Clint Boulton

IBM is set to make a major splash in the storage market next week at a press event in New York, where it will introduce its renovated disk family to help customers face rising tides of unstructured data. According to information obtained by internetnews.com, the upgrades will include two new disk subsystems — the DS6000 […]

Keeping its promise to migrate toward more flexible pricing for its software, Computer Associates has unleashed Measured Workload Pricing for its mainframe management products. CA doesn’t use the term, but Mark Combs, senior vice president of corporate pricing at CA, acknowledged that Measure Workload Pricing is a form of utility computing, an increasingly popular pricing […]

IBM is outfitting legacy mainframe lines with its latest on-demand strategy. Big Blue said it plans to offer new capabilities for its zSeries mainframes, such as virtualization software support, as well as a new on-demand banking center. It will also work with several universities to teach students how to set up mainframes, particularly in China. […]

Storage systems vendor Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) created a singular product and services organization as its next step to improving operations. Ken Beaudry, formerly senior vice president and general manager of HDS’ Global Solution Services, will run the unit as executive vice president and general manager of the organization under HDS President and COO Dave […]

Placing greater emphasis on availability than in any previous release of its software, IBM released detailed enhancements to its core WebSphere Application Server (WAS). The announcement is part of IBM’s major upgrade of its WebSphere middleware product lines, its biggest in about two years. WAS 6 cuts downtime and failover from five minutes to a […]

NEW YORK — HP ratcheted up its small and medium-sized business (SMB) effort Tuesday, introducing a raft of new hardware at TechXNY 2004 as part of its Smart Office plan. Meanwhile, rival IBM also appealed to SMBs, unveiling new Unix servers. Kevin Gilroy, senior vice president and general manager of SMB at HP, led other […]

Storage gear provider McData has signed a new OEM contract with IBM that will improve its ability to sell data switches and directors in Europe and the Asia-Pacific regions. IBM will sell McData Sphereon fabric switches and Intrepid directors, as well as its Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager software under its TotalStorage brand in a deal […]

Business delivery software maker Captaris agreed to acquire Information Management Research (IMR), an archiving and records management software maker, for $26.5 million in cash. Captaris made the play because it believes IMR’s flagship Alchemy product line will help in its bid to become a leader in retrieving and archiving important business information rendered as fixed […]

SunGard said its board of directors has unanimously decided to spin off its disaster recovery business and take it public through a tax-free distribution of shares. SunGard, of Wayne, Penn., said the split will help the company streamline its focus, which will lead to better performance for each entity going forward. The company’s software and […]

Internet business entrepreneur Halsey Minor has set up a $50 million venture capital fund for piping applications over the Web as subscription services. Minor said he established the On Demand Venture Fund as a “springboard” to accelerate the development and deployment of on-demand applications at a time when Internet-based software delivery has become extremely popular […]

EMC unveiled a slew of tools for its information lifecycle management strategy Monday, including new replication software to ensure that critical content is backed up over long distances. The Hopkinton, Mass., storage vendor has created Open Replicator for Symmetrix, which runs on the company’s DMX array that can push and pull data for any storage […]

When Ovum Research analyst Alan Pelz-Sharpe revealed that Oracle would be entering the market for managing content, he didn’t surprise many folks so much as confirm a rumor. Tsunami, the software maker’s code-name for the offering, had been circulating for about a year. And rivals such as Interwoven and EMC’s Documentum expressed concern that the […]