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Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina opened the company’s annual analyst meeting Tuesday by blasting the idea that HP is “stuck” between competitors IBM and Dell in key IT categories. The CEO also refused to confirm a report that HP plans to combine its profitable consulting group with a struggling unit that sells computer hardware to businesses. […]

A handful of flash memory drive makers Monday announced an alliance to educate the public on the benefits of using USB flash drives, which are tiny devices capable of storing files such as digital photos or music files. Founding members Samsung Semiconductor, Genesys Logic, Kingston Technology, Lexar Media and PNY Technologies have formed the core […]

Computer Associates International Monday joined a batch of smaller software vendors Monday when it unveiled its first Web services management platform. The Islandia, N.Y., company’s Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) is the latest entry in a crowded but consolidating space. CA built the platform, which ensures proper distribution of software services across the enterprise, […]

How can XML applications written by disparate parties work in harmony? The answer may come as early as next week in a flurry of demonstrations by top-tier vendors. The foundation language for Web services , which allow applications to talk to one another, Extensible Markup Language (XML) serves as the backbone for many of the […]

Third-quarter sales of disk storage systems were down slightly to $4.8 billion compared to last year, but price cuts bode well for the market, research firm IDC said. Figures point to relatively soft demand with IDC showing a modest 36 percent growth year-over-year to 197 petabytes shipped in Q3, when revenues slipped 0.3 percent. John […]

Sun Microsystems has unveiled a roadmap to the latest version of its NetBeans tools framework for the development of Java applications. The release of the NetBeans Application Framework comes a day after the Santa Clara, Calif.-based systems vendor decided to join the Java-focused open source development group Eclipse, which makes a rival software development platform. […]

Sun Microsystems has refused an offer to join the Eclipse consortium in a move industry watchers say could further polarize the industry’s attempt to unite Java development efforts to combat Microsoft’s .NET. Eclipse is an open standards-based development community specializing in the creation of Java applications. IBM, which pumped $40 million in seed money when […]

Red Hat is on the verge of completing a crucial certification process that could help it extend the tendrils of its enterprise Linux operating system further in the government sector, where multi-billion dollar budgets abound. The Raleigh, N.C. maker of open-source software said its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is poised to meet Evaluated Assurance […]

In an aggressive bid to capture customers from rival storage systems maker EMC , IBM has launched a new migration program and a Linux-based appliance to replace EMC storage servers with IBM storage servers. IBM and EMC compete alongside Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) in the market for enterprise class storage boxes that house and maintain […]

HP Wednesday said it would bundle Linux-based blade servers from a specialist provider into its own portfolio that targets telecommunications service providers in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. Palo, Alto, Calif.’s HP said it plans to resell blade servers from Hillsboro, Ore.’s RadiSys . The lines support the open source Linux operating system. Financial […]

IXOS Software’s board of directors Tuesday blessed a $250 million acquisition bid from larger enterprise content management (ECM) player Open Text as the ECM space continues to consolidate. The deal could make Open Text, which also bought a 75 percent interest in Germany’s Gauss Interprise, the largest power in the ECM space. Open Text’s strength […]

Network Appliance Tuesday plans to unveil new storage systems and software at its annual analyst meeting to demonstrate the company’s progress toward a “storage grid” architecture. The use of grid technology to throw resources from many computers at a task at once is becoming increasingly prevalent in today’s information technology realm. With Oracle making it […]