Clint Boulton

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is set to launch the next-generation of its high-end Lightning storage system, a machine that some experts expect will be more advanced than anything rivals EMC and IBM have on the market. Called TagmaStore, or Lightning III, the third iteration of the company’s system will feature virtualization and replication features, according […]

Hitachi’s disk drive unit unveiled a 1.8-inch hard disk drive to satisfy consumers’ needs for smaller hard drives that have enough juice to power MP3 players and personal digital assistants. Anh Phan, director of business management at San Jose, Calif.-based Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, said Hitachi has forsaken notebook-based connectors for Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) […]

In a sign of continued convergence in a space where disparate philosophies have stalled growth, a trio of vendors have agreed to help update a specification that describes the communication of events in a Web services architecture. IBM , CA and Sun Microsystems joined original authors Microsoft , BEA and Tibco Software in revamping the […]

In a year when many of the leading e-mail archiving businesses are being snapped up by larger companies, storage and utility computing specialist Veritas Software agreed to acquire KVault Software Limited for $225 million in cash. KVS makes Enterprise Vault, software that lets its 1.7 million users store, manage, back-up and archive corporate e-mail and […]

When customers invest in storage infrastructure, they avoid massive upgrades because of the associated costs of replacing legacy equipment with new gear. That’s why two standards organizations Monday voted to extend the fibre channel roadmap to deliver fibre channel storage at 8 gigabits per second (Gbps) from a storage device interconnect into switched storage area […]

IBM is broadening its iSeries line, rolling out four flavors of a new mid-range server that scales from one to four Power5 processors. The new eServer i550 is intended to fit between the company’s previous i5 machines, the i520 and i570, which were unveiled in May. The i520 is a one- to two-processor box. While […]

While many programmers and IT managers talk about Web services and service-oriented architectures , the technologies aren’t nearly as valuable as when they can be tied to business processes to help loosely coupled applications conduct transactions. That is why a nascent niche known as business process management (BPM) is holding increasingly more sway over a […]

Sun Microsystems bested rival IBM Thursday when it secured a contract with the Department of Energy (DoE) to provide a major computer cluster for designing nuclear reactors at a lab in Idaho. The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) will lease the cluster, which consists of more than 230 Sun Fire V20z servers running […]

Due to poor execution in its enterprise server and storage business, HP warned that earnings for the third quarter would be 24 cents per share, 7 cents lower than analysts’ consensus. In a surprise conference call Thursday to discuss the news, HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina said that, although the company expects to post […]

As a leading server vendor, IBM has spent a lot of money developing new, more compact machines with so-called “mainframe-inspired” technologies. That doesn’t mean Big Blue has forgotten about its former bread-and-butter boxes. The company has been making a case for not just the survival, but the continued success of its zSeries mainframe machines as […]

In a bitter case between business intelligence software rivals, a federal court has enjoined Business Objects from using confidential MicroStrategy documents. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found Business Objects guilty of misappropriating MicroStrategy trade secrets and slapped a cease and desist order on the San Jose, Calif., company in the […]

UPDATED: Several leading software vendors have submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) the draft of a key specification to foster the interoperability of Web services. In a sign of unity, usual standards collaborators Microsoft, IBM, and BEA Systems were joined by SAP AG and Sun Microsystems to deliver WS-Addressing to the W3C as […]