Clint Boulton

Extending its Power architecture into the automotive field, IBM on Wednesday inked a major supercomputing contract with General Motors , agreeing to provide 145 p655 servers for the automaker to use in auto development and virtual crash simulations. Total cost of the contract, valued in the millions of dollars, was not made public. The servers, […]

Data archiving specialist Plasmon acquired rival Raidtec for about $6 million in cash to strengthen its storage networking portfolio. Cambridge, U.K.-based Plasmon makes optical drives, media and libraries for storing data as alternatives to magneto optical (MO) DVD storage, and tape or disk-based back-up systems. The company’s sweet spot is selling blue laser-based optical drives […]

IBM Wednesday touched off new software and services to help companies craft Service-oriented architectures (SOA) that will help them modify their infrastructure on the fly according to changes in business needs. The news includes software from the Armonk, N.Y. company’s WebSphere line, as well as SOA service plans, courtesy of IBM’s Global Services (IGS) division. […]

A provider of utility computing hooked up with a utility storage outfit Tuesday to create a combination that could compete more strongly with vendors such as IBM, VERITAS Software or EMC . Utility computing provider Egenera joined forces with utility storage specialist 3PAR in a comprehensive server and storage virtualization offering for the utility data […]

Angling for an advantage in a sea of competing storage products, IBM on Tuesday unveiled a new software feature that allows large storage servers to be backed up at global distances at a faster rate than a product from rival EMC. Rich Lechner, vice president of IBM Storage Systems, said IBM Global Mirror for Enterprise […]

Apple on Monday continued its foray into the enterprise storage market with a new storage area network (SAN) file system tailored to stream video for about $1,000. Xsan, designed to undercut more costly file systems from the likes of IBM , SGI and VERITAS Software , is a 64-bit cluster file system for Mac OS […]

Sybase on Monday took steps to deliver on its promise to deliver faster data results for enterprises needing rapid response time with a new software bundle that provides immediate insight into business changes. Sybase Real Time Data Services allows heterogeneous databases to publish and subscribe information to or from messaging architectures to cut down on […]

Believing that enterprises are willing to eschew tape storage for disk-based systems, storage startup Copan Systems unveiled a disk library it believes will revolutionize the market for backing up seldom-used files. The Longmont, Colo., company is positioning the Revolution 200T as the first and only storage machine to deliver a disk-based data repository with the […]

When people hear ‘utility computing,’ IBM and HP likely come to mind, probably because they have thrown the most acquisition and marketing heft into a it. But Sun Microsystems has its own concept of how utility computing — where automated computing is provided on-demand and often billed on a metered basis — is supposed to […]

Aiming to focus on its specialty for selling high-performance computing systems, Silicon Graphics (SGI) Thursday agreed to sell its Alias graphics software business to investment firm Accel-KKR for $57.5 million in cash. SGI, which expects to realize some $50 million in net proceeds after capital adjustments and transaction costs, said in a statement the deal […]

Storage giant EMC reported a rocketing profit of $140 million, or 6 cents per share for its first quarter of 2004, quadrupling its net income of $35 million, or 2 cents per share, from the same first quarter of 2003. The first quarter earnings announced today beat Wall Street’s estimates by a penny. The Hopkinton, […]

Richard Green, the executive who exited Sun Microsystems after it settled with Microsoft almost two weeks ago, has landed at a utility computing start-up. The former head of Sun’s software tools division has joined Cassatt, a San Jose, Calif.-based infrastructure software start-up headed by BEA co-founder and former CEO Bill Coleman, who was also once […]