Dan Neel

With emphasis on storage management software, Linux-based storage virtualization, and the open storage architectures proposed by the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association), IBM Corp. on Tuesday outlined its enterprise storage roadmap.

With emphasis on storage management software, Linux-based storage virtualization, and the open storage architectures proposed by the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association), IBM Corp. on Tuesday outlined its enterprise storage roadmap.

In the midst of a shift from emphasis on storage hardware to storage software, Veritas Software Corp.'s president and CEO Gary Bloom can smile, content with the fact that the Mountain View, Calif.-based software company has never manufactured a piece of hardware

Grid company Platform Computing Inc. on Tuesday added business intelligence technology from Cognos Inc. to its rapidly evolving suite of grid computing software.

As sparks flew this week between IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. in the RISC-based server market, Compaq Computer Corp. quietly began letting potential customers of its future RISC-based EV7 AlphaServers kick the tires of the yet-to-be released systems.

Looking to attack a midmarket for Unix servers previously untapped by the computer maker, Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday introduced the Sun Fire 12000 (12K), a slimmed-down, modular, and upgradable version of Sun's high-end Sun Fire 15000 "Starcat" server.

A number of major vendors aimed the idea of grid computing, thus far prominent primarily in academic and scientific communities, squarely at the enterprise during the Global Grid Forum in Toronto in February.

Storage software giant Veritas Software on March 11 announced an upgrade to one of its flagship storage software products, NetBackup 4.5.