Clint Boulton

Sun Microsystems is ramping up its long-time alliance with SAP by providing grid computing infrastructure and services for the applications giant, in a deal to be announced Monday. Called the Sun Infrastructure Solution for N1 Grid for SAP Solutions, the latest offering is aimed at lowering costs for customers looking to consolidate equipment in their […]

With competition in the market for business integration software heating up, Informatica Thursday unveiled a services architecture for helping enterprises manage data interaction between applications, systems and people. The Universal Data Services (UDS) architecture, which some analysts described as a form of Web services , helps users access, integrate and audit information. Data services access […]

Technology services provider NaviSite moved to significantly expand its managed applications portfolio Thursday when it agreed to acquire in-state neighbor Surebridge for about $54 million in cash and stock. NaviSite also announced John Gavin, Jr., as chief financial officer, taking the helm from Jim Pluntze, who will be promoted to the new role of senior […]

VERITAS Wednesday defined more of its utility computing play, including product roadmaps, services and a key partnership with Sun Microsystems . Day two of the Mountain View, Calif. company’s annual software event found the company agreeing to expand its relationship with Sun by increasing its support for the Solaris platform to include Solaris Operating System […]

Ratcheting up its battle with Microsoft in the mid-sized business space, IBM launched a new business integration server Wednesday geared to help smaller companies get business processes tapping in time with IT. WebSphere Business Integration Server Express, (WBI-Express) is the new keystone of IBM’s business process integration strategy for small and medium business (SMB). The […]

Looking to add an intelligence layer to its InfiniBand switches, Topspin Communications Wednesday introduced software designed to boost the utility computing platforms of customers and system vendors. The VFrame server virtualization software suite will provide policies to provision virtual servers on the fly for end users, OEMs and software partners, according to Stu Aaron, vice […]

Arguing that a solid storage infrastructure is the best starting point for a utility computing model, VERITAS Software CEO Gary Bloom announced steps to create a flexible platform for on-demand environments. The Mountain View, Calif., company, which entered the utility computing market about a year ago, unveiled several software upgrades at its VERITAS VISION 2004 […]

Looking to capitalize on the latest push to move software infrastructure from traditional integration approaches to one based on flexible Web services, IONA Technologies created a developer program to help programmers craft service-oriented architectures (SOAs). Rooted in the Dublin, Ireland-based company’s Web Services integration product Artix, the Artix Developer Program will help developers construct SOAs […]

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has aligned its software and hardware systems more closely with a new initiative dubbed “application optimized storage.” The push, announced Tuesday, includes a device to fill a gap in the company’s Thunder modular storage system line, along with new software from the company’s HiCommand Storage Area Management Suite. The new Thunder […]

Continuing efforts to move existing customers from Windows NT 4.0 to its current Windows Server 2003 operating system, Microsoft on Monday said it has written a file server migration tool kit. The software eases the migration path of file servers from the legacy Windows NT 4.0 platform, which will be discontinued in December, to the […]

E-commerce standards across the globe could start to align now that standards body OASIS has approved for public use a description language for XML-based purchase orders, invoices and shipping notices. After six years in development, the Universal Business Language Version 1.0 is now available in draft form for users to freely test the specification, according […]

The wait for a physical manifestation of IBM’s first-of-its-kind virtual computing platform is over. Big Blue took the wraps off two servers Monday — dubbed eServer i5 520 and 570 — built with the company’s next-generation POWER5 processors, which are primed to provide twice the computing power of their POWER4+ predecessors. The systems run a […]