Clint Boulton

IBM is debuting a new custom chip technology and xSeries server in a move to gain more market share versus Dell and HP in the Intel server market. The company unveiled X3 architecture and the new Hurricane chipset, the fruit of a three-year, $100 million research and development effort. IBM also introduced IBM eServer xSeries […]

VMware has been the undisputed leader in the x86 virtualization space, teaming up with large systems vendors to find placement among the loads of Intel servers that companies like Dell , IBM and HP have been selling. But one new start-up looking to advance the notion of using software to consolidate infrastructure in data centers […]

IBM is prepping new disk, tape and storage software technologies to help small and medium business customers better manage information on a storage network. Under the information lifecycle management (ILM) banner for managing data from its creation until its disposal, Big Blue is making the Linear Tape Open (LTO) Generation 3 format ubiquitous across its […]

Microsoft has taken a lot of heat for what critics have described as its inability to bring trusted identity management to the public in the last few years. But that hasn’t stopped the software giant from trying. Microsoft is trying to integrate its identity management software components into one platform to make it easier for […]

As part of a continuing effort to break down language barriers on the Internet, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published a standard for how applications can exchange and process characters from languages all over the world. The standards body wrote “Character Model of the World Wide Web: Fundamentals” to provide specifications authors, software […]

Computer security comes in many forms. But one of the newest frontiers is safeguarding and improving the performance of XML, as independent companies like Forum Systems, Sarvega, Reactivity and DataPower can attest. Those vendors made a slew of announcements this week at the RSA Conference 2005, where shoring up the network against unwanted intruders, viruses […]

The Liberty Alliance Project released Mobile Business Guidelines 2.0, a document for describing how service providers can deploy secure mobile Web services. The Mobile Business Guidelines document addresses issues such as quality standards, risk management, liability/dispute and resolution policies for those offering single sign-on and Web services via handheld computers, smart phones and laptops. The […]

Sun Microsystems introduced improvements to safeguard its Java System Communications software suite, trumpeting the company’s participation in the RSA Conference this week. The communications package is Sun’s version of an enterprise collaboration package, providing e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging. The suite already comes with several security utilities, including authentication, authorization, session encryption and content filtering. […]

Startup Virtual Iron Software has created software that can assume the processing and performance of several connected hardware servers. While virtualization technology from vendors such as VMware is designed to carve up a single box into small partitions, Virtual Iron VFe 1.0 allows users to take multiple computers in a data center and use them […]

EMC is taking iSCSI support to its mid-range Clariion storage devices to provide customers more choice and a lower cost alternative to Fibre Channel products. The new Clariion models AX100i, CX300i and CX500i are basically the same as Fibre Channel boxes from the line, right down to the pricing, said Tom Joyce, senior director of […]

Identity standards group Liberty Alliance has issued a draft of ID-WSF 2.0, its second version of the Web services framework, which supports Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0. SAML, which standards body OASIS created, maps out single sign-on utilities for creating and exchanging security information among online partners. By supporting SAML 2.0, ID-WSF 2.0 will […]

UPDATED: Cisco is preparing to launch a new device that would improve the performance and security of exchanging XML messages and position the company for growth in Web services, internetnews.com has learned. The move could create new competition for traditional providers of application server and message broker middleware, and pit the product against companies such […]