Clint Boulton

The market for software that pushes applications across networks grew 4.4 percent in 2003. According to IDC, the growth is projected to continue every year through 2008, as IBM continues to lead the space with a healthy market share. IBM led the application deployment sector, which includes application, Web and integration servers and message-oriented, transaction-server […]

Dell is looking to get a little leaner in the blade server market. Company officials said this week that Dell is developing new blades, thin servers that slide into a chassis that conserve space, with greater functionality and a denser form factor than current machines on the market. Slated for a fourth-quarter release, the ultra-thin […]

Although a lack of interoperability has threatened to hold Web services adoption back, Liberty Alliance, a group dedicated to forging an open identity standard, cracked that barrier by certifying nine single sign-in products this week. The group awarded Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Netegrity, Novell, Oracle, Ping Identity, Sun, and Trustgenix its “Liberty Alliance Interoperable” mark in […]

With a mind to plug gaps in its strategy for managing customers’ storage layers, StorageTek will unveil a new tape system, software and a partnership with long-time chum Sun Microsystems at the Storage World Conference 2004 in Long Beach, Calif., this week. Like rival EMC , StorageTek has embarked on a plan to provide information […]

Oracle has crafted a service-oriented architecture (SOA) based on its recent acquisition of hometown start-up Collaxa, which makes business process management (BPM) software. The company did not reveal a purchase price for Collaxa, whose BPM platform helps companies coordinate the glut of processes and technologies in their software stacks. The purchase had been rumored for […]

Looking to capture more mindshare among hobbyists and students, Microsoft said it is expanding its product line to better target developers who enjoy tinkering with code but don’t get paid to do so. The company also unveiled software development collaborations with e-commerce giants eBay, PayPal and Amazon.com at TechEd Europe in Amsterdam Tuesday. Officials for […]

InfiniBand gear maker Voltaire Monday unveiled several products to improve storage networking on clusters and grids, including parallel file systems and clustered network-attached storage (NAS) over InfiniBand. The new infrastructure epitomizes Voltaire’s desire to pare costs associated with storage while boosting the application processing power across every server in a cluster, using the speedy InfiniBand […]

The European Commission has temporarily suspended its order requiring Microsoft to remove its media player from European versions of its Windows operating system, giving the software giant the opportunity to continue to prepare its defense. Monday was the deadline for the sanctions, which were lifted Sunday. The stay is a short-term reprieve for the software […]

While IBM has already created service-oriented architecture software, services and design centers for customers, the company hadn’t provided a wealth of advice for programmers on how to build their own. That is about to change on Monday with the announcement of an expanded section on its Developer Works site that provides tutorials on how to […]

Red Hat lifted the wraps on its storage file system based on Linux and made its source code available under the General Public License (GPL) , Red Hat spokeswoman Leigh Day said. Called Red Hat Global File System (GFS), the cluster file system and volume manager combo are essentially the same product that the company […]

Led by outsourcing and managed hosting, spending for storage services is improving and will top $30 billion by 2007 worldwide, according to a new report from the Dataquest unit of high-tech research outfit Gartner. The $30 billion tab is encouraging. According to report author and Gartner analyst Adam Couture, the storage services market was worth […]

Taking steps to make its WebSphere line gel even more with its e-business on-demand strategy, IBM is writing new software that boosts the performance of companies’ software and hardware to provide better services. Currently in beta, WebSphere Extended Deployment (XD) employs functionality from the Armonk, N.Y., company’s mainframe line to handle unexpected spikes in usage […]