Clint Boulton

It’s no secret that Oracle has been considering a dip in the enterprise content management well, especially after companies like Microsoft , IBM and EMC made such a splash in the sector over the last year. This week, research group Ovum revealed that the Oracle enterprise content management (ECM) project, code-named Tsunami, will launch by […]

Sun Microsystems will take its network computing show to the Big Apple next week to lure Wall Street reps with the promise of greater savings on their IT infrastructure. Though officials refused to divulge specific details ahead of its third-quarter event, they did promise to excite the attendees with several product, service and customer announcements […]

IBM revealed a number of supercomputing projects from its Deep Computing unit, which should whet the appetites of those following the 12th Global Grid Forum (GGF) in Brussels, Belgium, next week. Priming the pump for the “Grids Deployed in the Enterprise” theme of the show, Big Blue unveiled a project in which it will help […]

Storage appliance maker Tacit Networks has hired InfiniBand networking veteran Charles Foley as president to guide the company’s growth in the burgeoning wide area file services (WAFS) market, internetnews.com has learned. Foley, former CEO and board member at InfiniCon Systems until he stepped down in August, will be responsible for the company’s business development and […]

Software asset management tools maker LogicLibrary Wednesday agreed to acquire security analysis provider BugScan for an undisclosed sum. The purchase is evidence that smaller companies are opting to reuse software assets instead of writing new code from scratch, which is part of what makes service-oriented architectures so attractive. Many companies, including IBM , Microsoft and […]

UPDATED: JPMorgan Chase & Co. has canceled its existing multi-billion-dollar technology outsourcing deal with IBM due to its recent merger with Bank One. In January 2005, JPMorgan Chase will regain control over the management of data centers, help desks, distributed computing, data networks and voice networks, as well as 4,000 employees and contractors. The firm […]

HP officials promised to use grid technology to get back in the enterprise storage game and help make up for horrid storage revenues last quarter. HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina made an impassioned appeal at the HP Americas StorageWorks Conference in Houston Tuesday, promising attendees that the company that helped usher in network storage […]

As more software development companies find ways to simplify the application development process, Borland Software is unveiling a new software delivery optimization (SDO) model built around that concept. The package includes tools that improve the way information is piped across an enterprise. At its Borland Conference 2004 Monday, the Scotts Valley, Calif., maker of infrastructure […]

UPDATED: Consolidation in the growing Web services management software space continued as Digital Evolution acquired Flamenco Networks for an undisclosed sum. The deal ends speculation about the status of Atlanta-based Flamenco, which had not issued product upgrade news since October 2003. The company makes specialized network infrastructure for enterprises that want to install secure, service-oriented […]

Computer Associates has completed a major overhaul of its storage management software, updating and packaging its products into one “integrated, intelligent” line. The Islandia, N.Y., enterprise software maker has refreshed BrightStor r11.1, positioning it as a new generation of intelligent storage management software to help businesses protect their corporate data assets with great cost efficiency. […]

Harking to the belief that Linux is replacing Windows, Unix and other operating systems in small and medium-sized businesses, IBM unveiled a new server line optimized for the open source operating system. Offered as an alternative to comparable, albeit more expensive, Unix systems from HP and Sun , the entry-level eServer OpenPower 720 is the […]

After a miserable quarter that saw its storage revenues plummet 15 percent, HP is looking to get back on the horse and reclaim some of its lost market share. The Palo Alto, Calif. company next week will prop up StorageWorks Grid, technology it introduced back in May to fuel its information lifecycle management strategy. Company […]