Clint Boulton

In 2000, IBM embarked on an ambitious strategy to boost Unix server market share after years of watching its sales suffer at the hands of rivals HP and Sun Microsystems. The company trotted out its first Power4 machines in 2001 and promptly set about devouring market share from its rivals, watching its plot in the […]

In one of the largest identity management software contracts to date, IBM agreed to provide single sign-on Web services and other software to mobile communications entity Orange. Orange will use IBM’s Tivoli Access Manager, WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Everyplace Access to let its 50 million mobile phone customers securely access mobile services, including games, online […]

Delivering on its promise to blend content management with storage management after its purchase of Documentum last year, EMC issued new software Thursday to help companies shuttle data across their computer systems. EMC’s Documentum Content Storage Services represents the first time a company has directly spliced software platforms from the enterprise content management (ECM) and […]

With interest in secure single sign-on services reaching new heights, Oracle and Novell unveiled new identity management products at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference in San Diego. Oracle revealed enhancements to its Oracle Identity Management (OIM) product, including security features based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) model and improved federated identity features from its stealth […]

Hyperion agreed to acquire QIQ Solutions Pty Limited for an undisclosed sum, as the number of acquisitions in the business intelligence (BI) software space continues to mount. The Sunnyvale, Calif., applications maker also promoted President and COO Godfrey Sullivan to CEO and announced second-quarter earnings Wednesday. Based in Sydney, Australia, QIQ makes analytics applications that […]

With the help of strong revenues from its VMware, Documentum and Legato subsidiaries, EMC pulled in a profit of $193 million in the second quarter, more than double its profit in the second quarter of 2003. Net income for the quarter was $193 million or 8 cents per diluted share, which was 136 percent higher […]

Building on its goal to offer secure Web services, start-up Reactivity has rolled out an integrated suite of hardware and software that allows IT managers to safely provision and run software-as-a-service systems for C++ environments. The Reactivity Secure Deployment System consists of two upgraded hardware appliance components laden with special performance optimization and workflow software: […]

In its bid to sign up more influential members for single sign-on services, Liberty Alliance Monday said it has accepted the bids of Intel and Oracle as sponsor members. The move is somewhat of a coup for the identity management organization, which is looking to provide an alternative software service to Microsoft’s Passport product. Like […]

Following up on its promise to deliver service-oriented architecture (SOA) products at a time when the market has few, BEA Systems trotted out a new version of its application server that combines application creation with business process management (BPM). The software maker believes BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition is an attractive offer at a time […]

Looking to improve its offerings for preserving data cost-effectively, EMC has refreshed its Centera line by reworking the archiving software so it can be accessed by disparate platforms. The Centera Universal Access (CUA), a software appliance unveiled today, supports non-integrated applications built on Windows, Linux, Unix and IBM’s iSeries platforms. It helps IT managers store […]

Citing strong enterprise sales, Dell said earnings per share for the second quarter would be 31 cents, up 2 cents from original estimates and 29 percent from the same quarter a year ago. The company raised its guidance at its stockholders meeting, where it anointed President Kevin Rollins as CEO Friday. Rollins is filling the […]

Looking to overcome the tedious nature of software installation, IBM has cooked up a technology and XML schema to improve self-configuring capabilities for on-demand infrastructures. The Solution Installation for Autonomic Computing, which IBM has also submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for approval as an industry standard, makes it possible for developers to […]