Clint Boulton

EMC formally launched its newest high-end storage array, a tiered storage box that can store one petabyte of data and help customers move files from smaller systems onto one machine. The company dropped the code name Symm 7 for the moniker Symmetrix DMX-3, a logical follow-up to the DMX-2 unveiled in February 2004. DMX-3 comprises […]

One of IBM’s supercomputers has just shattered performance goals by 10 percent in a recent test, topping out at 111 teraflops. This time, it isn’t a famed Blue Gene model with which the company has been shattering speed records. ASC Purple was created by the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration’s (DOE/NNSA) Advanced Simulation […]

EMC President and CEO Joe Tucci confirmed that the information systems vendor is upgrading its Symmetrix DMX storage server line next week. It’s the company’s latest move to try and distance itself from rivals such as IBM and Hitachi Data Systems in the high end of the data storage market. Analysts said the Hopkinton, Mass., […]

UPDATED: IBM plans to announce a significant strategic move in its server and storage systems group next Tuesday, internetnews.com has learned. The company has been hush hush about the news, which has been the subject of speculation and rumors for the past month since IBM began sending out invites to the New York City event. […]

EMC’s second quarter profit spiked 52 percent from the year-ago period, powered by sales in its booming services business, VMware virtualization software and mid-range Clariion storage hardware line. The information systems vendor, somewhat haunted by the rumor that Cisco would acquire the company, posted revenue of $2.34 billion in Q2, or 19 percent higher than the […]

Business intelligence software giant Business Objects plans to add financial planning and performance management software to its bag of applications, agreeing to acquire partner SRC Software for $100 million in cash. SRC develops software that helps medium to large organizations integrate systems for budgeting, payroll planning, consolidations and reporting. Such technology can be nearly impossible […]

Sun Microsystems is ratcheting up its partnership with Interwoven by agreeing to resell the company’s enterprise content management software. The Santa Clara, Calif., systems vendor will offer Interwoven’s whole Java-based product portfolio, which works with Sun’s Java Enterprise System software, Sun Fire enterprise servers and StorEdge products. Interwoven makes TeamSite, a platform for corralling all […]

IBM has shuffled its management deck after global services leader John Joyce left the computing giant for high-tech venture capital firm Silver Lake Partners. Mike Daniels, Ginni Rometty and Bob Moffat now head IBM Global Services as part of a move to better tailor the Armonk, N.Y., company’s large services staff with customer needs, confirmed […]

IBM is boosting its presence in the electronic forms business, agreeing to acquire PureEdge Solutions for an undisclosed sum. PureEdge, an IBM partner since 2002, makes software that takes corporate data on inventory, pricing and customer and presents it in a readable template. The Victoria, B.C., company offers design tools for designing high-end e-forms and […]

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has agreed to buy a HP supercomputing cluster to help develop advanced weapons systems. The DoD will install an HP Cluster Platform 4000 system at the Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC), based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Supercomputers often comprise several computing servers […]

The laundry list of supporters for multi-core chip processing continues to grow. Virtualization software maker VMware became the latest vendor to announce that its entire server product line will support dual-core processors. VMware GSX Server 3.2, which shipped this month, is the first VMware server product to support dual-core servers, followed by the Palo Alto, […]

Twenty-four-year-old Joshua Smith used to think the mainframe computer was on its way to becoming one big relic. “I was under the opinion that mainframe was kind of a dying breed; I had never heard of anybody using the mainframe,” Smith said. “Everbody got a PC.” But then he took an operating systems class at […]