Clint Boulton

Responding to the trend for intelligent switching storage platforms, startup MaXXan Systems Tuesday unveiled the MaXXan MXV320 SAN switching product, which pipes storage application functions such as virtualization and data replication as network services. The San Jose, Calif. company, taking their products public after two and a half years in stealth mode, also teamed with […]

A major event for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET kicked off Tuesday, with the Redmond, Wash. software power showing off enhancements for Visual Studio and additional partnerships for its touted development platform. New additions to the .NET family At its VSLive! San Francisco 2003 event, Microsoft unleashed public betas of five ASP.NET Starter Kits and a […]

Hungry to regain market share lost to HP and IBM, Sun Microsystems Monday unveiled its highly-anticipated Sun Fire V1280, a new midrange, rack-mounted Unix server available in four to 12 processing unit configurations. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based computer systems manufacturer also unveiled its blade servers for the first time, a faster, cooler UltraSPARC III 1.2Ghz […]

Determined to keep one of its oldest products from going stale, BEA Systems Monday refreshed its Tuxedo transaction processing platform, giving it Web services capabilities. George Gould, Director of Tuxedo Product Marketing, said although this is officially BEA Tuxedo 8.1, the platform is just as important as the original 8 release from 18 months ago […]

As the tide of Web services hype continues to ebb and flow, two major research firms this week published bullish studies on the extensively-covered sector. IDC claimed the market for Web services will top $21 billion by 2007, while rival Gartner’s Dataquest unit surveyed what products are making the biggest splashes in the enterprise. But […]

The storage sector got a little bit slimmer Wednesday as two publicly-traded players gobbled two privately-held concerns. Quantum inked a definitive agreement to acquire SANlight for $8.5 million, while Computer Associates International (CA) moved to buy Netreon for an undisclosed cash sum. Quantum, the Milpitas, Calif. tape drive manufacturer purchased software maker SANlight, in whom […]

Rallying on the finding by Dataquest that its business integration efforts represent a $10 billion market opportunity by 2006, IBM Tuesday revealed new data management software tailored to help customers integrate information in multiple locations as if it were stored in one location. DB2Information Integrator and DB2 Information Integrator for Content were forged in the […]

Sun Microsystems Tuesday is augmenting its Java platform by adding support for Web services technologies in its pending Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) version 1.4. Sun has full support on tap for the ” Basic Profile” specification, which was published by the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) to ensure that Web services component technologies, […]

Hoping to regain market share lost to competitors HP and IBM in the high-end storage space, EMC Monday debuted its highly-anticipated new line of Symmetrix storage servers supported by a new architecture. The Matrix and the event in NYC The Symmetrix DMX series is based on what the Hopkinton, Mass. storage specialist calls a “revolutionary” […]

San Jose, Calif.’s BEA Systems Monday revealed two new members of its application server family, as well as e-commerce channels to fuel its J2EE technology offerings. BEA WebLogic Express and BEA WebLogic Server, Workgroup Edition are tailored for the budget and application needs of departments of some 20 to 25 people, said Frazier Miller, Director […]

IBM isn’t passing up a chance to try to steal rival EMC’s thunder in the storage sector as it plans Monday to debut the Enterprise Storage Server Application Programming Interface (ESS API) for its latest high-end storage server. The announcement will fall on the same day EMC is widely expected to unfurl the curtain on […]

Sun Microsystems Thursday unveiled the roadmap for an initiative to create a complete platform to help vendors develop wireless services, such as messaging or gaming, for mobile phones. Java Technology for the Wireless Industry (JTWI), also known as Java specification request (JSR) 185, the plan was hashed out by the Java Community Process developer’s group […]