Clint Boulton

E-mail archiving specialist Zantaz moved to add litigation support software and bolster its compliance and discovery management services this week when it agreed to acquire privately held Steelpoint Technologies for an undisclosed sum. The Pleasanton, Calif., vendor will also pick up a solid client base should its bid for the Boston-based company succeed. Steelpoint offers […]

UPDATED: The concept of information lifecycle management (ILM) continues to get ringing endorsements from the storage sector’s top companies. The latest vendor to throw its support the ILM way is StorageTek , which plans to announce archive software geared to help administrators manage IBM’s DB2 database on mainframes. The Louisville, Colo., company will unveil Lifecycle […]

The X3D has achieved landmark support, as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) this week approved the run-time standard that will allow 3D content to be shuttled across networks as a service. X3D is the Web3D Consortium’s open, XML-based file format for allowing 3D communication in real-time across networks and among applications. 3DLabs, HP and […]

HP is acquiring IT services provider Synstar for $297 million in cash to shore up its overseas presence as it battles IBM’s Global Services division. HP’s Global Investments B.V. subsidiary agreed to buy the U.K.-based provider of managed services geared to deliver business availability across desktop configuration and data center environments. Synstar serves 1,500 customers […]

The software industry has had its fair share of acquisitions in the last couple of years and at least one research firm predicts the trend will continue. The 451 said the network and application management market is poised for a great deal of consolidation. The New York-based company said vendors such as Hewlett Packard, IBM, […]

Sinking its teeth deeper into the health care industry, IBM this week agreed to let Mayo Clinic use its Blue Gene supercomputer to research diseases. The goal is to tap into the abundance of new data to foster medical breakthroughs, according to a statement. Financial terms of the pact were not made public, but IBM […]

Open Text added another piece to its broadening enterprise content management (ECM) puzzle when it agreed to acquire Artesia Technologies for an undisclosed sum. Open Text of Waterloo, Ontario, described the transaction close as “imminent” in a statement. Privately held Artesia of Rockville, Md., specializes in managing digital assets, one of the many components experts […]

Looking to bolster its IP communications software stack, networking gear provider Avaya agreed to purchase audio conferencing specialist Spectel for $103 million in cash. Avaya, of Basking Ridge, N.J., said it expects to close the purchase of the Dublin, Ire.-based Spectel within 60 days. Spectel, which has offices stateside in Andover, Mass., has 210 employees […]

For the second straight week, IBM has announced a major Linux supercomputing deal with the U.S. Department of Defense. In a contract worth in the tens of millions, IBM agreed to provide a massive machine for the Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center (ARL MSRC), which will use it to advance the planning and […]

Sticking with previously announced plans to greatly improve the storage processing capabilities of its Xeon line, Intel unveiled the IOP332 Storage I/O Processor, along with faster DDR2 memory. Formerly code-named “Dobson,” the storage processor is geared to offer customers better RAID storage performance over previous generations, according to the chipmaker, whose partners IBM, Dell and […]

To give their sluggish supply chains a boost, companies are increasingly deploying Web services in applications at the edge of their networks, according to new research from The Yankee Group. The research firm found that some 70 percent of new IT spending is earmarked for integration technologies at the edge of the enterprise. The news […]

A young company with roots in the U.S. defense intelligence community is taking ontology — or the study of the relationship of agents such as Web services or XML data in a community — to service-oriented architectures (SOA). Unlike some software companies that focus on facilitating SOAs , Digital Harbor tries to show how Web […]