Clint Boulton

Dell has updated its desktop and laptop computing lines to lure more corporate customers, promising better performance, security, hardy designs and services. The computer market share leader, looking to capitalize on IBM’s recent plan to exit computer manufacturing, unveiled the Latitude D410, D610 and D810 notebooks for corporate employees who travel or work from remote […]

Sun Microsystems officially launched its grid utility computing offering, a $1-per-hour-per-CPU option that turned heads when it was announced last year. Rolled out at its Network Computing ’05 (NC05Q1) event in Santa Clara, Calif., the grid utility costs $1 per CPU, per hour, said Ed Valdez, vice president of integrated solutions at Sun. A similar […]

MicroStrategy has updated its business intelligence software platform to offer a spiced up blend of reporting, analysis and performance monitoring tools. The latest release is also a way for MicroStrategy to keep up with advancements in business intelligence software from top rivals Business Objects and Cognos . Report groupings, sections and calculations can now be […]

EMC launched improved data recovery utilities in its Legato NetWorker and Dantz Retrospect software, part of an effort to build more market share against rivals in back-up software. Designed to protect heavier data loads in enterprises, NetWorker 7.2 integrates with more applications and features new perks for backing up to disk. NetWorker features a new […]

Corporate concerns about compliance and records retention are driving a boomlet in e-mail archiving applications. Between 2002 and 2004, according to IDC, the market has exploded in a six-fold growth in sales, reaching about $180 million last year for enterprise content management (ECM). That’s a lot of e-mail archiving for software providers within the ECM […]

NEW YORK — BEA Systems unveiled a test designed to help customers gauge what they need to do in order to install a service-oriented architecture (SOA) , an increasingly popular method of distributed computing. Called the SOA Readiness Self-Assessment, the test helps IT managers determine how to tie services to IT, taking into account an […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) have created a new standard and specification to improve the efficiency with which users leverage resources on the Web. The standards address Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) and Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRI) , which take users to such resources as documents and Web sites […]

UPDATED: Picking up where it left off in 2004 with its distributed computing plans, IBM introduced a new service to help companies build and deploy service-oriented architectures (SOA) . The new Service Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA) is a methodology to help businesses implement an SOA, or distributed computing plan, that can tie business processes […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published three new standards to help vendors such as Microsoft, IBM and BEA Systems improve Web services performance for customers. The standards body on Tuesday issued XML-binary Optimized Packaging, SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism and Resource Representation SOAP Header Block to help developers package and send binary data […]

Citing strong demand for its enhanced products and services, EMC said fourth quarter earnings rose 46 percent to $321 million (13 cents per share), from $220 million (9 cents per share) in Q4 2003. The Hopkinton, Mass., information systems vendor also announced Q4 revenue of $2.36 billion, which was 27 percent greater than the $1.86 […]

While Oracle , EMC and others have grand content management plans to manage unstructured data, IBM plans to serve notice later this year that it is still the big gorilla in the space. The Armonk, N.Y., company will release upgrades to both its DB2 Content Manager and DB2 Document Manager around March or April, according […]

Hoping to take advantage of EMC’s influence on the storage market, Hitachi Data Systems and Sun Microsystems have added virtualization support for EMC storage systems. Hitachi said in a statement its TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform virtualization software will run on EMC Symmetrix DMX 800, 1000, 2000, 3000 and Symmetrix 3000, 5000 and 8000 storage systems. […]