Clint Boulton

Despite the clamor that utility computing is in the here and the now from vendors like IBM, HP and Sun Microsystems, the evidence just doesn’t support those claims, according to new research from The 451 Group. Some customers like the notion of drawing computing resources as if they are water or electricity. Some are actively […]

Reporter’s Notebook If there were a question of whether computing machines running multi-core processors can disrupt the current licensing landscape, Sun Microsystems answered it this week when it launched the new UltraSparc T1 machines. During a press event in New York at which Sun unveiled its eight-core, 32-thread UltraSparc T1 servers, Oracle President Chuck Phillips […]

Looking to improve an area where it has been traditionally weak, EMC next week will unveil a pack of new storage services, internetnews.com has learned. According to a company document seen by internetnews.com, the Hopkinton, Mass., information systems vendor will announce data erasures, a government-geared service and 24-7 services for its ControlCenter, Documentum and Networker […]

BEA Systems has upgraded its Java virtual machine with JRockit 5.0, revving it to run large server applications on Intel-based 64-bit machines. Part of WebLogic Enterprise Platform and WebLogic Server, JRockit is a popular software product in the financial services spaces, helping banks process transactions. Such products can form the core of service-oriented architectures (SOA) […]

BEA Systems said it plans to integrate its WebLogic Portal and AquaLogic User Interaction software lines and introduce new products next year for building service-oriented architectures (SOAs). BEA WebLogic Portal allows users to make portal Web pages and personalized application content for each portal user. The AquaLogic User Interaction product line, acquired in BEA’s purchase […]

NEW YORK — Sun Microsystems extended its open source policy to silicon, pledging to open up the architecture to its new UltraSparc T1 multi-core processor. Sun CEO Scott McNealy said during a press event here that Sun created the OpenSPARC project to foster greater adoption of computer systems based on the T1 architecture. OpenSparc was […]

Days after the California Superior Court granted Toshiba’s motion for a new trial in its ongoing legal suit with rival Lexar Media, Toshiba said it will appeal to a higher court to prove that it did not misuse NAND Flash trade secrets from Lexar. Last Friday, the court ordered a limited new trial regarding the […]

Determined to regain its swagger in the Unix server space, Sun Microsystems today will introduce new computing machines that pack a rack of cores on one chip to run Internet programs. The Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers, which CEO Scott McNealy will show off at a press event in New York this morning, include […]

If you think IBM would support a standard that could shake Microsoft’s desktop dominance, you’re right. Big Blue today agreed to support the OpenDocument Format for Office Applications (ODF) desktop standard in its next version of Workplace Managed Client, a rich-client office productivity suite for creating, editing and sharing word-processing, spreadsheet and other documents. ODF, […]

Rivals SOA Software and AmberPoint announced significant moves to improve their portfolios today, angling for leadership position in the growing market for software that manages a service-oriented architecture (SOA) . SOAs allow corporations to exchange Web services applications across disparate computing gear and reuse assets such as code and services. SOA Software, of Santa Monica, […]

Management software is a multi-billion-dollar market that shows no signs of slowing down. HP and IBM made sure of that by trotting out new software products to help customers get a better grip on the flow of their data. At HP’s Software Universe conference in Nice, France today, HP unleashed new IT service management software […]

Disk-based storage did well in the third quarter this year, as the size of the worldwide disk storage systems market grew at a record rate of 13.3 percent to $5.7 billion. IDC said sales grew a record 12.5 percent from the year-ago quarter to $3.9 billion, the best ever growth since the research company began […]