Clint Boulton

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Thursday said that a BlueGene/L supercomputer built by IBM for nuclear arms research runs at a record 70.72 teraflops, making it the fastest computer on the LINPACK benchmark test. Jack Dongarra, LINPACK test creator and co-author of the well-regarded Top500 report of the world’s most powerful computing systems, confirmed […]

IBM’s Global Services division has created a practice to help customers with Web services management tools scale to larger service-oriented architectures (SOA). SOAs are the latest and hottest trend in distributed computing, enabling asynchronous communication among Web services and allowing software assets to be reused to minimize manual coding. As a crucial part of an […]

Hewlett-Packard has agreed to insert a four gigabyte fibre channel switch from Brocade Communications Systems into its BladeSystems. The move is to provide better connectivity and performance for storage area networks (SAN) . Rick Becker, vice president and general manager of the HP BladeSystem Organization, said the Brocade 4 gigabyte Fibre Channel Switch Module should […]

Keeping its pledge to expand its portfolio for small- and medium-sized businesses, EMC recently acquired Allocity, a software start-up that provides back-up, restore and provisioning for Microsoft Exchange systems. EMC spokesman Dave Farmer confirmed that the Hopkinton, Mass., information systems provider quietly picked up Allocity last month but declined to name a purchase price for […]

Adding a big piece to its utility computing jigsaw puzzle, Veritas Software rewrote its OpForce server provisioning software to include application discovery and configuration. OpForce Enterprise Edition 4.0 saves businesses time and money by letting administrators discover, provision, configure and track several different brands of servers and applications across data centers. The release completes the […]

UPDATED: Oracle has upped its offer for PeopleSoft to $24 per share, in what it called its final bid for the elusive enterprise applications company it has been trying to acquire since June 2003. The revised offer is $3 per share higher than its previous offers and brings the total bid to about $8.8 billion. […]

BEA Systems is ramping up its approach to service-oriented architecture by helping customers plan distributed computing architectures in key vertical markets. The new BEA Enterprise Solutions program includes software from the company’s WebLogic Platform 8.1, sales and marketing and services to address financial services, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, logistics and government markets. Mark Atherton, vice president […]

MySQL AB has made version 4.1 of its database software available to the public after months of testing customer production deployments. Though first posed as a small server for departments within large businesses, MySQL has been increasingly tailored for the so-called enterprise-class businesses, as evidenced by the features included in the latest version. MySQL 4.1 […]

Several vendors led by Sun Microsystems have published a draft of Java Business Integration (JBI), a blueprint for facilitating Java software integration based on service-oriented architecture (SOA). Also known as Java Specification Request (JSR) 208, JBI is a new container model for hosting pluggable integration as event-driven services in an SOA, according to David Chappell, […]

VMware kicked off its inaugural VMworld 2004 conference Wednesday, announcing new virtual symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) of up to four physical processors, a community for technical users and a channel program. SMP provides fast performance by making multiple chips available to individual processes simultaneously. In the second half of 2005, VMware will offer four-way SMP as […]

NEW YORK — Buoyed by the promise of great revenue potential from small- and medium-sized businesses, IBM announced a $200 million advertising campaign, new technology packages and research investments to boost its on-demand play. The new offerings were the meat of an event held at the Museum of Natural History to celebrate the two-year anniversary […]

Sun Microsystems is filling gaps in its mid-range storage server portfolio with its StorEdge 6130 array. The system’s lower entry point is aimed at smaller businesses. Billed as the “baby brother” to the StorEdge 6920 launched last month, the server is also designed to provide powerful virtualization functionality to medium-sized companies and divisions within large […]