Clint Boulton

A specification for letting products exchange information about security flaws in Web services and applications has been passed as a standard by OASIS. The e-business standards body ratified Application Vulnerability Description Language (AVDL) version 1.0 Wednesday, although the spec is already being employed by companies and government agencies. This includes the central security incident response […]

Showing a convergence between open source and mainstream enterprise technology, HP unveiled a new file system that uses the company’s hardware and Linux to deliver up to 100 times more bandwidth than traditional clusters. The HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share (HP SFS), which includes the company’s ProLiant servers and StorageWorks disk arrays, allows bandwidth to […]

A day after the new supercomputer rankings were released, a leading InfiniBand gear maker unveiled a new switch platform for boosting the performance of large computing clusters and grids. InfiniCon Systems Tuesday unveiled new InfinIO 9000 Series switches for large-scale computing, as well as the InfinIO 5000 Series, which supports bisectional clustering bandwidth from up […]

A group dedicated to automating business process management (BPM) in the computing industry will demonstrate how its workflow protocol works with the asynchronous service access protocol (ASAP) for facilitating long-running Web services. The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), which includes IBM and Microsoft, has created the Wf-XML 2.0 Web commerce protocol to help companies link processes […]

Less than two months after acquiring ActiveViews in order to add ad-hoc reporting to its business intelligence stack, Microsoft unveiled the first service pack upgrade for its SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services software. A key piece of the Redmond, Wash., company’s SQL Server database platform, Reporting Services aims to help business performance by providing enterprises […]

At Supercomm 2004 this week, IBM will roll out the eServer Integrated Platform for Telecommunications (IPT), which includes software running carrier-grade Linux on the company’s BladeCenter T machine. The company began working on the IPT software, geared to propel such applications as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) over a network, a couple of years ago […]

AmberPoint became the latest management software specialist to upgrade its platform to support the broader service-oriented architecture approach, which includes Web services and other components. The Oakland, Calif., specialist Monday also said it has received $8.2 million in funding from Crosslink Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures and Motorola Ventures. AmberPoint Vice President of […]

EMC closely aligned its storage management software with its information lifecycle management strategy (ILM) Monday by refreshing its ControlCenter suite to better care for storage resources across tiered environments. The Hopkinton, Mass., information systems maker created ControlCenter 5.2 with new storage resource management (SRM) features that monitor, report and provision resources. SRM software helps increase […]

Determined to provide unprecedented ease of use, the Eclipse Foundation has unveiled the third version of the popular Java development tools environment, which now includes a rich client platform. The first full upgrade in nearly two years, the Eclipse Platform Release 3.0 boasts across-the-board improvements, many centered around usability. Improving usability of the open source […]

If current trends hold up, server growth will be the best its been in a few years thanks to a 5-percent worldwide increase in enterprise spending this year. Led by Linux- and Windows-based servers, the market is enjoying the comforts of a $53 billion boost in 2004, according to IDC. Analysts for the Framingham, Mass.-based […]

Looking to provide 3G for mobile phones, Broadcom agreed to buy Zyray Wireless for $96 million in stock. Zyray makes co-processors that facilitate Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), a high-speed 3G wireless technology with the capacity to offer higher data speeds than CDMA for wireless phones. Broadcom will integrate the San Diego, Calif., company’s […]

Nearly two million adults fell prey to identity theft scams over a one-year period, costing them about $2.4 billion in losses from fraud, according to new research from Gartner . The Stamford, Conn.-based research outfit found that perpetrators were gaining illegal access to checking accounts from such subtle tactics as “phishing,” the act of e-mailing […]