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The software maker has developed a customer interaction center application and the ability for companies to access customer, sales and marketing software from WAP-enabled phones. The center lets companies gain access to customer data through a single point of contact via Web sites, e-mail, phones or handheld devices. Giga Information Group analyst Erin Kinikin said […]

“Sun partnering with Brocade represents two market leaders working more closely to deliver storage networking solutions to Solaris and other operating environments,” said Duplessie. “Sun is the UNIX king and Brocade is the fibre channel switch king. Their customers will be happy.” But Goldman Sachs’ Laura Conigliaro took a more holistic view after attending Brocade’s […]

Empowered With POWER Irving Wladawsky-Berger, vice president of technology and strategy, and Bill Zeitler, senior vice president, IBM systems group outlined Big Blue’s plans to enable POWER chips to be used anywhere to deliver unprecedented scalability based on its architecture. “What drives our industry is the new application of technology,” Zeitler told the crowd. “Fundamentally, […]

With many analysts putting the figure for the data storage market in the billions over the next few years, it’s no wonder top tech firms are both pumping out upgraded products, and scrambling to ink new deals with key partners. But a recent Goldman Sachs report questioned how long it would be before the companies, […]

Software developers who are fans of Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Solaris operating system (or “environment,” as the firm calls it) can test it before it goes public, the company said Tuesday. Sun takes Solaris 9 for an early access program spin. Palo Alto, Calif.’s Sun launched Solaris 9 Developer Early Access software as the first beta […]

Web host Verio on Tuesday announced its Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting product can now be used in Sun Microsystems’ operating environment. In a kind-of two-for-the-price-of-one play, the NTT Communications subsidiary hopes its revamped VPS solution will provide the functionality of a dedicated server at a price comparable to most shared server environments. Web host […]

A day before it is scheduled to announce highly anticipated earnings, hardware giant Sun Microsystems Wednesday drew the curtain on its server appliance strategy with some new products for the IT sector, including a sub-$1,000 server. Promising the same bang for fewer bucks, the Netra X1 server starts at a very attractive $995. The Netra […]

In a time where rumors about consolidations and layoffs abound as much as the company skippers who dodge artfully around them, information technology firm O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. said this week that it would cease developing software and would have to lay off nine people in that division. Founder and Chief Executive Officer Tim O’Reilly […]

IBMwill take aim at Sun Microsystems Monday with the launch of two new midrange servers — the deskside p620 and rack-mounted p660 — as part of its overall strategy to catch up to Sun, which leads the United States in Unix server market share. It also will open up things a bit in the Unix […]

IBM Corp. Wednesday unveiled new services for “Project eLiza,” the company’s name for the self-managing properties in its servers. Formally called e-Business Management Services, the multi-billion-dollar strategy just detailed marks the first indication eLiza will aim to directly tailor business process objectives to support information resources. IBM Corp. Wednesday unveiled new services for “Project eLiza,” […]

While makers of low-end or middling servers have been busy of late, IBM climbed the ladder Monday with the release of a new 32-way server from its iSeries line that the Armonk, N.Y. firm claims can provide more than double the processing power of the previously most powerful member of that eServer family — the […]

Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM Monday followed up some software refreshing from a month ago with the release of new xSeries servers based on the Intel Xeon Processor MP, or Gallatin. Primed for large business and enterprise data workloads, the servers include new models of the four-way IBM eServer x255 rack and tower system; new four-way models […]