Clint Boulton

Underscoring the flexibility many analysts believe is necessary in modern IT architectures, Topspin Communications Monday unveiled a starter kit that facilitates utility computing. The Grid-to-Go package, which includes switches and adapters for tying servers, storage and applications together, is designed for commodity servers from IBM , Dell , HP and Sun Microsystems . Stu Aaron, […]

McData moved to slingshot past rivals Monday, unveiling a router that shuttles data across networks with significant performance and connectivity improvements. The device also has heterogeneous vendor support. The Eclipse 2640 is a 1U (1.75 inches), 16-port storage area network (SAN) router. Twelve of the ports can be fibre channel or Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) , […]

The market for management software is about to get a little smaller, as Nimbus Software AS Friday agreed to purchase long-time partner Converse Software in a stock deal for an undisclosed sum. Should the deal succeed, the new company will be called Nimsoft and will gain a significant toehold in the competitive market for management […]

When Sun Microsystems President and COO Jonathan Schwartz made his pitch to financial services customers at an event in New York Tuesday, he provoked a flurry of neutral to skeptical comments among analysts that cover the company. This should come as no surprise. New products aside, Schwartz pledged several moves to erase the perception that […]

NetManage agreed to acquire privately held Librados for an undisclosed sum. The deal would give NetManage application adapters to help its Host Services Platform server applications via service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services . Specifically, NetManage is aiming to expand its SOA strategy for the Microsoft .NET and J2EE camps, making the Librados application adapters […]

Oracle and Dell reaffirmed their longstanding partnership to bring low-cost computing packages to customers, bundling Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition One with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 on Dell PowerEdge servers. The new offering allows small business customers to build and run applications on some of the most popular software in the industry with commodity hardware […]

NEW YORK — Sun Microsystems President and COO Jonathan Schwartz declared war on Red Hat Linux on Intel-based x86 machines in an attempt to woo financial services customers. At the quarterly Network Computer event in New York City Tuesday, themed “Take Back Wall Street,” Schwartz unveiled new migration programs to woo and wean customers off […]

EMC released a package it says will improve e-mail productivity on Microsoft Exchange Server. Express Solution for E-Mail is the first in what the company promises will be a series of products that provide information lifecycle management for small- and medium-sized businesses. The EMC Express Solution for E-Mail includes hardware, software and services to help […]

Sun Microsystems unveiled its next-generation of storage products and business continuity services in an effort to lure customers from HP , IBM and EMC . Launched in New York as part of its quest to regain financial services customers, the products include a mid-range and high-end storage server, a network-attached storage device and an infrastructure […]

Cisco Systems added software and two new devices to its MDS 9000 line of storage networking technology to better compete with rivals Brocade Communications Systems and McData . The MDS 9216i fabric switch and the Multiprotocol Services Module, announced today at Storage Decisions 2004 in Chicago, feature Ethernet ports that can support Fibre Channel over […]

UPDATED: Microsoft entered the disk-based backup and recovery market with the launch of Data Protection Server (DPS) at Storage Decisions 2004 in Chicago today. The new server improves the efficiency of retrieving files and safeguards data in its Windows Server System family. It also helps administrators use such Windows Server products as the Active Directory […]

Two leaders in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) space are pairing up to provide a cost-effective management and registry system. SOA management provider AmberPoint and SOA repository specialist Systinet have jointly developed a software and services pack for customers looking to manage a robust distributed computing architecture. The SOA Starter Pack includes AmberPoint Management Foundation and […]