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Sun Microsystems is bulking up its storage portfolio to help customers brace for looming compliance.
HP's Virtualized Infrastructure Solutions for mySAP Business Suite enables users to dynamically allocate compute resources to respond to business demands.
The software-as-a-service model is appearing as a growing competitor to packaged software. But the likes of Microsoft, Oracle and SAP stand in the way of SaaS becoming a dominant software-distribution model.
Opinion: The maturity of grid technologies will lead to wider adoption of grids, but grids within the enterprise may never be mainstream.
Reporter's Notebook: Reducing IT complexity was the theme of Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. But IT managers say all of the evidence they have seen points to more complexity, not less.
Moving closer to the promise of on-demand computing, Opsware's SAS 5.1 offers affordable, streamlined server management and helps with SarbOx compliance.
IBM reports major wins for its service-oriented architecture program, including an application-modernization deal with Fireman's Fund and an ERP development project with Lawson Software.
The new software product eliminates database resynchronization by taking a snapshot of the database and collecting any changes made.
Liquid Computing's new server architecture leverages industry-standard components and proprietary technology to create a pool of computing resources that can scale up and down depending on workload demands.
Apple's Xsan delivers SAN file system technology to companies with Apple hardware.
DesktopLinux.com's updated 2004 Desktop Linux Market survey presents data on distributions, windows managers, e-mail clients, Web browsers and more.
Sun will roll out its Grid Rack System, which will ease the migration to utility computing environments.