Clint Boulton

The American Electronics Association Wednesday released a report which found that more than half a million U.S. citizens lost their high-tech jobs from January 2001 to December 2002. Specifically, 560,000 workers employed at high-tech firms such as HP, IBM, or Lucent were laid off in the two-year period that saw the storied dot-com bubble burst. […]

Microsoft made good on its pledge to offer its own self-managing computer tools Tuesday when it unveiled new software to ensure that servers and PCs run more smoothly. The idea behind self-managing software is that it governs computer systems to maintain balance. For example, computers and networks often experience an ebb and flow in traffic, […]

The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Tuesday said it has transferred AspectJ — a nascent Java language extension to work around problems — to Eclipse because it has outgrown PARC in terms of how much more it can be developed in that organization. A toolkit crafted from the more broad software programming practice of Aspect […]

As mounting evidence that serial technologies are gaining momentum over their parallel brethren in the storage industry, Adaptec Monday launched a Serial ATA (SATA) product family that features motherboard solutions and RAID cards to connect PCs and servers to storage devices. Short for Redundant Array of Independent Disks, RAID is a category of disk drives, […]

Web services software has been heavily hyped for two years, but realistically, how much good are the products unless there is software to manage them? The focus of the niche is to make sure that computers communicate with one another more smoothly, but what happens when a breakdown occurs in that communication? Generally, systems fail. […]

In another indication that high-tech powers are not always on the same page where Web services are concerned, Sun Microsystems this week blasted Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems and TIBCO for publishing their own specification for Web Services reliability. Sun, along with Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, Oracle, Sonic Software, published a Web Services Reliability (WS-Reliability) specification in […]

To chief information officers, business integration software has become as important as the lifeboats on a cruise ship. It’s become that certain. With so much information, tying old legacy systems to cutting edge, technologically superior ones has become the Holy Grail for CIOs just as it is rapidly becoming the calling card of software infrastructure […]

Oracle Wednesday revamped a business integration tool that facilitates and manages data in business intelligence applications. Business intelligence is the gathering of as much pertinent data as possible to make better business choices. Applications that fall under its umbrella include those for decision support systems, query and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, […]

A week after BEA Systems added integration to its WebLogic platform, SeeBeyond Tuesday made its biggest technology overhaul since 1999 with the newest version of the SeeBeyond Integrated Composite Application Networks Suite, v5.0. SeeBeyond Senior Director of Corporate Marketing Richard Cramer said the revamped suite features an openness heretofore absent from the application integration suites […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Monday said it has begun the second phase of testing for the Storage Management Initiative (SMI) (née Bluefin). In development for a couple of years, SMI was created by SNIA members to facilitate interoperability across disparate storage systems, regardless of vendor. The standard is largely seen as the saving […]

Continuing to spur the momentum of Web services in all facets of computing, Boston’s OASIS said Monday it plans create a standard way of using Web services architecture and technology to manage distributed resources, such as grid and on-demand computing. The new OASIS Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Technical Committee was also created as a […]

For cash-strapped enterprises, saving space in the server room is as critical as ever, but can there really be three and a half-inch (2U) servers armed with four processors to save room without sacrificing computing punch? HP says yes. The Palo Alto, Calif. firm Monday said it has added a new member to its ProLiant […]