Clint Boulton

QLogic, which makes adapters for fibre channel networks and switches, agreed to sell its hard disk drive controller and tape drive controller business to chipmaker Marvell Technology Group for $225 million. QLogic’s hard drive and tape drive controllers, which power arrays from EMC, HP, IBM and others, make up 25 percent of its revenues. CEO […]

IBM’s research division unveiled new software that helps car manufacturers and fleet owners sift through a glut of data about their vehicles, sniff out trends and improve warranty coverage. Called Quality Insight Solution, the software helps workers in the automotive industry search for structured and unstructured data stored on anything from corporate databases to personal […]

Microsoft has taken WinFS, an advanced relational file system designed for the Windows operating system, to its first beta. WinFS effectively glues the database indexing capabilities of Microsoft’s SQL Server database with the computer file system so that users can easily save and search for files, from photos to e-mail to documents and media. WinFS […]

Hoping to find placement for its software among customers with constrained budgets, HP said it will offer a new configuration tool to help IT administrators automate the deployment of resources across their computer systems. HP OpenView Client Configuration Manager will help administrators find installed hardware and software on a network of PCs, as well as […]

Interest in newer server offerings is stimulating growth in server sales, which grew 5.6 percent year over year to $12.2 billion in the second quarter of 2005. IBM again lead the pack, with 31.9 percent of the market in the second quarter. While Big Blue grew its server sales 4.1 percent from the same period […]

IBM entered the red-hot scramble for continuous data protection with software that lets corporate employees save their data from corruption and outages milliseconds after it is created. IBM’s Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files backs up Word documents, presentations and spreadsheets on company servers, tape drives, or memory cards in real-time. Mike Nelson, IBM’s director […]

The idea of multi-core processing has already caused several vendors to change their pricing models in 2005, but some researchers say that trend is only the beginning. IDC analysts said in a new report that the practice of putting two or more processors on a single chip will lead to new revenue opportunities for vendors […]

Perpetrators are using Web sites in China to breach computer networks in the Department of Defense (DoD) and other U.S. agencies, according to U.S. officials. While classified systems have not yet been breached, officials are concerned because bits of information pieced together can provide an enemy with useful windows into the U.S. government’s methods, U.S. […]

Sun Microsystems software partner CDO2 has completed a trial deployment of its financial services software on the Sun Grid computing utility, becoming the first Sun software partner to confirm that the plan is a viable computing option. CDO2 Director Gary Kendall said his company let its customers license computing power at $1 per CPU per […]

IBM announced the xSeries 260, a four-processor machine geared to power remote offices that require large amounts of storage and local backup of crucial information. The machine is 7U (1u = 1.75 inches) and lets customers include up to twelve 3.5-inch Serial Attached Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI) disk drives for greater capacities and faster […]

Fresh off a strong quarter server and storage sales, HP has secured a technology contract to prop up visual effects works for Lucasfilm. Specific financial terms of the deal were not made public, though HP said the deal with the producer of the “Star Wars” films, is a multi-million-dollar contract spanning three years. HP’s Workstations […]

BEA Systems’ $200 million bid for software maker Plumtree hardly came as a surprise to analysts, some of whom see the purchase as the tolling of the bell for the standalone portal makers. Since 1996, Plumtree has been one of the most successful providers of portals, which provide a window view into corporate IT systems […]