Clint Boulton

A couple of months after a demonstration at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York City, Red Hat Inc. made good on its promise to deliver a powerful Linux operating system for business use. The Raleigh, N.C. open source software maker rolled out its Red Hat Linux Advanced Server, and is back in the Big […]

Storage software maker VERITAS Software Corp. on Monday unveiled the next generation of its NetBackup software, which features improvements in reporting capabilities. VERITAS NetBackup 4.5 automates disaster recovery applications through a piece of software dubbed NetBackup Vault, an off-site tape backup management offering that protects users against site disaster by automating the rotation of tapes […]

Looking to dispel what it claims are false notions about its philosophy on Linux, Sun Microsystems held a conference call Thursday before its analyst conference in San Francisco to discuss its future plans for the open-source operating system. Sun President and COO Ed Zander did not delve into many specifics because, he admitted, Sun didn’t […]

IBM has great designs for the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo next week and it started Friday with the unveiling of a Linux-only mainframe targeted to “reduce server sprawl” and compete with midrange machines made by Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. But while Sun and HP typically focus on delivering Unix-based servers, IBM is reviving the mainframe […]