Clint Boulton

IBM has just finished a major upgrade to SAN Volume Controller 4.1 (SVC), its storage virtualization software. SVC aggregates data lodged in storage arrays from IBM, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, and others; copies it; and recalls that data on the fly from near-unlimited distances. IBM’s SAN Volume Controller can now replicate data from any distance. […]

IBM again leveraged its pact with Network Appliance, introducing new storage appliances that act as bridges between SAN and NAS systems. IBM is using its NetApp partnership to craft an appliance that bridges the SAN-NAS storage gap. Designed for small- and midsize businesses (SMB), the IBM System Storage N5200 and N5500 Series Gateways will help […]

There’s a popular notion swirling around the high-tech sector that Microsoft’s dominant position in the industry and software bugs have customers scurrying for the cover of Linux. How will the fight for server and desktop placement play out? This may be more of a myth than a notion, Gartner analyst John Enck said during a […]

IBM’s BlueGene/L system is still king of the supercomputing heap, according to the 28th list of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers unveiled at the Supercomputing 2006 show in Tampa, Fla. Tuesday. BlueGene/L holds fast, while the rest of the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers dance around. The annual “TOP500” list […]

On Monday, Microsoft and Novell revealed another layer of details on their technical collaboration. Another layer peeled away, and the Novell-Microsoft collaboration got a little clearer. Customers will be able to host SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Novell as a virtualized guest on an upcoming service pack of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 service […]

Sun Microsystems is 60 days away from releasing a version of its Java Enterprise System infrastructure software for Linux, which it is positioning to compete with IBM’s offerings. Sun Microsystems is 60 days away from releasing a version of its Java Enterprise System infrastructure software for Linux, which it is positioning to compete with IBM’s […]

Big Blue Wednesday unleashed software under its WebSphere family of middleware that cuts out application servers. One might think of the new products as Big Blue’s answer to Microsoft’s .NET, which has skewered most of the public’s attention. Software for the mainframes? Absolutely, said IBM Corp. Geared for IBM’s z/OS and OS/390 operating systems for […]

Dell Computer Corp. did it earlier this month. Compaq Computer Corp. did it in January. Sun Microsystems Inc. plans on doing it this year. The “it,” in this instance, refers to joining the server blade scramble. Armed with its technological team and financial clout, IBM Corp. jumped into the server blade fray Thursday when it […]

Swooping in to undercut the likes of Sun Microsystems and HP, IBM Monday unveiled a new eight-way Unix server — the eServer pSeries 650 — equipped with the Armonk, N.Y. company’s latest 64-bit POWER4+ processor. With the release, Big Blue is essentially continuing its strategy of taking performance and autonomic computing capabilities from its high-end […]

UPDATED: IBM plans to announce a significant strategic move in its server and storage systems group next Tuesday, internetnews.com has learned. UPDATED: Big Blue appears ready to give the world a peek at its new mainframe. Are a converged Power server and storage virtualization deal on tap? The company has been hush hush about the […]

IBM Corp. pushed forward with its latest, eServer Wednesday when it unwrapped the x440, an Intel chip-based machine that offers a “pay-as-you-need-the-power” price point in the hopes of swaying more customers to the Blue side. The x440 relies on what Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM calls a “building-block”-style called XPandonDemand, which allows customers to pay for computing […]

Redmond, Wash.’s Microsoft, after airing its XML-based Web services plan across the state, may beg to differ. It made perhaps the most important announcement about its Web services push yet, which is that the company’s hallowed code for the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET has been released to all conference attendees, which means the […]