Clint Boulton

UPDATED: Sun Microsystems took great steps to fortify its information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy today by agreeing to acquire Storage Technology for $4.1 billion in cash. The move should plug any holes in Sun’s storage portfolio, improving the Santa Clara, Calif., company’s ability to manage information from the time it is created until it is […]

Quest Software became the latest management software vendor to bid for products that dole out identity policies, with its push to buy Vintela for $56.5 million in cash. Vintela makes management software that helps non-Windows-based software work with products in Microsoft’s broad application arsenal. Specifically, Vintela’s products make it possible for Microsoft’s Active Directory, Group […]

Inching along in its “pay as you grow” computing strategy, IBM has built a new server that uses four Intel processors and scales up to 32 processors in an eight-chassis configuration. The box is built to scale for environments that require “always-on” computing for industries such as financial services, government and healthcare. The x460 can […]

UPDATED: Hewlett-Packard has popped Intel’s Itanium chips into its NonStop computers and offered its last PA-RISC processor in order to boost the performance of its high-end servers. HP is moving its NonStop server line into its Integrity family with the new Integrity NonStop servers, which combine the always-on availability of the NonStop machines with the scalability […]

UPDATED: Brocade is preparing to ratchet up its competitive battle with Cisco in the market for storage networking gear. In a departure from its basic storage switch strategy, the company has constructed new application infrastructure software that helps companies manage heavy data loads and meet service delivery and accountability promises. The idea is to help […]

Gateway is poised to unveil three new servers that improve a small organization’s ability to run applications and database operations. The machines, scheduled to be announced Tuesday, include the Gateway 9715 server, 9315 storage server and 9415 storage server. The Irvine, Calif., company is targeting small businesses, government agencies and even schools, according to Gateway […]

When it comes to compliance regulations, the one that seems to strike the most fear into the hearts of company executives is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Nicknamed Sarbox, and sometimes SOX, the stringent regulation was created to provide control over corporate governance, disclosure and financial accounting in the auditing community after the Enron and […]

HP is making a comeback in server sales after a challenging 2004 campaign and a high-profile CEO change. For the first quarter 2005, HP inched closer to IBM with worldwide server systems revenue of 27.6 percent compared to Big Blue’s 28.3 percent share, according to researcher IDC. The Palo, Alto, Calif. systems vendor, which grew […]

NEW YORK — Eben Moglen is convinced the software industry is returning to being about a free exchange of ideas and code. The lawyer for the Free Software Foundation said during a keynote at the LinuxWorld Summit that the IT world will return to a time before large businesses co-opted freely licensable software for proprietary […]

Communications chipmaker Agere Systems has created a new line of processors that speeds up the way data, music and video files get accessed and stored on a home or small business network. Agere is releasing the portfolio, dubbed NASn01, to help home and small business users stream multimedia files at 1 gigabit (Gb) per second. […]

NEW YORK — Finnish phone maker Nokia today introduced a Linux-based computing device that provides speedy Web access over Wi-Fi technology. The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, a departure for the communications company because it doesn’t include a phone, will allow consumers on the go to tap into broadband services anywhere within the range of a […]

AMD has published the first draft of its hardware virtualization technology, making the Pacifica specification available for public review. Pacifica is AMD’s plan to run software in its computer chips to forge virtual partitions that can render multiple operating systems and applications on one computer. The technology is designed to spruce up 64-bit client and […]