Ashlee Vance

Sun Microsystems Inc. will announce new storage system later this week that brings some high-end features for protecting data to the low end of its storage line.

Tech-savvy leaders that can deal with customers and their company's IT infrastructure will replace the sales and marketing types that dominate executive ranks today, according to Michael Capellas, president of Hewlett-Packard Co.

Sun Microsystems Inc. has yet to respond to a challenge from a group of its users made this month, calling for a public debate about the future of the Solaris operating systems on Intel Corp. chips.

The plight faced by storage administrators is clear: Vendors armed with hefty research and development budgets have scrambled to deliver software that could make their customers' lives easier, but thus far the products have failed to live up to their billing, at least according to users in Chicago this week at the Storage Decisions conference.

The plight faced by storage administrators is clear: Vendors armed with hefty research and development budgets have scrambled to deliver software that could make their customers' lives easier, but thus far the products have failed to live up to their billing, at least according to users here this week at the Storage Decisions conference.

IBM Corp. and Intel Corp. have decided to make blade servers together: The two companies announced a partnership Tuesday that could shake up the competitive landscape for some of the server world's freshest technology.

Hewlett-Packard Co. next week will announce a new version of a key product in its storage software portfolio, adding in support for other vendors' hardware as part of the software upgrade.

Unlike its main rivals, Intel Corp. will wait several years before it rolls out dual-core processor technology that makes one processor work almost as efficiently as two.