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Open Text Offers Help In Managing Storage Of SharePoint Documents
October 13, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Open Text Storage Services for SharePoint plugs into the latter software's application programming interface for redirecting binary large objects, or BLOBs, which are not necessary for queries to the database.

IBM Plans Breakthrough Solid-State Storage System 'Quicksilver'
August 29, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
In the new flash-based system, IBM is using the same Intel-based IBM System x server running Linux that the company uses with its traditional Fibre Channel disk array.

HP Closes $13.9 Billion EDS Acquisition
August 26, 2008 by Paul McDougall
The deal creates the world's second largest IT services and outsourcing vendor, trailing only IBM.

ParAccel Unveils Pilot Program For Analytic Appliance
May 21, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
the new analytic appliance is built on EMC CLARiion midrange CX-3 UltraScale networked storage and ParAccel's analytic columnar database.

HP Launches 'Extreme' Storage System
May 5, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks 9100 Extreme is designed for Web companies and other organizations that need multipetabytes of data storarge.

Teradata Unveils Entry- To Enterprise-Level Data Warehouse Appliances
April 21, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The product line starts with the Teradata 550 SMP aimed at departmental use and priced at $67,000 per terabyte. The remaining two models include the Teradata 2500, an entry-level system priced at $125,000 per terabyte; and the enterprise-level 5500, which starts at $200,000 per terabyte.

IBM To Acquire Israeli Storage Firm FilesX
April 10, 2008 by Paul McDougall
FilesX's software provides continuous data protection for applications and servers as well as supporting business users in remote offices.

EMC Acquires IT Service Management Software Provider Infra
March 11, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The company, which makes InfraEnterprise, will become a part of EMC's resource management software business unit.

IBM Envisions Clustered Modular Storage
February 28, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The company also plans to introduce in the next couple of quarters solid-state drives that will work alongside hard-disk drives.

EMC Buys Pi To Boost 'Cloud Computing' Infrastructure
February 22, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
EMC also gains Pi chief executive Paul Maritz, a former senior executive of Microsoft, who will head EMC's newly formed Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division.

Greenplum Updates Open-Source Based Database
February 22, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
New features in Greenplum 3, which is based on the PostgreSQL open source database, includes parallel loading in excess of 3.5 terabytes per hour.

Dawn Of The App Aware Network
February 16, 2008 by Andy Dornan
Switch vendors want to sideline servers by making their devices smarter. Now IT must decide if this is a brave new world ... or a nightmare of lock-in and higher costs

Sun Champions Developers, Disruption Of Big Software Suppliers
February 14, 2008 by Charles Babcock
CEO Jonathan Schwartz outlines his company's vision for supplying existing and future Web 2.0 companies with the open source tools they'll need.

EMC Reports Strong Growth Across All Business Segments
January 30, 2008 by Antone Gonsalves
The company reported double-digit revenue growth across the board, even in its mature business of information storage and content management and archiving.

Standards For IT Governance
December 8, 2007 by Dave Greenfield
ITIL, COBIT, and ISO 17799 provide a blueprint for managing IT services.

Seagate Acquires E-Discovery Software Company MetaLincs
December 6, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
While the majority of Seagate's revenues are in hard disk drives, the company believes the services group is a business that can be profitable on its own.

Oracle Customers Like Compression, Storage Management, XML Handling
November 16, 2007 by Charles Babcock
Customers attending Oracle OpenWorld found different things to like in Oracle's smorgasbord of new software announcements and recent enhancements.

Want To Save The Planet? Turn Off That PC
November 5, 2007 by Richard Martin
Reports that PCs and monitors alone contribute 40% of total carbon emissions are fueling a surge in power-monitoring software sold from firms like Verdiem.

XenSource Founder Outlines Virtualization's Road Map At Interop
October 24, 2007 by Elena Malykhina
Simon Crosby hints at how his group at Citrix will spread hypervisors everywhere with the help of partnerships with Amazon.com, Dell, Microsoft, and Symantec.

IBM Buys Storage-Services Company NovusCG
October 24, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
IBM tries to catch EMC and Symantec in the storage software market by adding NovusCG to its Storage and Data Services business unit within IBM Global Technology Services.

Sun Unveils Virtualization Platform
October 4, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
The xVM Server is based on the open source Xen hypervisor and includes a minimized version of Solaris.

Industry Group Releases Server Management Standards
September 13, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
The new specs will help to provide a consistent method for automated management of computer servers from multiple vendors.

VMware User Group Meeting To Feature Management Tools
September 8, 2007 by Charles Babcock
As virtualization proliferates on servers and desktops, management becomes a priority.

Dell To Rally SMBs Around Its Virtualization Bandwagon
September 7, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
In its quest to win more small and medium business customers, Dell is expected to show off a new storage area network array that is optimized for virtualization next week.

The Cold, Green Facts
September 1, 2007 by Art Wittmann
Buying energy-efficient technology isn't the only--or even the best--way to cut down on energy consumption in the data center. Rethinking the way you use the technology you already have can make a bigger impact.

IBM's Computing Breakthrough Promises Chips The Size Of Dust
August 30, 2007 by Thomas Claburn
IBM's new techniques may well lead to the use of atoms for digital storage, which could store the entire contents of YouTube -- about 1,000 trillion bits of data.

Open Text To Build Law Firm-Focused Content Management System On Microsoft SharePoint
August 20, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
The new product, available next year, would would combine Open Text's expertise in lifecycle management of legal documents with the collaboration and content management capabilities of SharePoint.

IBM Unveils Mainframe OS Upgrade
August 16, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
The improvements include better PKI services for managing digital certificates directly through the mainframe, thereby eliminating the need for third-party hosting of those services.

Citrix Buying XenSource To Tap Red-Hot Virtualization Market
August 15, 2007 by Charles Babcock
Citrix has been trying to position itself as a virtualization player. The deal will give its credentials in the market.

Amazon Pushes Data Center-To-Rent Service
August 7, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
With EC2, the company CIO hopes application service providers can focus on adding features and not on power generators, bandwidth, and hard disk failures.

Financial Firms Discuss How To Build A Better Data Center
August 7, 2007 by Elena Malykhina
Despite slow progress in some areas, virtualization is clearly making a splash on Wall Street and becoming an important component of next-generation data centers.

CA Unveils Unicenter Service Catalog For IT Services
August 6, 2007 by Elena Malykhina
The catalog provides a centralized, secure location where they can find, review, and order available IT services or request new ones.

CIOs Uncensored: Whither The Role Of The CIO?
August 4, 2007 by John Soat
As the traditional data center model withers away, what happens to the tech-oriented CIO?

EPA Recommends Curbing Data-Center Energy Consumption
August 3, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
If left unchecked, the agency warns consumption threatens to cost the public and private sector $7.4 billion in annual electricity costs by 2011.

Symantec Rolls Out Next-Generation Storage Software
August 2, 2007 by Elena Malykhina
The company says its integrated approach to storage management aims to automate storage processes and align storage with business goals.

HP-Opsware Deal Shows IT Automation Kicking Into High Gear
July 28, 2007 by Paul McDougall
Automation has been an elusive goal in the data center. Acquisitions and better tools are changing the outlook.

HP Hopes To Give IT Pros 'The Simple Life' With Software Acquisitions
July 23, 2007 by Paul McDougall
HP bought Opsware and Neoware, which offer products and services designed to simplify the operation and maintenance of corporate computing networks by centralizing and automating key tasks.

Seeing Red, Sun Shifts Into Utility Computing Era
July 9, 2007 by Richard Martin
The company shows how building out massive server farms using hundreds of low-end machines is soon going to give way to projects like Blackbox and Constellation.

Intel, AMD Redesign Chips For Faster Virtualized Servers
July 5, 2007 by Charles Babcock
Two years ago, less than 5% of the data center had been virtualized. By 2010, Intel projects that 25% of enterprise data center servers will be running in virtualization mode.

IBM Turns To Microsoft For Midmarket Cluster Server
June 28, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
The two companies partner to offer smaller companies high-performance computer hardware and software.

Scientist Touts Big Efficiency Improvement For Data Center Cooling
June 22, 2007 by K.C. Jones
The co-founder of Microway claims he developed a system that reduces the amount of energy required to cool data centers up to 50%.

IBM, MySQL To Bring Open Source Database To System i
April 26, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
The companies have agreed to work together in offering the MySQL Server for i5/OS, the flagship operating system for System i, and to certify IBM's DB2 as a MySQL storage engine.

IBM Introduces x86 Linux Virtualization On System P Servers
April 23, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
IBM hopes the software will capitalize on its customers' needs to use Linux for their back-end server functions, as well as implementing virtualization in the data center.

Open Text Offers Records Management For SAP
April 18, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
The Livelink ECM Records Management product will be marketed and supported by SAP and Open Text.

HP Introduces Beefier All-In-One Storage For SMBs
April 11, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
The hardware includes HP's wizard-based management software for allocating storage and migrating data from other applications running on separate hardware for backup or disaster recovery.

IBM Pits System I Against Microsoft Windows In Small-Business Market
April 11, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
The price of the server includes a five-user license and five-day-a-week support, and it brings fewer security problems than Windows, IBM said.

HP Rethinks Small Biz Storage Strategy
April 10, 2007 by Joseph Kovar
Hewlett-Packard has reorganized its small and midsized business team under a new executive looking to bring some of its best practices from Europe to help meet the needs of U.S. customers. The company also unveiled a new version of its All-In-One small business storage array.

The Fight Against Infoglut
April 7, 2007 by Mary Hayes Weier
Several vendors, including IBM, EMC, and Microsoft, offer systems that help you leverage ever-increasing amounts of digital information.

IBM Opens Up System Z Mainframe To SOAs
April 5, 2007 by Antone Gonsalves
IBM is expanding the server's capabilities by allowing it to process XML documents and their attachments, such as graphic files, that are traveling in a SOAP packet.

Google Patent Application Promises Cleaner Data
March 30, 2007 by Thomas Claburn
The application describes a system for verifying listing information submitted by users, such as a merchant might enter when providing data to the Google Local Business Center about his or her business.