Clint Boulton

Cassatt Corp., a specialist in the growing market for triggering tasks on virtual and physical servers in corporate datacenters, has added more pieces to its flagship Collage software suite. Collage automatically allocates and controls application server instances and virtual and physical machines, removing some of the manual operations associated with hardware, freeing up administrators to […]

Dell (Quote) and Microsoft (Quote) have created a new midrange storage server capable of handling file and block-based application data on one box. The PowerVault NX1950, running Microsoft’s new Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003, covers network-attached storage (NAS) (define) (file) and iSCSI SAN (SAN) (define) (block) storage. Covering both major protocols will keep customers from needing separate machines […]

HP (Quote)  said it has added two new direct-attached storage (DAS) (define) machines for small- and medium-sized businesses, offering customers new choices from the computer maker’s entry-level Modular Smart Array (MSA) line. The HP StorageWorks MSA60 and MSA70 enclosures support serial-attached SCSI (SAS) (define) and serial ATA (SATA) (define) drives in the same enclosure. Charles Vallhonrat, manager of […]

SOA Software, one of the last standalone service-oriented architecture (SOA) vendors standing in a space shrunken by consolidation, added a new major piece to its software portfolio for managing distributed computing systems. Called Workbench, the software is an integrated registry and repository that allows developers to manage SOAs (define) , or platforms for helping unrelated applications […]

Looking to capitalize on the burgeoning growth of virtualization software, infrastructure software provider BEA Systems (Quote) will unveil a virtualized version of its WebLogic application server, internetnews.com has learned. BEA said in a note, viewed by internetnews.com, that the company plans to announce that its WebLogic software will run on hypervisor software, as part of a […]

Two rivals are mixing it up in the virtualization management space today. Opsware Inc. (Quote) and Egenera have created software that allows corporate customers to manage physical and virtual servers from the same platform, representing a new growth opportunity at a time when server sprawl threatens to hinder operations. Opsware Virtualization Director, which will appear in […]

Systems vendors such as IBM, HP (Quote) and Sun Microsystems (Quote) offer super sturdy versions of their servers to run in places of intemperate climates. But these servers need some place to lodge the data when it isn’t being actively served. IBM (Quote) has created versions of its DS4700 midrange arrays that can withstand the physical beatings from […]

IBM (Quote) may lead the market for blade servers by a long shot. But HP (Quote) has beaten Big Blue to market with its first storage blade. HP said at Storage Networking World in Orlando, Fla., today that it has created a dedicated storage blade server to let customers tack on more storage simply by popping thin […]

EMC (Quote) introduced new software to help businesses recover and protect data in the case of a network outage, software failures and human errors. This practice, recovery management, is a key part of hording files from the time they are created until their disposal. EMC rivals IBM (Quote), HP (Quote) and others also build portfolios around […]

EMC (Quote) isn’t backing down from its aggressive upgrade strategy. The information systems vendor today unveiled a new high-end Symmetrix system, along with refreshes for its midrange, network-attached storage (NAS) and disk library systems. The Symmetrix DMX-3 model 950 offers twice the performance and three times the capacity of the DMX-2 800 it’s replacing, said Barbara […]