Clint Boulton

Intalio President and Chief Strategy Officer Ismael Ghalimi is so sure that his company is hitting a sweet spot in business process management that he’s confident no one comes close to competing. That sweet spot is providing the leading BPM software platform for market leader SAP’s NetWeaver application suite; as Ghalimi told internetnews.com, “enterprise applications […]

Storage vendors are racing to update their product lines, and rolling out new announcements at this week’s Storage Networking World conference in Orlando. For example, competing storage fabric vendors took the wraps of new product plans, with Brocade unveiling a mid-range switch and McData promising a refresh of its Enterprise Operating System software. Brocade is […]

IBM continued to apply pressure to rival EMC on the virtualization front with products that help customers improve how they shuttle data throughout different storage systems. SAN File System, SAN Volume Controller and Productivity Center from IBM’s TotalStorage Open Software family have new application availability features that officials say improve the company’s ability to offer […]

With so many vendors pitching their own flavors of information lifecycle management (ILM), the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) this week is carving out a general definition of the process to help interested parties get started. At the Storage Networking World 2004 show in Orlando, Fla., ILM will be defined as a roadmap around which […]

When HP recently announced changes to its Utility Data Center (UDC), it was widely reported that the company was fleeing its utility computing strategy and throwing up the white flag in defeat. Nothing could be further from the truth, said HP Utility Computing Manager Jay Chitnis, even HP repositioned staffers within the organization as a […]

Standards body OASIS has made good on its plans to develop the Data Center Markup Language (DCML), setting up four technical committees to foster utility computing standards. The DCML is a language that prescribes schemas for how servers, networks, applications and services can corral siloed data in an automated, on-demand fashion. Improving data center performance […]

IBM has agreed to join the Liberty Alliance as a board member, lodging a stepping stone to a bridge between two organizations that work on distributed computing methods. In the agreement, IBM plans to support Liberty’s federated identity specifications across its Tivoli identity management product line. Karla Norsworthy, vice president of software standards at IBM, […]

Taking advantage of compliance regulations to pursue new revenue streams, IBM said it has created a new storage device and software packages to make it easier for businesses to meet record retention policies. Increasingly, enterprises who trade in valuable information are making sure they retain data for specific periods of time, in accordance with Basel […]

Sun Microsystems chose software integrator SeeBeyond to help make its Java Enterprise System suite more accommodating to service-oriented architectures . In the technology and marketing agreement announced Tuesday, Sun and SeeBeyond will ensure SOAs, which allow assets such as software to be reused to save time and cut costs, and composite application delivery via the […]

Veritas Software has finished the first major overhaul to the application performance management (APM) software the outfit purchased when it acquired Precise Software Solutions in 2003. Geared to bolster the company’s utility computing effort, i3 7.0 helps IT administrators to compare performance and availability characteristics of large applications over clusters, making sure the proper service […]

Adding a touch of mobility to its service-oriented architecture (SOA) line, BEA Systems introduced new server software to enable distributed computing on PDAs and smartphones. MobileAware Interaction Server, BEA WebLogic Edition finds and aggregates data that gets spread across a network, making it more accessible. BEA said in a statement the product can ensure the […]

Actional said it has merged with Westbridge Technology in a marriage of two small companies that specialize in managing Web services . Financial terms of the arrangement were not disclosed. However, company officials called the agreement between the Mountain View, Calif., based firms a merger of equals, with Westbridge CEO Tom Ryan taking the helm […]