Clint Boulton

EMC said it will make rival Sun Microsystems Solaris 10 operating system run on its storage platforms, a symbol of the spirited cooperative competition in the high-tech industry. EMC will also make some of its storage management software work with Solaris 10. This includes PowerPath data automation and Legato NetWorker backup and recovery software, as […]

Next week’s JavaOne show is expected to inspire a lot of talk about service-oriented architectures (SOA). And Oracle plans to be right in the middle of it all by giving away a JDeveloper 10g kit free to all developers. The move is both surprising and unsurprising. Free software tools have been all the rage in […]

IBM is doing more than putting data integration company Ascential in its back pocket for safe keeping. Big Blue is tucking the $1.1 billion acquisition into its middleware folds in new ways, wrapping together two major products in a beta to see if they mesh well for customers. The Armonk, N.Y., systems vendor has wrapped […]

HP trotted out new two-processor servers and blades based on dual-core AMD Opteron chips. The release comes three months after the company issued four-processor ProLiant machines to coincide with AMD’s dual-core Opteron 800 Series launch. At the time, HP made good on its promise to deliver systems that support the AMD Opteron 200 Series for […]

IBM’s Blue Gene machines held the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the illustrious Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. No. 1 is BlueGene/L, which doubled in size since it was last crowned king in November. The machine now clocks in at 136.8 teraflops , or trillion calculations per second, according […]

SOA Software and Systinet upgraded their Web services management software Platforms to improve their speed and ability to process more messages. SOA Software said Service Manager version 3.0, which monitors Web services and XML transactions in an SOA to detect and correct errors, has been significantly improved to meet “the most extreme demands placed on […]

Cisco Systems delivered on its promise to deliver computer networking via software with new blade servers and applications that ensure messages flow unfettered across a network. The move officially enters the networking giant in the application-oriented networking (AON) sector, an emerging field designed to make it easier for computing gear to process chunky application messages […]

EMC is sprucing up its storage software that harnesses files and corralls them for long-term archival. The information systems vendor added virtual pooling and new replication perks to its Centera content-addressed storage (CAS) system. The pooling allows Centera to serve as a central archive that stores the fixed content of e-mail, documents and images, gathered […]

HP has upgraded its storage file system software to transfer and store more data at a faster rate on Linux clusters. The product, HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share (HP SFS), eases bandwidth burdens by distributing files simultaneously across server and storage clusters. SFS can span dozens to thousands of clustered Linux servers, making it ideal […]

Sun Microsystems ratcheted up its identity management portfolio by offering two new products that help corporations extend secure access to outside partners and suppliers. Called Java System Federation Manager and Java System Identity Manager Service Provider Edition, the products allow customers to deploy ID management and user provisioning for applications and computer gear outside their […]

UPDATED: In what is considered one of the largest security breaches, MasterCard International said information on more than 40 million credit cards lay exposed at credit card processor CardSystems Solutions. Exposed data included holder names, banks and account numbers. No Social Security numbers, birth dates or other personal information were stored on the accounts. Roughly […]

Eighteen months after its grid computing Database 10g product took to the streets with a fervor, Oracle is pounding the pavement again with the second release of the software. Database 10g Release 2 (R2) includes increased XML support, tighter security and more automation, perks that Oracle officials said should give the product a leg up […]