Infrastructure

Like the notion of soup to nuts, virtualization is a technology term that encompasses everything from servers and storage to applications and operating systems. While the concepts have been employed in the mainframe and Unix space, companies are bringing the technology to the x86 and Windows worlds in a big way.

Sun Microsystems Inc. launched three

Virtualization is a model of computing designed to logically bring together a range of disbursed IT hardware devices to create a collective, singularly-functioning supercomputer of sorts. It is only now reaching mainstream status within organizations.

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Microsoft chief identity and access architect Kim Cameron believes the inroads Microsoft is making into creating "trusted identities" through the online identity verification tool in Vista, CardSpace, will solve consumer-level security and identity authentication issues.

IBM Corp.'s US$1.6 billion purchase of content management software maker FileNet Corp. will establish Big Blue as the leading player in the enterprise content management (ECM) space, says one Canadian analyst.

Storage area network (SAN) switch vendor Brocade is buying rival McData for US$713 million in shares. Brocade aims to save $100 million a year through headcount reductions and other cost-savings. Both company boards have approved the acquisition.