Clint Boulton

Microsoft reaffirmed its interest in taking its software to motor vehicles Monday with the launch of the fifth version of its platform for automotive suppliers and manufacturers, which would make communication hands-free in the car.Based on the Redmond, Wash. concern’s embedded systems Windows CE .NET 4.2, Windows Automotive 4.2will pipe real-time weather alerts, driving directions […]

Sun Microsystems and IBM are once again going head-to-head in their efforts to lure new customers. Both companies have announced plans to reshape their high-performance computing offerings through the formation of new business units.Sun earlier this month announced the creation of its High Performance and Technical Computing (HPTC) unit and IBM this week unveiled its […]

While the mainframe business was the only one of its hardware segments to contract in the first quarter, IBM nonetheless has big hopes for that business to contribute to the overall bottom line by the end of the year, industry experts say.That is because the Armonk, NY-based global computing giant is set to release the […]

After working in stealth mode for a couple years, Candera (formerly known as Confluence Networks) Tuesday unveiled the first of what it hopes will be many products — a storage controller for managing storage devices in a heterogeneous network. But while many firms craft similar devices for facilitating storage area networks (SANs) , the Milpitas, […]

Many of the country’s largest systems vendors and storage technology specialists have converged at the Storage Networking World 2003event in Phoenix this week to announce new wares, or demonstrate how their existing products work with vital emerging standards. New products introduced Not surprisingly, many of the new products concern IP-based storage, and consist of iSCSI […]

Seeking to fill what it perceives as a gap in the marketplace, IBM Thursday rolled out a new Linux package for developers of the open-source operating system at its DeveloperWorks Live! 2003show in New Orleans.IBM Integrated Platform Express (code-named “Blue Ice”), a combination of the Armonk, N.Y. firm’s hardware servers and application server and database […]

When Enron was found to have shredded incriminating documents, it touched off an avalanche of concern for increased records retention and with it, created new opportunities for storage-oriented firms to make new products to address this issue. EMC Tuesday became the first to tap an emerging market for records retention products when it released a […]

Sun Microsystems Monday unfurled another banner in its Sun One strategy for computer services on demand with the introduction of a platform that it claims will make workflow communications in the corporate sector more efficient, and ultimately, its users more productive.The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company, which recently reopened its corporate offices in Menlo Park, introduced […]

Accelerating their efforts to forge standards together, Microsoft and IBM this week submitted a test suite for viewing and creating information in corporate databases tagged with the XML language to the World Wide Web Consortium(W3C). The language, called XML Query(XQuery), uses queries to extract data from real and virtual Web documents, paving the way for […]

HP sought to bolster its server market share Thursday with the announcement of new pricing for its midrange servers that would be 20 percent lower than the current offerings in its Unix-based machines family. Dimitris Dovas, midrange server line manager at HP, said the Palo Alto, Calif.-based firm is also adding new services and increased […]