Clint Boulton

IBM is convinced certain vertical industries are looking for blade server packages. The systems vendor’s latest foray? A BladeCenter system tailored to help financial services firms and banks consolidate the computing gear they use into one system. The system, also designed to help retail banks make sure branches stay in the loop in the face […]

Several companies have banded together to facilitate the proliferation of phones equipped with Linux. The Linux Phone Standards (Lips) Forum launched today with an oath to write open Application Programming Interfaces and create new services to spread the use of Linux in smartphones, handheld computers and other mobile devices. The founding members of Lips include […]

IBM scored something of a trifecta today when the Top500 supercomputing project revealed that Big Blue’s machines take up three of the first 10 spots on the list. Researchers for the Top500 group, a project started in 1993 to track trends in high-performance computing, released the 26th edition of the Top500 list at the Supercomputing […]

The last several months have been something of a blur for Business Objects CEO John Schwarz. In July, he was president of security software giant Symantec, closing the $10.5 billion purchase of storage software maker Veritas. Two months later, he took over for Business Objects CEO Bernard Liautaud, who stepped into the chairman role. One […]

EMC is beginning to show some serious progress in its integration of Smarts, the management software specialist it purchased earlier this year for $260 million. The Hopkinton, Mass., vendor this month will start shipping Application Connectivity Monitor 2.0 (ACM), a piece of software that automatically pinpoints potentially damaging incidents on a network without intervention from […]

Five major Linux supporters are backing a new company whose goal is to acquire patents and offer them royalty-free in order to extend open source operating systems worldwide. The Open Invention Network (OIN) launched today with undisclosed financial backing from IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony, according to the companies. The company’s members said […]

Just days after Greg Maffei said he was vacating the CFO spot at Oracle amid rumors of in-fighting, Liberty Media announced it was hiring him as president and CEO. Known as a skilled financial man, Maffei could be a much-needed shot in the arm for media holding company Liberty, which today also announced a loss […]

HP today began offering Application Modernization Services to help bring customers’ legacy software closer to Web services and service-oriented architectures. The Palo Alto, Calif., company’s new services, which fit into its SOA plan to help customers craft distributed computing networks, include porting and migrating applications to newer, less expensive platforms, said Paul Evans, worldwide director […]

The Liberty Alliance Project formed the Strong Authentication Expert Group (SAEG) to promote trusty authentication across disparate pieces of hardware and software on a computer network. Liberty, whose goals include ensuring safe Web transactions on computers, created SAEG to write Identity Strong Authentication Framework (ID-SAFE) for promoting authentication across computer networks. SAEG, which is made […]

IBM unleashed new network-attached storage (NAS) systems to help businesses preserve data across distributed networks. The IBM System Storage N5200 and N5500, the latest fruits of IBM’s agreement to resell hardware and software from Network Appliance, were built to help small- to medium-sized enterprises run disk-to-disk backup, data retention and archive chores using write-once, read […]

There’s a new Semantic Web group in town. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has formed the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) working group with the job of standardizing the rules that propel data across the Web, regardless of format. Rules are a cornerstone of the Semantic Web, the idea that the Internet can be tapped […]

HP is targeting the data center market with PC blades that offer to curb IT ownership costs while improving data security. Tad Bodeman, director of PC blade and thin client solutions for HP, said the HP bc1500 blade PC is based on HP BladeSystem technology and powered by AMD’s Athlon 64 chip, which consumes relatively […]