Clint Boulton

HP filled holes in its new Integrity and ProLiant Itanium 2 server lines Monday, adding 8-way and 16-way midrange servers and a 4-way high density machine to the former line and new small-and medium-sized business (SMB) servers to the latter. The Integrity series now ranges from low end 2-way systems to the high performance 64-way […]

To say mergers and acquisitions and strategic activity in the storage space is heating up is a gross understatement, especially when the conversation involves EMC . The Hopkinton, Mass. company has unleashed a flurry of news regarding its new push for information lifecycle management (ILM), which is perhaps the hottest phrase uttered since Web services […]

Sun Microsystems and Texas Instruments (TI) Thursday said they have teamed up to create Java-based wireless applications for 2.5G and 3G networks. Santa Clara, Calif.’s Sun and Dallas-based TI have indicated they believe their partnership will spark demand for converged voice and wireless multimedia devices among consumers while simultaneously helping handheld device makers and wireless […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) this week took the lid off of the latest advances to the long-awaited Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), a universal problem-solving standard that helps storage products from various vendors function together under one manageable interface. Ideally, vendors such as IBM and EMC would make their flagship products SMI-S-compliant, meaning […]

In keeping with its company-wide Trustworthy Computing pledge to stave off security problems by minimizing vulnerabilities, Microsoft said this week that it plans to switch off its Windows Messenger service and activate Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) by default on XP boxes. Windows Messenger — not to be confused with the Redmond, Wash. software vendor’s MSN […]

Storage vendors such as EMC and Hitachi Data Systems have been pounding the tables of late, proclaiming that they have the answer to the compliance bugbear that many corporations have been faced with in the past couple of years with the passage — or pending passage — of federal regulations that require documents to be […]

AmberPoint Tuesday unveiled the next piece to its strategy to gain developer mindshare by launching a developer’s edition of its Web services management platform that is tailored for the Microsoft .NET framework to let users seamlessly manage Web Services right from Visual Studio. AmberPoint Express provides includes performance feedback, monitoring and logging, as well as […]

Oracle continued its commitment to Linux and one of the open-source operating system’s leading purveyors when it announced that its database has been optimized for Red Hat’s latest platform, Enterprise Linux 3. Longtime partners Red Hat and Oracle worked together to boost the scalability and performance of its recently-unveiled Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 for […]

Sun Microsystems continued its spate of utility computing technology pacts Tuesday when it agreed to rent its N1 architecture to CGI Group (CGI), which plans to craft a life sciences solution to sell pay-as-you-go services to its customers. The agreement, for which financial terms were not made public, is the third such agreement between Santa […]

Hitachi Data Systems entered the battle for information lifecycle management (ILM) against rivals EMC and HP and filled out gaps in its storage software portfolio by adding provisioning, automation and management capabilities with the help of startup AppIQ. HDS, a division of Tokyo’s Hitachi , said its new solutions to provide “data lifecycle management” are […]

Symantec continued its raft of acquisition attempts and its pushed into the management software space when it moved to purchase ON Technology for $100 million in cash. ON Technology shareholders will receive $4 per share according to terms of the deal. The Cupertino, Calif.-based security software provider is interested in Waltham, Mass,-based ON Technology’s infrastructure […]

IBM plans to preview enhancements to its DB2 database software to help programmers simplify and automate the development of Microsoft .NET applications. The Armonk, N.Y., computing giant disclosed the fruits of its labor, code-named “Stinger,” ahead of Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Conference in Los Angeles but those interested may sample the tools Monday when the show […]