Clint Boulton

Microsoft has taken the second release candidate (RC2) of its highly-anticipated Windows XP Service Pack 2 public to further clean up the code to meet a final release deadline this summer. The Redmond, Wash., software giant, in the midst of a $300 million marketing blitz for the vaunted update, released the RC2 code Monday for […]

Information systems vendor EMC grew its storage software revenues $145 million in the first quarter of 2004 year-over-year, as the overall market grew 23.3 percent on revenues of $1.85 billion for the same period. According to market researcher IDC, while EMC’s results were buoyed by its acquisition of Legato, the market performed well overall, with […]

Actional is shifting its strategy to include service-oriented architecture (SOA) in the latest point upgrade to its software platform. Actional 5.1, announced Monday, now supports databases, Web pages, middleware and legacy systems not based on XML or SOAP. The Mountain View, Calif., company will still make software that shepherds Web services or application-to-application communication, said […]

Hewlett-Packard is introducing new software and services that provide customers with a wider window into their IT assets and processes, part of a move to offer systems management as a service. The portfolio, rolling out this week, is the latest addition to its Adaptive Enterprise strategy. It addresses Business Management, IT Service Management, Application Management […]

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) became the last major storage systems vendor to endorse the increasingly popular Serial ATA technology, introducing a software application that adds an extra layer of low-cost storage to customers’ data centers. Designed for the Hitachi subsidiary’s mid-range Thunder 9500 V modular storage server, the SATA Intermix Option lets users use less […]

NEW YORK — Though it announced an across-the-board product refresh in February, EMC held back a bit on revealing future innovations fueled by the company’s spending on research and development. That all changed Thursday at EMC’s annual analyst meeting in New York City, when officials unveiled hardware and software projects to help the company fill […]

NEW YORK — Expressing confidence that the IT market has bounced back strongly from a few sluggish years, EMC’s Joseph Tucci is making some bold predictions. The company president and chief executive boldly predicted the company would achieve revenues of $8.1 billion and net income of $850 million for 2004. The sales and earnings prediction […]

Blade servers from HP will pack a little more punch as the systems vendor said it will unveil “double density” machines later this month, adding more CPU and memory into customers’ data centers without taking up more space. James Mouton, vice president of platforms for HP’s Industry Standard Servers, said the move stems from customer […]

NEC Solutions America Wednesday became the first major manufacturer in the U.S. to unveil a blade server based on the Intel Itanium 2 architecture. The Express5800/1020Ba blade server, set to be released in September alongside the arrival of the new Madison 9M chip from Intel, is based on Intel’s 64-bit computing platform. The blade server […]

At EMC’s meeting with analysts in New York City last August, CEO Joseph Tucci told attendees to expect a lot of activity from the storage vendor directed toward furthering its information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy. This time around, at its annual analyst meeting Thursday in New York, analysts said attendees can expect more of the […]

If VERITAS Software has its way, running Linux on the Intel Itanium platform will become wildly successful as more software vendors build applications that will run on the open source operating system and 64-bit computing architecture. That’s why the Mountain View, Calif., maker of storage and utility computing software extended its support for the Intel […]

With little fanfare Monday, Dell announced its most powerful server to date, a 64-bit system based on Intel’s Itanium architecture. The PowerEdge 7250 server was created to run the heaviest applications in customers’ data centers, including database software and applications for customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) . With the Round Rock, […]