Clint Boulton

Computers that can think for themselves? It’s an old question, albeit not a fair one. Computers are programmed. They do what they are programmed to do. But IBM is looking to change some of that thinking with a philosophy that enables machines to manage and improve their own operations with little or no tinkering from […]

EMC and Hitachi , whose subsidiaries compete with EMC in the storage sector, Tuesday settled pending patent infringement litigation. Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC had been in legal spats with rival Tokyo’s Hitachi over the last year, but now it seems the companies have patched things up well enough to the point that the settlement includes five-year […]

While an exciting technology for software developers, grid computing — which entails the application of the resources of many computers to a single problem at the same time – is hardly a solid or secure one. Myriad standards are being worked through by organizations, such as the Global Grid Forum, actually implementing them is a […]

BEA Systems Monday plans to unveil the latest version of its WebLogic Platform, which company representatives claim will help it vault “two generations of technology ahead” of the competition. The San Jose, Calif.-based software maker will draw the curtain on BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 at the BEA eWorld 2003 Conference show in Orlando, Fla. According […]

IBM enhanced its WebSphere Business Integration software portfolio Monday, adding the modeling and monitor assets of its Holosofx acquisition from last September to make it more attractive for the enterprise. Business integration software combines various functions — such as customer relationship management (CRM) and order processing — to ensure that business processes flow across a […]

At a Sun Microsystems product event two weeks ago, Sun President and CEO Scott McNealy said his company was eschewing the gradual rollout approach for four quarterly “megalaunches” of major technology solutions. But there are special circumstances. The Santa Clara, Calif. firm Tuesday launched a different version of the 1280 it introduced to the public […]

IBM Wednesday expanded licensing and added subscription levels for its developerWorks Toolbox subscription. The Armonk, N.Y. firm also offered subscription-based pricing for some of its products ordered through the Toolbox. IBM’s logic for offering the toolbox, something of an online warehouse full of developers tools, is that software developers often need to do more than […]

Led by Oracle , members of the RosettaNet consortium announced the successful completion of software interoperability tests. RosettaNet is a non-profit organization whose goal is to implement standards for supply-chain transactions on the Internet. Supported along with Oracle by such members as Microsoft, IBM and Intel, it hashes out business-to-business (B2B) compatibility standards that many […]

Agere Systems has introduced a platform that makes speedy serial interfaces work for storage applications. Agere’s Serial Storage Interface Platform (SSIP) is a configurable serializer-deserializer (SERDES) which can be combined with Agere’s TrueStore read-channel technology to develop storage SoCs and controllers. The product allows hard disk drive and system manufacturers to moving from parallel interfaces […]

Sex.com Monday scoffed at VeriSign’s claims that the Internet is so unstable that the appellate court victory by Sex.com in its lawsuit against the registrar “would cripple the Internet and jeopardize the national economic benefit for e-commerce.” In the latest barb of the protracted legal battle between the adult content search engine and the Web’s […]

HP Monday triggered across-the-board improvements to its network-attached storage (NAS) portfolio and joined the iSCSI party by introducing software that enables server and storage connectivity to Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs) across an Ethernet network. According to Mark Nagaitis, director of product marketing, Infrastructure and NAS Division at HP, the NAS enhancements are a […]

In a continuation of its strategy to tighten security for its software products, Microsoft Friday unveiled a new technology for Windows Server 2003 that will help organizations better secure such confidential documents as financial reports. Designating rights for who can access what has become increasinly important following a year drenched in corporate scandals. The Redmond, […]