Clint Boulton

Looking for elbow room in the crowded enterprise storage market, Gateway used the annual Comdex show in Las Vegas Tuesday as its soapbox to launch a slew of new storage products. The Poway, Calif.-based company, which held a consumer electronics-oriented media event last week in New York City in which it alluded to the major […]

Open-source database software maker MySQL AB has released a new, more powerful complement to its MySQL flagship database. Called MaxDB version 7.5.00.06, the latest release, which was built on database assets it acquired from SAP in May, is more robust than MySQL’s main product and also boasts such features as stored procedures, triggers and views, […]

IBM has brought blade servers into the realm of 64-bit computing with its first blade server based on its PowerPC architecture. The eServer BladeCenter JS20 system, unveiled Tuesday, employs the PowerPC architecture, used to power Apple G5s, giving customers an added dimension of choice for thin form factor computing, which conserves both space and energy […]

After a month-long inquiry, the European Commission (EC) Monday said it has ruled in favor of moving to a second phase analysis of Oracle’s hostile $7.5 billion takeover attempt of rival PeopleSoft, which could take as much as four months to complete. The decision comes on the heels of statements made by Oracle’s Executive Vice […]

MicroStrategy has become the latest business intelligence software maker to add reporting services to its product lines, joining rivals such as as Cognos, Business Objects, Hyperion and Actuate in the process. The Mclean, Va. maker of software that gauges customer and employee behavior to help better inform enterprises about their business decisions has now unveiled […]

Imagine a scenario where the memory stored in your digital camera or personal digital assistant is partially based one of the most flexible materials made by man: plastic. Scientists at HP Labs and Princeton University are excited a new memory technology that could store more data and cost less than traditional silicon-based chips for mobile […]

You can call it a “Mini-Me” supercomputer but just don’t call it Blue Gene Lite. IBM’s researchers don’t like that very much. IBM unveiled a smaller version of its highly-touted Blue Gene supercomputer Friday just in time to crack into the coveted Top 500 Supercomputing list and days before the annual Supercomputing 2003 event in […]

LSI Logic has decided to send its chips and storage products into new directions. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company will separate its storage systems operations from its semiconductor business and create an independent storage systems company. The independent company will be based upon LSI Logic’s subsidiary, LSI Logic Storage Systems, which is currently reported as a […]

Microsoft continued to peel away the blinds covering its pending “Yukon” SQL Server version of its database software Wednesday with the introduction of new enhancements to the company’s database administration technology. Announced at the annual 2003 Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Community Summit in Seattle, the improved SQL Server extract, transform and load (ETL) […]

The Liberty Alliance Wednesday published the second phase of its specifications for its federated identity framework for Web services with founding member Sun Microsystems leading the way. The systems vendor also announced the first five companies who are supporting the specs in its products, starting with itself. The other four are Sun, UK-based wireless carrier […]

Continuing its evolution to become a more rounded computer systems provider for the enterprise, Dell Tuesday unveiled its own bag of server management tools. Leveraging new Microsoft software, Dell is retrenching for a showdown with rivals IBM and HP which Tuesday drew the curtain on new management software and services as part of its “Adaptive […]

With networking chip providers looking to amp the performance of hard disk drives (HDDs) at the request of the HDD manufacturers who need to compete, Agere Systems Tuesday said it just made sense to join forces with HDD maker Maxtor to co-create a Serial ATA (SATA) system-on-a-chip (SoC). Often used in consumer electronics devices, SoC […]