Clint Boulton

Imagine being able to walk into a corporate sister company and get your computing services magically beamed to any device as an on-demand service. Startup XDS is doing it. But it isn’t magic; it’s just a nifty new networking technology. The company makes SIMtone (Secure Interactive Mobile Tone), which works like a dial tone to […]

It’s no secret the storage system market is ruled by a handle of top-tier vendors, such as EMC (Quote), IBM (Quote), HP (Quote), Dell (Quote) and Hitachi Data Systems (Quote). These companies command some 95 percent of a total disk storage market that IDC said notched $24.4 billion in 2006. But there’s still a few […]

HP (Quote) this week added a new box to its All-in-One Storage family, which the computer systems maker launched last fall to make storage easy for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB) with little or no IT staffs. The HP StorageWorks 1200 All-in-One Storage System (HP AiO1200) helps customers manage, store and protect data from files or […]

Sun Microsystems (Quote) today said it has donated data-storage technologies to the OpenSolaris community, a move that will allow developers to run the software on storage arrays from Sun competitors IBM, HP and Dell. The systems vendor is donating management features from Solaris ZFS, the dynamic file system in the Solaris 10 operating system that […]

Blue Coat Systems (Quote), which makes appliances that boost the performance of applications over wide-area networks (WAN), fortified the operating system software for its SG appliances with new security, clustering and failover capabilities. The thrust of the new SGOS is to optimize applications for companies and their multiple branches so employees, no matter how far […]

Citrix Systems (Quote) upgraded its application delivery software today and entered the market for desktop virtualization software. NetScaler is Citrix’s network management suite, providing high-speed load balancing and content switching along with traffic management, data compression, content caching and security features. The product, acquired in Citrix’s purchase of NetScaler nearly two years ago, is positioned […]

As leading sellers of datacenter hardware, HP (Quote), IBM and Sun Microsystems (Quote) love to talk about ways they cool datacenters and conserve energy. It makes them look good to customers concerned about curbing energy-related costs. In the last few years, those vendors have led the resurgence of cooling heat generated by servers and storage […]

Acquisitions are fun. Something about a company shelling out millions or billions of bucks to shake the trees of capitalism makes us sit up and take notice. Our blood hums when cash is exchanged. What’s even more fun is when a company bids for another vendor, only to have it opposed by another competitor in […]

Safe and easy are now two words you can think when you’re thinking Web services. The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) has published the WS-I Basic Security Profile (BSP 1.0), a guide for making sure Web services are secure and interoperable. Web services (define), or communication between disparate applications, can automate certain business transactions, including […]

NEW YORK — In roughly four years, Opsware (Quote) has carved itself a nice piece of the server-provisioning market, a segment of the multi-billion-dollar industry for management software. The company, whose software automates the tedious tasks IT workers have traditionally undertaken to make sure networks and servers are running up to speed, cracked the $100 million […]