McDonald Bradley Buys SPS Federal Business Unit

Nov 27, 2006 | McDonald Bradley Inc., an information technology solutions provider to the government marketplace, has acquired the Federal Business Unit of Software Performance Systems Inc. (SPS) of Falls Church, VA for $15...
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IT Security Conferences Announced

Nov 27, 2006 | Unatek Inc. has announced that marketplace issues will dominate the panel sessions at the World Summit on Intrusion Prevention (WSIP) and Web Services Security Conference (WSSC). WSIP and WSSC are...
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ISVs Show Early Support For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Nov 27, 2006 | Red Hat has announced that strategic members of Red Hat's broad ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISVs) are already supporting and testing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2 to...
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Virtualization Providers Combine VMware and DataCore Solutions

Nov 27, 2006 | Following the conclusion of VMworld 2006 in Los Angeles, virtualization solution providers Entisys Solutions, Foedus, Solutions II, Govplace and The Pinnacle Group announced that "Total Enterprise Virtualization" -- the combination of virtualization solutions into...
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IBM Offers Federated Identity Management

Nov 27, 2006 | IBM has announced new security software built for small and mid-size organizations that wish to establish a single password to log on to organizations outside of their internal network, and to more effectively manage identities across their infrastructure.
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JBoss Expands Open Source SOA Platform

Nov 27, 2006 | JBoss, a division of Red Hat, has introduced JBoss ESB, which rounds out the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS), an open source platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA). With the addition of JBoss ESB...
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NCDM Wins Bandwidth Challenge at SC06

Nov 27, 2006 | The National Center for Data Mining at UIC has won the HPC Bandwidth Challenge at SC06 in Tampa, FL, sponsored by Qwest. Nine institutions participated in the competition. NCDM won by sustaining a...
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BEA Survey Highlights Benefits of SOA

Nov 27, 2006 | BEA Systems Inc. has announced the results of a cost and benefits survey of service-oriented architecture (SOA) decision makers, which found that SOA is quickly evolving from pilot or departmental projects to enterprise-wide initiatives driven by chief information officers (CIOs). Nearly 50 percent of those surveyed have spent over $1 million to date on SOA, explaining why CIOs are increasingly the main sponsors of the strategy.
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Unisys Announces New ES7000/One platform

Nov 27, 2006 | Unisys Corporation has announced new models of its ES7000/one Enterprise Server line employing the Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7100 Series -- codenamed "Tulsa." According to the company, the new ES7000/one platform delivers a...
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Voltaire Enhances GridVision

Nov 20, 2006 | Voltaire has announced new scalable fabric management software that is designed to deliver peak performance for high performance clusters and grids. GridVision Enhanced is a server-based version of Voltaire's InfiniBand fabric management software that,...
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DataDirect Networks Debuts S2A Cluster Storage Solutions

Nov 20, 2006 | DataDirect Networks Inc. has unveiled the S2A Cluster Storage Solutions. The S2A Cluster Storage Solutions are specifically designed for high performance, high capacity network cluster applications and, according to DataDirect, deliver the industry's...
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QLogic Unveils End-to-End HPC Networking

Nov 20, 2006 | QLogic Corp. has unveiled its new portfolio of InfiniPath Host Channel Adapters (HCAs) and SilverStorm switches. QLogic showcased the products and pervasive interoperability with popular applications, along with Message Passing...
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Appistry Selected by Geospatial Intelligence Leaders

Nov 20, 2006 | Appistry has announced that three leaders in the geospatial intelligence industry have deployed Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (Appistry EAF) as the platform for their geospatial intelligence applications. GeoEye and the...
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Cordys Expands U.S. Operations

Nov 20, 2006 | Cordys, a provider of SOA solutions, today announced the next phase of its global expansion focused on increasing capacity to service existing and new global clients headquartered in the U.S.Read more...

Sun Grid Compute Utility Attracts ISV Applications

Nov 20, 2006 | Sun Microsystems Inc. has announced that more than 15 independent software vendors (ISVs) are working with Sun to determine how to host their applications on the Sun Grid Compute Utility. The Sun...
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Unisys Adds SOA Capabilities to Payment Systems

Nov 20, 2006 | Unisys Corporation has announced the Unisys SOA Vision suite, a set of payment processing products comprising web services that, according to the company, enable clients to build, maintain and capitalize...
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University of Oklahoma Adopts Platform LSF

Nov 20, 2006 | The University of Oklahoma's (OU) Supercomputing Center for Education and Research (OSCER) plans to standardize on Platform LSF for their high performance computing (HPC) needs and to serve the OU science and engineering...
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100 Gigabit Ethernet Demonstrated at SC06

Nov 20, 2006 | A first-ever demonstration of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100 GbE) technology by a team of industry partners, including Finisar, Infinera, Internet2, Level 3 Communications, and University of California at Santa Cruz, shows that 100...
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EMC Corp. Releases Rainfinity 7.0

Nov 20, 2006 | EMC Corp. has announced version 7.0 of the Rainfinity Global File Virtualization solution, extending EMC's capabilities in file virtualization and management to support enterprise archiving from heterogeneous file and network...
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Voltaire InfiniBand Added To Sun's Grid Portfolio

Nov 20, 2006 | Voltaire has entered into a global agreement with Sun Microsystems that brings Voltaire's products into Sun's portfolio of technologies for building integrated high performance computing systems. Included in the terms of the agreement are...
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Dubai World Migrates Portal to Oracle

Nov 20, 2006 | Oracle has announced that Dubai World's new portal www.DubaiTrade.ae, which combines the electronic services for Dubai Ports, Customs & Freezone Corporation, migrated to Oracle Database 10g, and Oracle Application...
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Altair Announces General Availability of PBS Professional 8.0

Nov 20, 2006 | Altair Engineering Inc. has announced the public release of PBS Professional 8.0. This latest generation of Altair's workload management software provides enhanced functionality and support for new hardware platforms. The announcement was made at Supercomputing 2006 (SC06), the international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis.
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Evergrid Enters HPC Market with Virtualization Software

Nov 20, 2006 | Evergrid Inc. has announced its entry into the high performance computing market, with patent pending high availability and resource management software that lets massively parallelized distributed applications run at near 100 percent reliability on high performance computing clusters. The Evergrid software sits between the operating system and the applications, and captures the collective state of the application and its IO across all processors.
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Meriton Selected by SEEREN2, Deployed by Internet2

Nov 20, 2006 | Meriton Networks, provider of Agile Optical Networking, has been selected to supply high-speed optical networking equipment for SEEREN2, the South-East European Research and Education Network. SEEREN2 is led by GRNET, the Greek national...
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Exludus Debuts Replicator 2.1

Nov 20, 2006 | eXludus Technologies Inc. introduced version 2.1 of RepliCator, the company's software product for compute clusters and grids. According to eXludus, RepliCator 2.1 is the world's first cluster/Grid software to provide fault-tolerant and data resilient data transfer from any source to any destination. RepliCator's Asynchronous Results Transfer capability can be applied to output files or to input files.
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