Dan Neel

Industry-wide support for the next-generation switched-fabric I/O technology called Infiniband was on display last week as a wave of Infiniband component vendors showed their wares at the Intel Developer

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A number of major vendors this week 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.

A number of major vendors this week 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 another step toward the commercial acceptance of distributed grid computing, Platform Computing Inc. on Tuesday at the Global Grid Forum in Toronto announced the beta availability of Platform Globus, a commercial software suite packed with technology from the Globus Toolkit.

Targeting what it sees as a quickly expanding market for small to medium-sized business servers, IBM introduced an upgraded p610 Unix server with a twist: internal RAID 5 storage.

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday extended an significant olive branch to the Linux community by embracing a wide range of Linux initiatives surrounding Sun's Solaris operating environment.

Determined to establish itself as a premier storage provider for the enterprise, Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday will announce it has simplified its storage software offering and will roll out improved storage hardware sharpened by technology licensed from Vicom Systems Inc.