Clint Boulton

Joining rivals HP and Dell in the race to develop infrastructure featuring the new 64-bit Intel Xeon chip, IBM refreshed its line of xSeries machines, adding cooling and virtualization features. The company again honored its company-wide agreement to bring so-called mainframe-like technologies to smaller machines. Based on the Intel Xeon Extended Memory 64-bit Technology (EM64T) […]

In a move to get more users to access the Web via mobile devices, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) have inked an agreement to collaborate on specifications. The two standards bodies Thursday said they will share information to guard against creating dueling standards for making it easier for […]

Looking to flesh out its software brands, IBM acquired application performance management (APM) software maker Cyanea. The purchase closed Thursday. While IBM officials would not reveal financial terms of the deal, the company will fold the privately held start-up into its Tivoli systems management software business. With Cyanea, IBM will add software that monitors and […]

In a big step to reaffirm its commitment to open source technologies, Computer Associates will officially open source its long forgotten database software at LinuxWorld in San Francisco next week. CA officials confirmed the company will open source version 3 of its Ingres Enterprise Relational Database (Ingres r3) under its own CA Trusted Open Source […]

In the second major supercomputing contract announced this week, Silicon Graphics (SGI) said NASA has chosen its Altix servers as the base for a massive Linux system geared to help scientists study space and aerospace engineering. The Space Exploration Simulator supercomputer, one of the largest Linux systems ever assembled, will comprise twenty 512-processor Altix systems, […]

Looking to take the sting out of Java development, BEA Systems released code under Apache Beehive in the hopes of getting programmers to write service-oriented architecture (SOAs) applications. Launched in May to help sway developers to and unite them against Microsoft .NET, Beehive is the donation of the company’s WebLogic Workshop application framework, a development […]

IBM said it is using XML to make Web and digital content easier to find in repositories. To do this, engineers in the systems vendor’s Silicon Valley Labs said this week they are sprinkling its content management software with Project Cinnamon, a homegrown technology that simplifies the management of XML content by automating the modeling […]

To shore up the security and quality of its Office System suite, Microsoft has released the first service pack for download. Office 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) features enhancements for the Office System, launched in New York last October, as well as enhancements for Office OneNote 2003 and Office InfoPath 2003. Office System is a […]

Another day, another supercomputer deployment for IBM. In a contract estimated to be worth in the tens of millions, the Department of Defense has solicited a cluster of eServer p655 machines from Big Blue to use in national defense research projects for the Navy. The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) Major Shared Resource Center will use […]

Delivering on the promise to vastly improve its database software, Microsoft unveiled sweeping enhancements to SQL Server 2005, including support for AMD’s Opteron processors. The company Monday pledged support for AMD Opteron chips with Direct Connect Architecture in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Beta 2, calling the offering a complement to 64-bit Intel Itanium support in […]

Capitalizing on the increased interest in safeguarding the delivery of Web services, security appliance maker DataPower rolled out a new networking device that makes XML and non-XML data usable for mainframes, enterprise service buses (ESBs) and application integration. The XI50 Integration Appliance supports a range of popular transport protocols, including IBM’s MQ Series, and can […]

The partnership between IBM and Cisco continues to pay dividends. The companies added support for mid-range arrays from Hitachi Data Systems, EMC and HP for their joint storage virtualization device. IBM officials said third-party support for the IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) for the Cisco MDS 9000 product was added to help customers with […]