Clint Boulton

A new standard for querying and managing data and metadata in Java-based online analytical processing (OLAP) servers and databases is approaching its final draft, the Java Community Process (JCP) said Monday. The JCP Expert Group for the Java OLAP Interface (JOLAP) recently concluded a 60-day public review of their specification for multidimensional data management and […]

As previously announced, IBM took its much ballyhooed new application server live Monday, packed with a number of advancements that are geared to appeal to IT workers seeking advanced Web services features. As with its DB2 v8.1 package, launched last week, Big Blue’s WebSphere Application Server Version 5 features some souped up Web service capabilities, […]

Dell finally made good on its promise of delivering blade servers to the market Monday when it shipped its PowerEdge 1655MC, which is targeted for data centers, server consolidation projects, thin-client computing and high-performance clusters. Austin’s Dell said the blade server fits the slim, 3U (five-and-a-quarter inches) form factor, yet harnesses the performance of as […]

Faced with stale spending in information technology, Brocade Communications Systems said it has cut 12 percent of its work force and that sales should plummet in the first quarter. The San Jose-based storage fabric switchmaker expects to retain 1,200 employees after the work cuts, which was put into effect to cut back expenses. Brocade said […]

Seeking to pry market share from rivals Microsoft and Oracle , IBM Thursday launched a new version of its database software that bundles more of the autonomic capabilities the Armonk, N.Y. firm has been touting as a differentiator from the competition. IBM has tied the DB2 v8.1 news to the mast of its on-demand computing […]

HP bolstered its storage hardware and software portfolio Tuesday with new products and upgrades that make the management of multi-vendor storage easier. Following the trend toward creating interoperability among disparate storage products, Palo Alto, Calif.’s HP said its new and refreshed storage management software, tape, network storage and disk arrays are tuned to ENSAextended, the […]

Continuing its forward progress of building ultra-powerful machines for scientific organizations, IBM Corp. picked up a $290 million contract to build two supercomputers for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that sport a combined peak speed of 460 trillion floating operations per second, or teraflops. The deal, announced at the Supercomputing 2002 conference in Baltimore […]

During a time when managing disparate storage systems is key for luring customers, Dell Monday debuted three new storage systems geared for small- and medium-sized businesses and corporate workgroups. In the interest of supporting heterogeneous environments, Dell’s PowerVault 775N, 770N and 725N network-attached storage (NAS) systems enable the management of data between applications running Microsoft […]

Broadcom Monday unmasked new networking components it says will catapult blade server technology into the next generation — where 10 gigabit Ethernet looms large. The Irvine, Calif. networking chipmaker brought new ServerWorks System I/O server core-logic chipsets, gigabit Ethernet controllers, gigabit and Fast Ethernet transceivers, high-speed SerDes devices for backplanes and gigabit and Fast Ethernet […]

Looking to extend its supercomputing tendrils to better serve education, research and government facilities, Sun Microsystems Monday unveiled a new clustering technology aimed at ramping up data center operations. The Sun Fire Link interconnect, code-named Wildcat, supports throughput of 4.8 gigabytes per second and maxes out at more than a teraflop, or one trillion floating […]

Angling for more placement on the coveted Top 500 list, IBM and other vendors are busy preparing for battle with new supercomputers. Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM kicked off the festivities Friday with the latest iteration of its Deep Blue supercomputer (yes, very same that beat chess champion Garry Kasparov), the Unix-based eServer p655, which it claimed […]

After months of rancorous debate and wrangling over sticking points, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Thursday revised its patent policy, which lets W3C recommendations to be issued royalty-free. Published in the form of the “Last Call Working Draft,” the latest iteration means those who participate in the creation of a W3C recommendation must agree […]