Clint Boulton

IBM secured a $125 million telematics deal with the United Arab Emirates to help curb the number of traffic accidents among the 2 million drivers in the country. Under the terms of the four-year accord, IBM engineers and business consultants will build a device that will attach to the automobile’s carriage. Similar to the “black […]

Cisco Systems is moving into grid computing with a deal to buy networking gear maker Topspin Communications for $250 million in cash and options. Privately-held Topspin is one of the top providers of switches designed to knit servers into a grid, adding network and storage in the process. The switches also provide a backbone for […]

UPDATED: Microsoft has released a beta of new disk-data protection software that provides near continuous data protection (CDP). The Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is designed to help corporations trim operational costs associated with the manual recovery of lost data, chores that can be onerous for IT workers. The software, which runs on […]

Middleware is gradually coming back from a few rough years, and it got some big help from Web services. Application integration and middleware (AIM) includes software used to integrate, connect or run applications. Middleware includes application servers, portals, message-oriented middleware (MOM) and transaction processing systems. The market expanded to $6.7 billion in 2004, according to […]

EMC next week will announce its most powerful network-attached storage (NAS) machine to take on NAS market leader Network Appliance, internetnews.com has learned. The Celerra NSX is an array that will host up to 8 blades that perform up to 300,000 network file system (NFS) operations per second, a source familiar with the company’s plans […]

The Liberty Alliance consortium, whose key members include Sun Microsystems , IBM and Intel , released blueprints to help software developers write secure, personalized Web services applications. The new interfaces include Web services for presence, contact book and geo-location. The specs are meant to be applied on Liberty’s Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF), a Web […]

Sun Microsystems is adding enterprise-grade virtualization utilities to its StorEdge 6920 operating system, code-named Unity 3.0. Storage virtualization allows customers to improve the way they manage information by lumping chunks of data into one large pool for easy access. Because the technology is expensive to craft, virtualization is often offered only in products that serve […]

IBM is looking to help automobile manufacturers and mechanics improve the way they pinpoint problems in vehicles with a new diagnostics service. The Parametric Analysis Center service lets groups develop reports and services to understand how a vehicle is performing or determine whether a trend is emerging among a group of vehicles that needs attention. […]

Microsoft agreed to pay Gateway $150 million over the next four years, stemming from the finding that the software giant’s practices had hurt the computer maker’s business. Microsoft said it will take pre-tax charges of $123 million in the quarter for its settlement with Gateway, $41 million for its settlement with Burst.com, as well as […]

VMware is going back to where it all started, updating its flagship desktop virtualization software with new tools for distributed computing, multiple snapshot and cloning. VMware Workstation 5.0 is a major new release of the company’s first product, created to speed software testing and deployment of applications for x86 operating systems such as Windows, Linux, […]

FineGround has taken its Web application delivery prowess to the storage space. The company began offering a new wide area file services (WAFS) system Monday that allows users to share and store files from one box in a data center. WAFS is an emerging field in the storage sector that lets users access a remote […]

BEA Systems Monday will unveil a new software platform that lets communications providers use Web services to improve the way they serve customers, internetnews.com has learned. The BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper will help developers write software that facilitates safe messaging, calling and billing services, according to a document obtained by internetnews.com. “The product provides a […]