Clint Boulton

Thanks to major advancements in its autonomic computing technology, IBM has updated its Tivoli management software, offering customers a map that identifies failures in Web transactions. IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance 5.3 allows organizations to see business transactions as they flow through an IT environment, as well as discover what systems the transactions use. […]

StorageTek took another step in filling out its information lifecycle management portfolio this week, acquiring software maker Storability. The companies did not disclose financial terms of the agreement, but StorageTek purchased all intellectual property, software license agreements and 40 customer contracts of Storability. Some 70 employees will join StorageTek, remaining in Storability’s Southborough, Mass., headquarters […]

UPDATED: Citing a loss of confidence, PeopleSoft’s board of directors said it fired President and CEO Craig Conway in a unanimous vote that could have significant ramifications for the fate of the enterprise software company. The surprise announcement said PeopleSoft Founder and Chairman Dave Duffield will immediately take his place, just as PeopleSoft is in […]

Sun Microsystems and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) built a supercomputer that uses 3-D graphics to help researchers analyze climate patterns and homeland security across the United States. Sun and the research center, which is out of the University of Texas at Austin, constructed Maverick over the past year to go live Friday on […]

With big fish such as EMC and IBM in its sights, Topio unveiled the next generation of its Topio Data Protection Suite (TDPS) to protect against natural and synthetic disasters that threaten data integrity. The Santa Clara, Calif., company presents an alternative to more expensive storage system replication offerings of larger rivals, allowing users to […]

IBM secured the top spot in the rankings for world’s fastest supercomputer as Blue Gene/L ran at a sustained speed of 36.01 teraflops, or trillions of calculations per second, this week. Blue Gene/L knocked NEC’s Earth Simulator from the top spot on the Top 500 list for world’s fastest computers. At a peak speed of […]

Computer Associates said it would cut 800 employees from its payroll in order to save $70 million per year. The move is part of the Islandia, N.Y.-based management software maker’s plan to streamline operations. CA officials said on a conference call they anticipate the restructuring will cost approximately $40 million, or four cents per diluted […]

Microsoft is expanding business intelligence capabilities in its database software with two free software service packs that augment the reporting capabilities in SQL Server 2000. The packs were unveiled Wednesday at the annual 2004 Professional Association of SQL Server Community Summit in Orlando, Fla., where the company also updated attendees on product name changes and […]

Banks are facing a new federal regulation that greenlights digital checks in lieu of paper documents. While a hassle for the financial services space, Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act, or Check-21, is creating new opportunities for archiving service providers and storage vendors. Check 21 ends the float time for checks to clear, freeing […]

One week after touting its grid computing and other technologies on Wall Street for financial services customers, Sun Microsystems agreed to provide a Paris-based bank with more than 100 servers to power its transactions. Under the deal, Sun will provide Equity and Derivatives BNP Paribas 116 Sun Fire V20z servers powered by AMD’s Opteron chips […]

Sifting through millions of documents to locate a valuable few is tedious enough, but what happens when those files are scattered across different repositories? It is unlikely someone will find the desired files. IBM hopes to assuage that pain with its latest DB2 Information Integrator software, which can call up files from multiple data sources […]

UPDATED: Engineers at Sun Microsystems have agreed to sift through Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and Java Data Objects (JDO) to create a single persistence model, called Plain Old Java Object (POJO), for developers. Sun said in a statement the idea is to unify the Java community, which has been fractured by the coexistence of EJB , […]