Clint Boulton

Convinced that it can outsell Network Appliance and EMC with its scalable architecture, BlueArc introduced the Titan 2000 storage system family. BlueArc officials said the Titan 2100 storage system and the Titan 2200 storage system run as many as 100,000 operations per second. These speeds are twice the performance of BlueArc’s first Titan and three […]

Companies that have buttered their bread by sending free e-mail via AOL and Yahoo will soon have the option to pay to ensure their messages arrive at their target destinations. AOL in the coming months will begin charging a fraction of a penny or more per message in what they claim is an attempt to […]

Virtualization startup SWsoft wants to solve the challenge of moving virtual servers between physical servers without end-user disruption or the need for a storage server. The company’s tool for doing that? Virtuozzo for Linux 3.0, which features a “zero downtime migration” tool. The tool is designed to ensure that customers don’t go offline while they […]

Network Appliance is set to unveil additions to its storage portfolio that allow customers to corral their data without having to mess with their current infrastructure. The storage systems vendor Monday will introduce two new disk-to-disk backup storage appliances from its NearStore Virtual Tape Library (VTL) family. NetApp’s VTL machines act like tape libraries but […]

Forum Systems, which makes appliances to protect Web services transactions across firewalls, added some vulnerability-assessment and policy-compliance software to the mix when it acquired Kenai Systems this week. Rocklin, Calif.-based Kenai is a privately held maker of eXamine, a suite of security software tools tailored for Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOAs). Forum, which competes […]

VMware Monday plans to introduce a beta release of VMware Server, a free, hosted virtualization product for Windows and Linux servers designed to let users run several operating systems on one machine. Users who have never used virtualization before will be able to run virtual appliances for a number of Web servers, database servers, application […]

With the popularity of the AJAX snowballing in Internet businesses, IBM and several high-profile vendors have created the Open AJAX project to make the programming technology available on any hardware and software. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) is a technology that makes it easier to send or receive information over the Web. Users of AJAX-based […]

Oracle today said shareholders have accepted its $5.85 billion cash bid for Siebel Systems, making the company the top dog in the market for customer relationship management (CRM) software. Siebel stockholders who asked to receive Oracle stock will receive a combination of stock and cash because the stock portion of the consideration was oversubscribed, according […]

Microsoft is preparing users for the arrival of the Blackworm, a mass mailing malware variant expected to infiltrate and slam personal computers this Friday. The software vendor, which calls the socially inclined worm Win32/Mywife.E@mm, said the worm tries to lure users to open an attached file in an e-mail message. But if the recipient opens […]

Thanks to a court decision about the manner in which Access integrates with Excel, customers using Microsoft Office Professional 2003 and Microsoft Access 2003 are now required to install Office 2003 SP2 and a special patch. Microsoft officials this week began alerting customers via e-mail who use those software packages of the necessary upgrades, a […]

IBM today said it has made its i5 server line for small- and medium-sized businesses faster, employing its 2.2 gigahertz Power5+ dual-core chip in the machines to boost performance by a third. IBM also unveiled a new version of its iSeries operating system, i5/OS V5R4, which features better security and disaster-recovery features that help companies […]

When MySQL began offering its database under an open source license, some software experts predicted the startup would start a trend. Turns out they were right. IBM today said it is offering DB2 Express-C, a version of its database that server customers, developers and partners can download for free. The idea is to spur DB2 […]