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Storage experts said Bank of America’s loss of tapes housing the personal information of 1.2 million government employees suggests the data on them was not encrypted. The case is seen spurring calls for encrypting customer data. Data encryption renders files unreadable to users, greatly mitigating the security risk brought on by the theft or misplacement […]

The Eclipse Foundation issued its first open source Web services tools geared to make it easier and faster for developers to write and deploy Java software. The tools are designed to help programmers create Web services , which make communication possible between multiple applications. They make sure the applications are conformant to standards from the […]

Intel will add hardware support for VMware virtualization software in its forthcoming Vanderpool chip line. Vanderpool consists of hardware enhancements to server and desktop processors that make virtualization work much better for customers. Virtualization helps customers consolidate resources by running multiple instances of an operating system or application on one physical machine. Brian Byun, vice […]

EMC next month will begin selling new search tools for its Centera fixed content system to help customers pinpoint information within their file systems. Centera is for content that must not be altered or deleted, which comes in handy at a time when compliance regulations require files to be stored unchanged for specific lengths of […]

While many vendors advertise plumbing and tools for distributed computing systems, a new start-up billing itself as an “Internet Concierge” emerged from stealth mode with a working Web services platform and application. Rearden Commerce, previously known as Talaris, makes software that brings services to corporate employees on demand. Corporate employees can use the Rearden Employee […]

IBM will provide up to $50,000 in new services to lure more partners and tool developers to write software for its eServer iSeries system. In what one official called the company’s most comprehensive push on the platform in a decade, the eServer iSeries Initiative for Innovation program is an indication of Big Blue’s persistence in […]

IBM added to its lead in the server market, posting a worldwide market revenue share of 32.5 percent on the strength of its new Power5-based machines, according to Gartner results for the fourth quarter of 2004. In a $50 billion server market much improved from the downturn that began in 2000, Big Blue showed a […]

IBM has grand plans for its corporate search efforts, including new intelligent tools that can discover what information assets customers access from repositories and how they relate. These are some of the fruits that will appear in the company’s next version of Information Integrator, code-named Serrano, according to Nelson Mattos, distinguished engineer and vice president […]

Looking to become the first large systems vendor to bridge the gap between storage and servers, HP introduced the next generation of its storage resource management software, a suite that integrates with the company’s server management tools. Storage Essentials is a set of software plug-ins designed to alleviate the pain points associated with bridging islands […]

Microsoft announced final features and pricing for its forthcoming SQL Server 2005 database, including a new edition of software priced between the developer and standard versions. The software giant also deepened its partnership with Dell, inking a formal original equipment manufacturers (OEM) agreement with the systems vendor to provide customers better support. Tom Rizzo, director […]

UPDATED: BEA Systems said it has joined the Eclipse Foundation and will invest $1.5 million in money, code and personnel in the open source group each year. The software company will join the consortium as a strategic developer and board member, said Bill Roth, vice president of product marketing at BEA. In related news, Dublin, […]

SAP AG is helping utility companies leverage Web services to help them more efficiently deal with deregulated markets and new compliance issues. SAP is blending its NetWeaver application platform, loaded with business intelligence tools, to help electricity, gas and water companies use Web services in an offering called SAP for Utilities. The plan, announced at […]