Clint Boulton

Entrenched storage tape drive vendors Quantum and Storage Technology (StorageTek) have swapped patent infringement complaints in their local district courts. Milpitas, Calif.’s Quantum struck first this week, filing a complaint in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California alleging that StorageTek has engaged in the illegal making and selling of tape and tape […]

As some evidence that itsa cost-cutting efforts have paid off, EMC Wednesday reported a profit of $35 million, or two cents per share, compared to a loss of $77 million, or 3 cents per share this time a year ago. Revenue totaled $1.38 billion, a six percent gain over the with $1.3 billion reported a […]

While the mainframe business was the only one of its hardware segments to contract in the first quarter, IBM nonetheless has big hopes for that business to contribute to the overall bottom line by the end of the year, industry experts say. That is because the Armonk, NY-based global computing giant is set to release […]

The long-awaited, much-tinkered-with specification for ensuring easier management in disparate storage hardware and software was released to the public Tuesday at the Storage Networking World 2003 forum in Phoenix. The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) introduced version one of the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S Version 1.0), which was called Bluefin for more than a […]

After working in stealth mode for a couple years, Candera (formerly known as Confluence Networks) Tuesday unveiled the first of what it hopes will be many products — a storage controller for managing storage devices in a heterogeneous network. But while many firms craft similar devices for facilitating storage area networks (SANs) , the Milpitas, […]

Many of the country’s largest systems vendors and storage technology specialists have converged at the Storage Networking World 2003 event in Phoenix this week to announce new wares, or demonstrate how their existing products work with vital emerging standards. New products introduced Not surprisingly, many of the new products concern IP-based storage, and consist of […]

Microsoft Monday lent its support to a popular method for securing networks when it endorsed the Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) protocol for its pending Windows Server 2003. RADIUS is an official Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) authentication and accounting system used by many Internet Service Providers (ISPs). It is widely used for authenticating, […]

Business integration concern webMethods and business intelligence specialist Informatica have joined forces to create a software platform geared for integration — but with the benefits of business activity monitoring (BAM). Fairfax, Va.’s webMethods and Redwood City, Calif.’s Informatica unveiled their co-created Business Activity Platform (BAP) to address the convergence of integration technologies and meet customer’s […]

In an ongoing effort to cut costs, Brocade Communications Systems late Thursday laid off 115 employees, or 9 percent of its workforce. The San Jose, Calif.-based firm, a leading manufacturer of storage area network (SAN) switches that forward data packets across local area networks (LANs), said the company has retained a worldwide staff of 1,200 […]

IBM this week announced a number of new software and services aimed at bringing its Linux, on-demand and autonomic computing strategies to the fore. Perhaps the most eye-catching of the slew of news at its DeveloperWorks Live! 2003 show in New Orleans, was Big Blue’s strategy to help developers cope with ancient spaghetti code that […]

Seeking to fill what it perceives as a gap in the marketplace, IBM Thursday rolled out a new Linux package for developers of the open-source operating system at its DeveloperWorks Live! 2003 show in New Orleans. IBM Integrated Platform Express (code-named “Blue Ice”), a combination of the Armonk, N.Y. firm’s hardware servers and application server […]

JBoss Group has integrated its free application server with a performance management suite from Borland Software , a move that further positions its application server as an alternative to proprietary products from BEA and IBM. JBoss said it has made JBoss 3.0 easier to use by incorporating Borland’s Optimizeit Suite for Java. The move is […]