Clint Boulton

BEA Systems is offering developers new tools to easily build Java applications based on the company’s Liquid Computing vision. As part of its service-oriented architecture vision, company officials also demonstrated Alchemy, the company’s mobile version of that vision to help match computing services with the needs of users on the go. Unveiled at BEA eWorld […]

PeopleSoft has reached a blanket agreement with disgruntled shareholders who had filed class-action lawsuits in protest of the Customer Assurance Program (CAP), formed after Oracle moved to acquire PeopleSoft last June. The Pleasanton, Calif. software maker, now locked in a legal battle for control with Oracle, also said that its board of directors unanimously recommended […]

Dell and EMC Wednesday dusted off their tight partnership Wednesday by unleashing a new storage area network server for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB) that is as aggressively priced as it is full featured. Competition for market share in the SMB space has been sizzling for the past year in the IT community and there […]

NEW YORK — Hosted delivery and business intelligence software will create surging demand for customer relationship management (CRM) applications, a Siebel executive said at during a keynote at DCI’s Customer Relationship Management Conference and Technology Showcase. Executive Vice President David Schmaier filled in for last-minute scratch Thomas Siebel, the former CEO and company founder who […]

Little by little, Microsoft is peeling away the layers of SQL Server 2005, the company’s forthcoming database server software. The Redmond, Wash., software giant unveiled new native security encryption and decryption support as well as government security certification. Operating under the “Do More with Less” mantra at its TechEd 2004 conference in San Diego, Calif., […]

HP threw its hat into service-oriented architecture (SOA) ring Tuesday, announcing new software and services to protect and serve the delivery of distributed computing models for data centers. HP is committing to the SOA model as another stepping stone in its quest to provide a fluid, dynamic “Adaptive Enterprise” for customers looking to automate data […]

A few years ago, IBM promised a file system with multi-vendor interoperability. On Tuesday, Big Blue made good on its word with the next iteration of its TotalStorage SAN File System (SFS). It supports storage devices from rivals EMC , HP and Hitachi . SFS, formerly code-named “Storage Tank,” was launched last October as a […]

Buoyed by support from key partners, Microsoft said Monday it has taken its feature pack for consolidating data from Exchange Server 2003 on network attached storage (NAS) devices running Windows Storage Server 2003 to general availability. Original equipment manufacturers EMC , Dell and HP will be offering the feature pack on their NAS devices. The […]

Much like the trend of Web services the last couple of years, service-oriented architectures are increasingly getting the (not undue) attention of their software ancestors. In the last several weeks, IBM, BEA Systems, Oracle and smaller companies, such as Cape Clear and Systinet have been making announcements surrounding SOAs , which describe distributed methods of […]

Angling for a bigger bite from the burgeoning Web services management market, software maker Infravio has completed a new federated registry to help propel collaboration within enterprises and Web services across businesses. Infravio President and CEO Jeff Tonkel said Infravio’s X-registry is a central repository of available services within an enterprise, including the configurations, implementation […]

Looking to expand its offerings for the lucrative small and medium business (SMB) space, EMC Thursday introduced the NetWin 110, the second member to a NAS storage system family tailored to run Microsoft Windows software. EMC NAS Product Marketing Manager Tom Joyce said the 110 is designed for customers who would like to add storage […]

BEA Systems boosted service-oriented architecture buzz Wednesday when it unveiled “Project Beehive” as an open source foundation. The goal is to make it easier and more efficient to write applications and build SOAs using Java . The move is designed to position Java development against companies that don’t use the programming language, most notably Microsoft […]