Clint Boulton

Storage networking leader Brocade Communications Systems  is set to unveil a major refresh to its SilkWorm storage area network (SAN) and Tapestry file services product lines at an analyst event in New York Tuesday. The company, which is in the midst of acquiring long-time rival McData Corp., is intent on building on its already large […]

Reporter’s Notebook: It’s been more than a year and a half since HP CEO Mark Hurd took the helm at HP , and the company has been humming along nicely. A string of purchases and a few events to celebrate the company’s new technology have put some vigor back into the company. This was apparent […]

For IBM , the virtualization pipeline continues to flow fat and steady. The systems vendor today trotted out virtualization software that lets companies install software on tens of thousands of laptops, desktop PCs, wireless devices and servers. Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM), which the company fashioned after it absorbed Rembo Technology in May, helps clients whittle […]

NEW YORK — HP  today fortified its Total Care portfolio for the lifecycle of computers, unveiling new desktops, enhanced notebooks, a workstation and software to manage them at a media event here. Officials from the computer maker’s Personal Systems Group outlined a “Taking Care of Business” promise to make personal computing personal again, and return […]

If you’re an IT manager charged with making sure hundreds or even thousands of personal computers are running tip-top, chances are good your staff has better things to do than to flit from machine to machine for updates. That’s where HP’s  OpenView Client Configuration Manager 2.0 comes in. The new, Premium Edition version of the […]

Semiconductor sales rallied to $20.1 billion in July, an 11.5 percent from July 2005, said the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) in its latest report. The July sales were a small increase of 1.8 percent from the $19.8 billion in sales reported in June 2006. SIA President George Scalise said consumer purchasing patterns account for the […]

Intergraph Corporation , a leading maker of mapping and visualization software, agreed to be acquired for $1.3 billion by an investor group led by Hellman & Friedman LLC and Texas Pacific Group. Intergraph, of Huntsville, Ala., provides software and services for homeland security, energy, chemical, and shipbuilding infrastructure design markets. This type of software, dubbed […]

Nortel today said it has agreed to sell its UMTS access business to Alcatel for $320 million, the latest step in the networking giant’s plan to shed businesses it doesn’t expect will lead the market. Short for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, UMTS is a 3G mobile technology that pipes voice, data, audio and video to […]

Intel  is no longer the sole star of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 show. Microsoft Corp.  today trotted out the second beta of Windows Server Virtual Server 2005 service pack 1 (SP1), a version that supports virtualization features on AMD and Intel processors. Beta one of the product supported Intel virtualization from the get-go; R2 SP1 […]

UPDATED: AT&T said it would pay for credit monitoring services to customers whose data could be compromised after hackers broke into its system and accessed credit card information for about 19,000 customers. The company said it discovered the breach last weekend for its online DSL services. Someone apparently broke into the system and glimpsed personal […]

The integration of StorageTek continues for Sun Microsystems . The systems vendor said it has added the TekCare best practices and service models from StorageTek to its own SunSpectrum service offering, dubbing the combined offering Sun StorageTek Service Plans. The Sun StorageTek Service Plans combine the best of both the TekCare and SunSpectrum programs, including […]

Looking to shore up their position against Microsoft and Yahoo in the fiercely competitive market for Internet advertising services, Google and eBay struck a multi-year deal to work together on text-based and click-to-call advertising. Financial terms of the deal, which mirrors one Yahoo lined up with eBay in May, were not disclosed. Google and eBay […]