Clint Boulton

NEW YORK — Experts on autonomic computing agree: The developing sector is faced with a paucity of management standards and confusion about what vendors are currently providing to the developing sector. During a panel discussion Tuesday about “Self-managing Systems: Views and Visions” as part of the inaugural International Conference on Autonomic Computing here, software engineers […]

Systinet announced a new CEO and a slew of products geared to solidify its status as a provider of distributed computing software, a move that positions the company to take advantage of the hot service-oriented architecture sector. The Cambridge, Mass., company, which also banked $10.5 million in financing led by Warburg Pincus, lured Thomas Erickson […]

IBM announced new service-oriented architecture design Centers at an inaugural event in Toronto Tuesday. SOAs are models for distributed computing aimed at helping enterprise tackle the oft-dreaded dilemma of integrating disparate applications. The idea is to create a more agile, flexible environment for business processes, such as supply chain management or human resource management. They […]

Web services security, a bugbear in the adoption of distributed computing architectures, is one step closer to being finalized. The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) said it has finished its Basic Security Profile Working Group Draft and is making it available in order to solicit feedback from the Web services community. The Basic Security Profile […]

Although Microsoft recently backed off plans to package three core business software applications as one offering called “Jupiter,” the company is hardly giving up on the separate components, believing they will sell as standalone products. To that end, the company unveiled a service upgrade pack for its Commerce Server 2002 application Monday, and laid out […]

Discussion about what may be the most exciting and controversial concept in Web development will be the main course on the menu at the 13th annual World Wide Web Conference in New York next week, according to event chairman Dr. Stuart Feldman. In offering a taste of what attendees can expect, Feldman, also head of […]

While it’s tempting to think that IBM may be late in the game to information lifecycle management (ILM), the company insists that such cradle-to-grave management is just one important piece of a more broad strategy: e-business on-demand, the company’s ambitious task of bringing computing to end-users more efficiently than ever before. ILM represents a shifting […]

Months after announcing plans to divest The Yankee Group, Reuters followed through on its word Thursday, agreeing to sell the telecom research firm to Monitor Clipper Partners and private investors for an undisclosed sum. According to Reuters spokesperson Kyle Arteaga, Reuters opted to sell the popular research firm to focus on its core business, which […]

Positioning its high-performance technical computing offerings to reach more customers, IBM has opened its first Deep Computing Capacity on Demand center in Europe. The facility, located in Montpellier, France, will offer customers access to IBM eServer pSeries AIX or Linux servers and xSeries systems running Linux or Microsoft Windows. It is the second such building […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Months after its competition trumpeted information lifecycle management, IBM leapt onto the ILM bandwagon Wednesday with a new storage strategy that combines ILM, virtualization and tiered storage with the company’s broad on-demand approach. At a press event here, IBM executives promised to integrate and simplify storage management in order to enable users […]

Analysts with an XML and Web services research firm have concluded that the busy Web services management sector has become fragmented and is primed for consolidation in the near future. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing for the sector, according to ZapThink Senior Analyst Jason Bloomberg. “What’s happening is the players in the space […]

Brocade Communications Systems and IBM embarked on the next leg of their six-year partnership, agreeing to bundle new Brocade storage area network (SAN) switch modules with the IBM eServer BladeCenter to provide considerable server consolidation. Code-named “Blazer” by Brocade, the Enterprise and Entry SAN Switch module is the latest addition to the San Jose, Calif., […]