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HP Scales Up StorageWorks for Linux
Hewlett-Packard Co. is boosting its storage grid architecture by enabling applications to see a single file system image across connected servers and devices within Linux environments. The Palo Alto, Calif., company will unveil the HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share (SFS) system Wednesday at the International Supercomputer Conference in Heidelberg, Germany. Due in the third quarter…
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Partners Back Utility Computing
Hewlett-Packard Co., Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH and IBM are each turning to system and network management software partners to help move their respective utility computing initiatives forward. Each company’s goal is to enable customers to create utility computing environments that can be viewed as a single pool of resources for easy management and dynamic provisioning…
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Microsoft’s Anti-Virus Strategy Keeps Users Guessing
One year after it surprised rivals and partners by jumping into the anti-virus market, Microsoft Corp. still has no clear AV strategy, and users are still hanging on to the promise of integrated Windows protection. The company’s sluggish AV development is a far cry from the plans Microsoft trumpeted when it acquired the Romanian company…
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PLM Services Options Morph
Manufacturers evaluating software to manage product information from inception through retirement are getting several new options to consider, thanks to a couple of mergers and a new offering from IBM. The goal of each option is to give companies a better handle on product information to improve design, manufacturing, marketing and servicing of those products.…
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Net Management in Supercomm’s Limelight
To give carriers and their enterprise customers ways to make better use of the vast amount of network capacity available today, vendors are developing products that add more control to traffic, bandwidth and services management. At this year’s Supercomm conference in Chicago, VocalData Inc. will roll out its latest data application server, which has an…
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MS Software Assurance Versus Red Hat Network
It’s rather interesting, really. I know many people who hate both Microsoft’s Software Assurance plan and Red Hat’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network. They’re similar plans. You pay your money and you get all of the goodness both companies can give you for their respective software for a year or three. But…
