dell moved forward with its most significant modular server, unveiling the PowerEdge 1855 for powerful computing at a lower cost. Dell sees the PowerEdge 1855 as the perfect answer for clients who need enterprise-grade computing in a smaller form factor […]

HP deepened its relationship with open source software concern JBoss, agreeing to become a major source of support for its application server and Linux. In the deal, for which financial terms have not been disclosed, HP will also use its solid reputation for services and provide a fleet of consultants to help clients design, implement […]

Seeking to beat Microsoft at its own game, VMware has drastically cut prices on its GSX Server, software that virtualizes machines in departments and other less demanding workloads. VMware’s software helps consolidate server workloads by allowing clients to partition and isolate servers into virtual machines, each of which can run standard operating systems, such as […]

With the burgeoning market for software that allows users to share information, IBM introduced a new version of its WebSphere Portal software that features content management, business process integration and virtual portal support. WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms allows clients to enjoy the fruits of business process integration by linking together enterprise applications with collaboration, search […]

IBM continued its high-performance computing push Tuesday, unveiling a Power5-based cluster server that packs the power of a supercomputer into a small form factor. An eight-processor machine, the nodes of the eServer p5-575 can be clustered to run complex supercomputing applications, according to IBM, which took the wraps off the test version at the Super […]

As expected, IBM took over the top slot on the Top500 supercomputing list with a BlueGene/L system that shatters previous Linpack benchmarks at 70.7 trillion floating points per second (teraflops) . Second on the list, unveiled Monday at the Supercomputing 2004 conference in Pittsburgh, Pa., was the Columbia system built by SGI, which was installed […]

OASIS has ratified the first version of the Universal Business Standard, a common XML library of business documents that enable global electronic trading, as an official standard. OASIS’ goal with UBL is to move paper-based processes to electronic commerce with software. Jon Bosak, OASIS UBL technical committee chairman, said UBL 1.0 completes three years of […]

Web services security software maker Reactivity announced XOS 4.1, the latest version of its XML operating system. According to Reactivity CTO and co-founder John Lilly, XOS 4.1 runs on the Intel-based Reactivity Gateway 2400 Series appliance. One of many performance enhancements to the OS include the addition of Gigabit Ethernet wirespeed performance, which cuts out […]

Fresh off the revelation that its top supercomputer has shattered LinPack performance records, IBM Monday said it is offering its Blue Gene system for commercial businesses. The latest BlueGene/L system topped the Top500 list by operating at 70.7 teraflops, or trillion floating points per second. The eServer Blue Gene peaks at 5.7 teraflops per single […]

CommVault, which competes with Veritas Software and Computer Associates in the storage software space, has launched a new wave of data management software to help customers store and retrieve data. In a testament to the information lifecycle management (ILM) trend, the company’s revamped QiNetix suite allows administrators to place data on the appropriate storage medium […]