Clint Boulton

IBM is teaming with the state of New York and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to pump $100 million into a supercomputing center dedicated to advancing nanotechnology. Researchers at the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) on the Rensselaer campus in Troy, N.Y. will focus on reducing the time and expenses associated with building materials, devices […]

Another brick in the wall of Web services standards fell into place this week. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) ratified Web Services Addressing 1.0 as a standard, removing another stumbling block on the road to interoperability among distributed computing systems. WS-Addressing introduces a way to specify the destination address, reply messages and faults in […]

EMC today purchased data-protection and replication software maker Kashya for $153 million in cash to improve its network virtualization and continuous data protection (CDP) products. EMC is targeting a hot sector. According to IDC, storage replication, in which stored or archived data is copied in real time as it moves across a storage area network […]

Dell today launched the PowerVault MD1000, an entry-level direct-attached storage (DAS) machine that uses 3.5-inch serial attached SCSI (SAS) drives for a performance boost. Currently, storage appliances comparable to the MD1000 use 2.5-inch SAS  drives. Though adequate for many types of storage, vendors have been considering a switch to the more powerful 3.5-inch drives, which […]

EMC has upgraded its Clariion line with a new architecture that supports the 4-gigabit-per-second (Gb/s) Fibre Channel technology, a move that promises greater storage performance. The new Clariion UltraScale architecture and CX3 series of networked storage systems also feature double the capacity of the CX2 series to help customers merge multiple types of files onto […]

For years, Network Appliance has been a major player in network-attached storage (NAS) and iSCSI, content to let other competitors soak up storage area network (SAN) market share to their hearts’ content. Those days are over. Network Appliance CEO Dan Warmenhoven said his company is going after EMC, HP and Hitachi Data Systems with guns […]

SOA Software, a rising standalone vendor in the SOA and Web services space, has bought Web services networking specialist Blue Titan for an undisclosed sum. Blue Titan makes Network Director, a package of message management and policy-based mediation software that helps developers build Web services networks. Network Director provides implementations of standards to help customers […]

NEW YORK — With placement on more than 90 percent of the world’s top 25 retail companies, who said the IBM mainframe is going the way of the dodo? That was the theme of a recent IBM System z mainframe software summit, where Executive Vice President Steve Mills, zSeries General Manager Jim Stallings and other […]

The International Standards Organization (ISO) blessed the OpenDocument Format (ODF) in a rousing 23-0 vote this week, making the digital document format a worldwide standard. ISO’s blessing is widely expected to serve as a springboard for ODF adoption around the globe. ODF, an alternative to proprietary formats, is an open standard that allows text, spreadsheet […]

Sun Microsystems countersued rival server startup Azul Systems for infringing on six patents, misappropriating trade secrets and breaking non-competition agreements. Sun is asking for a jury trial and requesting that Azul pay damages, punitive damages and that it be enjoined from making products with Sun technology. The latest legal arrow comes six weeks after Azul […]

IBM said it acquired partner BuildForge, a privately-held software development specialist that helps corporate customers meet compliance regulations. BuildForge’s Build Control, FullThrottle and Prism software help software programming teams quickly and easily chart what application was created, how it was created and where it ran. The combination of BuildForge and Rational software can help customers […]

Borland Software is doing more than juggling its software assets. The company today said it would let go of 300 employees, or 20 percent of its staff. It also plans to consolidate some of its operations overseas and sell off its developer tools unit in order to save $60 million in annualized expenses. Borland expects […]