Clint Boulton

Network Appliance  has broadened its existing de-depulication software across its core storage systems. Ravi Thota, director of product marketing for data and storage management at NetApp, said single-instance storage (A-SIS) deduplication, once relegated in a conjoined offering with Symantec NetBackup, now works on FAS filers and NearStore R200 storage systems. Deduplication tools eliminate redundant data […]

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation today lifted the curtain on its next-generation storage array, a high-performance system that blends virtualization and thin provisioning to provide a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to storage. Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V is designed to help HDS gain ground in the high-end storage market versus EMC’s Symmetrix 3 and IBM’s DS8000 […]

Big Blue is going Big Green. Feel free to grimace at the new slogan IBM  is using to introduce Project Big Green, a broad initiative to offer ways to address rising energy costs hitting data centers. In case you haven’t heard, IBM is sprinkling $1 billion per year across its business lines and throwing 850 […]

Securent, a startup that makes software to regulate what corporate-data employees can access on their computers, has upgraded its platform with new support for databases and collaboration applications. The startup hopes its software will gain traction in the emerging entitlement management software market, where Securent, Oracle , BEA , CA  and others are trying to […]

Every now and then something happens in tech that poses a real head-scratching moment. Such a moment arose when Tibco moved to acquire Spotfire, a provider of visual analytics and business intelligence software. What would an integration software vendor — Tibco  — want with a provider of software that helps business managers make more important […]

Less than a month after pushing back the delivery date for its Windows Server virtualization technology, Microsoft  today said that key features of the software will not be delivered in the second half of the year. Viridian, a virtualization hypervisor , was supposed to arrive in the first half of the 2007 but was pushed […]

NEW YORK — With executives sweating the cost of overheated datacenters, IBM  today vowed to invest $1 billion per year to attack the energy consumption dilemma. Announced at a press event here, Project Big Green will include new products and services geared to help IBM reduce rampant energy consumption in computer gear. Project Big Green […]

VMware plans to move forward in the virtualization software market by going “back in time.” The software maker owned by EMC today began rolling out a new version of its desktop virtualization software that comes equipped with a new record and playback feature, as well as support for paravirtualization and Windows Vista. VMware Workstation lets […]

Despite an accidental information leak, HP  is giddy with newfound guidance. The computer systems and printer maker today announced revised second-quarter guidance after the “inadvertent disclosure” of finances through an internal e-mail sent Monday to an outside party. Citing “strong operational results” in its Personal Systems Group business and industry-standard server segment, HP now expects […]

Amazon.com  today agreed to pay IBM  an undisclosed sum to settle all patent lawsuits between the companies, which also inked a patent cross-license agreement. The detente comes months after IBM filed two suits in the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that Amazon “willfully infringed” on five patents. The disputed patents covered core technology Amazon used […]

Packeteer  and Microsoft  are in agreement about market opportunities to help companies manage the data deluge hitting their branch offices. So they’re teaming up to gang up on the issue. Packeteer today introduced the first iShaper appliance designed to speed up and secure data in the corporate office using native Microsoft application services. Nicknamed the […]

It was never dead, but MSN Hotmail is coming alive in more ways than ever. Microsoft  today took Windows Live Hotmail to the Web in the biggest upgrade of the ubiquitous webmail application since it appeared as MSN Hotmail in 1996. Microsoft considers Live Hotmail to be a key gateway for its online advertising business […]