Stories by Shelley Solheim

Sun, Imation team up on tape drive

Sun Microsystems has teamed up with data-storage vendor Imation to develop a new Sun StorageTek tape drive with improved capacity and security features.

Lenovo licenses PC software to IBM

Lenovo Group said Monday that it has agreed to allow IBM Global Technology Services' arm to license its ThinkVantage software for deployment on non-Lenovo PCs.

IBM tops supercomputer list, Opteron gains ground

The Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released Wednesday, with IBM's BlueGene continuing to reign and Advanced Micro Devices's (AMD's) Opteron processor powering more systems on the list than last year.

Intel rolls out 'Woodcrest' chip

As it seeks to fend off competitive threats from Advanced Micro Devices, chip maker Intel Monday released its dual-core Xeon processor, code-named 'Woodcrest,' the first based on its new Core microarchitecture.

AMD to open US chip fab

Advanced Micro Devices will open a US$3.2 billion chip fabrication plant in New York State to produce 300-millimeter wafer chips, said the company Friday in a joint announcement with New York state officials.

Stanford taps tech for earth sciences research

Stanford University Tuesday is opening the doors to a new research center that is tapping technology from Sun Microsystems to better understand earth sciences.

EMC acquires BPM software provider

EMC has opened up its pocketbook yet again, this time to acquire ProActivity Software Solutions, a small, privately held provider of content-management software for business process management (BPM).

Walden to bank $100M on blade server growth

A venture capital firm is shelling out up to US$100 million to drive worldwide growth of blade server computing, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.

ClearCube readies new PC blade tools, targets SMBs

PC blade vendor ClearCube Technology on Thursday gave a sneak peak at some upcoming products it hopes will drive greater adoption of blade computing.

EMC acquires nLayers, outlines growth goals

EMC has acquired privately held, venture-funded startup nLayers, said EMC chairman, president and Chief Executive Officer Joe Tucci at the company's analyst event in New York on Wednesday.

Red Hat completes JBoss acquisition

Red Hat has completed its US$350 million acquisition of Java application server vendor JBoss, the company said Monday.

IBM seeks to ease billing for virtualised environments

IBM launched Thursday software to help companies deploying virtualized computing environments more easily bill business departments or external clients based on consumption of resources.

Sun board approves growth plan, including layoffs

Sun Microsystems's board of directors has signed off on a company plan to return to profitability that will include between 4000 - 5000 layoffs in the next six months.

Ubuntu Linux to support Sun Niagara servers

Sun Microsystems is getting support for its Sparc-based servers from Canonical, the Linux distributor of Ubuntu, the companies said Tuesday.

HP hones in on automation, virtualization for Unix

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is readying the next version of its Unix operating system with new features designed to automate workload movement in virtual environments, the company said Thursday.