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Network equipment maker Ciena Thursday said it has inked a definitive agreement to acquire long-distance storage service provider Akara Corp. in a deal totaling $45 million in stock and cash. Linthicum, Md.’s, Ciena, which competes with the likes of fellow infrastructure equipment makers Cisco , Lucent and Nortel , also announced third-quarter earnings along with […]

Nokia Tuesday sought to broaden its horizons for online gaming when it purchased the rights to Sega.com for an undisclosed amount and unveiled its first service using features from its new acquisition. A leading mobile phone maker who sees gaming on its gadgets as the key to future success, Finland’s Nokia made the move to […]

IBM fought back against SCO Group in the high-stakes battle over Linux, filing a lawsuit late Wednesday in a Utah court claiming that SCO’s case breaches contract with IBM, infringes on its patents and signifies unfair competition, among other things. IBM also said SCO’s suit is invalid because Linux is covered in the General Public […]

NEW YORK — Data storage requires “evolutionary” technologies — not those that are revolutionary. That was the gospel EMC spread Wednesday, when executives detailed what they believe is the future of the data storage market lies and said it expects revenue growth rate to lie somewhere in the “mid-teens” at an analyst conference here. Bolstered […]

Who said Linux can only be used for smaller enterprise tasks? Mountain View, Calif.’s SGI Tuesday revealed that its high-performance servers will soon employ 128 processors in a single instance of running Linux in the hopes of testing the limits of the open-source operating system for eventual commercial use. SGI, which already provides Linux-based Altix […]

IBM Tuesday said it has agreed to use VA Software’s SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.3 software for to serve the more than 2000 open source developers in its internal open source group. IBM’s internal open source community is an online collaboration resource for developers working to improve the serviceability, security, availability and standards for enterprise-targeted Linux. […]

Ascential Software Monday inked an agreement to purchase Mercator Software for $106 million in a merger of enterprise data integration software makers. The purchase, for which Ascential Software will commence a cash tender offer of $3 a share for Mercator stock, will help Ascential offer a data integration product suite with an emphasis on transactions […]

Claiming it sees significant growth in its Linux business, BEA Systems revved its Linux engine into a higher gear Monday by expanding its partnerships with HP and Red Hat for the open-source operating system. While it’s partnership with HP runs deep, San Jose, Calif.’s BEA has allied with the Palo Alto, Calif. company on Web […]

Sun Microsystems Monday sped up one of its most successful servers, drilling deeper into the price/performance ratio war it is waging with Unix server rivals HP and Dell . The Santa Clara, Calif. vendor’s Sun Fire V480 server now has 22 percent more processing power than the last iteration of its four-processor machine, thanks to […]

Continuing its sweeping treatment of integration software across its WebSphere line, IBM Monday unveiled refreshed a product to help business-to-business (B2B) trading companies merge internal applications for greater efficiency. B2B business trading communities are often hectic environments where partners, suppliers, and customers go to do business. Because so many different parties are taking part in […]

Like one of the last dinosaurs, StorageNetworks clung on until the end, but it just wasn’t enough. The provider of storage services fell under the weight of a market that had rendered it and vendors like it obsolete, filing a plan to liquidate yesterday. The site is now dark and the Waltham, Mass., company has […]

On the same day that HP formally proposed a Web services management plan to standards body OASIS this week, IBM and Computer Associates (CA) announced a schema that deals with similar issues of shepherding software services to interoperable functionality. However, while HP unveiled its Web Services Management Framework (WSMF) more than a week ago to […]