In a move that could signal EMC's commitment to offering an open, flexible, component-based storage area network (SAN) architecture based on newly acquired Data General's technology, Data General has signed an OEM agreement with switch maker Brocade Communications Systems.
If Project Monterey partners Compaq, IBM, Intel, SCO, and Sequent have their way, the year 2000 - which for a time was expected to be the death knell for Unix - could in fact herald a new era for the OS.
The cold and fog of Santa Cruz, California, in August couldn't dampen the spirits of Unix enthusiasts as this year's SCO Forum kicked off with Druid prognosticator Sumad Artsmen, the alter-ego of SCO evangelist Tony Baines, declaring the "new millennium is now" for Unix.
In a move that underscores its message that "the network is the computer," Sun Microsystems Inc. has cut prices on its entire line of 64-bit SparcEngine compactPCI (cPCI) board products, which could ultimately mean lower prices on high-availability telecommunications networking devices for customers.
The drop, which represents as much as a 30 percent cut in price, is part of Sun's road map to help its OEM (original equipment manufacturer) partners reach "five nines," or 99.999 percent availability, with their high-end networking products.
IBM will stray from a key component of its high-end storage subsystems in an effort to move ahead with connectivity in 2000.
Big Blue next week will introduce the next generation of its Seascape enterprise storage products, currently code-named Shark and soon to be called IBM Enterprise Storage Server, with platform support for Unix, Windows NT, and mainframe environments.
Hoping to offer greater flexibility for online analytical processing (OLAP) analysis, IBM next week will introduce the latest version of its DB2 OLAP Server with support for both relational and multidimensional data.
In an effort to differentiate its servers in what is becoming a highly "commoditised" market, IBM will step away from Intel to develop its own core logic for the next big shift in chip technology -- the move to IA-64.
Compaq Computer and IBM are stepping up their presence in the storage area network (SAN) market.
Compaq Computer and IBM are stepping up their presence in the storage area network (SAN) market.
In an effort to keep up with the Joneses -- the likes of IBM and Microsoft, in this case -- Oracle announced on Monday it has acquired data mining software vendor Thinking Machines.
Without making an official announcement and after directly notifying only customers who pay for support, Oracle last month posted a patch on its Web site for a bug that leaves customers running Oracle8 databases on Unix vulnerable to hackers.
The mobile database market will heat up next week as two of the biggest relational database vendors, Oracle and IBM, announce aggressive plans to provide database functionality on a variety of portable devices.
Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison has said that his company is shooting for a 100 per cent online sales model by the end of this year.
Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday bolstered its storage area network (SAN) offerings, focusing on the importance of scalability, flexibility, and availability, while introducing a new line SAN-related products centered around what the company is calling its Equation Architecture.
Two separate standards groups, the Meta Data Coalition (MDC) and the Object Management Group (OMG), have agreed to take on the daunting task of developing a single set of standards for meta data.