Clint Boulton

Storage software maker Permabit unveiled its latest product to help address regulatory compliance issues Tuesday, with new software that safeguards e-mails, instant messages and other documents from destruction. One of the few companies to address specific content addressed storage (CAS), Permabit unveiled Permeon Compliance Vault to help enterprise meet the rules of such government regulations […]

Questionable accounting from a former financial executive has led VERITAS Software to restate its earnings for 2001 and 2002. The Mountain View, Calif. storage software maker said the restatement comes as the result of an internal investigation, concluded last Friday, that was supervised by the company’s board, along with independent legal and accounting experts. As […]

Buoyed by the momentum for products that help enterprises adhere to new government regulations about record-keeping, the storage software market posted a 17.7 percent growth in the fourth quarter 2003 year-over-year, according to market research firm IDC. Storage software sales for Q4 2003 totaled $1.78 billion. For the year, revenue grew 8 percent year-over-year in […]

As vendors look for ways to differentiate themselves with compliance packages for enterprises, some IT specialists are crafting regulation-specific offerings. IBM is one. The Armonk, N.Y. company said Monday it has put together a software, hardware and consulting services package to help banks meet the obligations of the forthcoming Basel II Capital Accord. Basel II […]

NEW YORK — HP’s move to acquire TruLogica Thursday was the latest bid in a spate of buys to bolster the system vendor’s computing strategy against rival IBM. David Gee, vice president of Adaptive Enterprise for Palo Alto, Calif.’s HP, said Dallas-based TruLogica, will help the company plug another hole — identity management software — […]

The beauty of storage area networks is that employees can gather, store and retrieve specific information from terabytes of data at a moment’s notice. But SANs can also be surprisingly vulnerable to attacks. Storage experts say that major vendors, such as EMC , IBM , HP and Hitachi Data Systems , have ignored security for […]

One year after sparking angry outcries from a rival specification faction, Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems and Tibco Software have completed their specification for a key component of Web services messaging. According to a Microsoft document, the four companies have published a completed a spec for WS-ReliableMessaging, which allows messages to be delivered between distributed applications […]

Continuing its aggressive acquisition spree to fill in missing pieces to its evolving computing strategy, HP moved to acquire identity management software maker TruLogica for an undisclosed sum. Privately held TruLogica is a Dallas-based provider of software that automates the process of managing user privileges across multiple technology systems to quickly let end users access […]

In keeping with the current theme of driving down the cost of servers for smaller businesses, IBM introduced two new servers that bring mainframe features to its Intel-based eServer xSeries line. The xSeries 206 and xSeries 306, priced at $499 and $1,339, respectively, were created to help IBM compete with rivals HP and Dell in […]

McData has asked EMC to write software for its switch platform to simplify management of complex storage area networks (SANs) . EMC’s virtualization and data migration applications will improve the ability of McData’s Intelligent Switch Platform to route information across diverse infrastructure in storage area network islands. The expansion of the companies’ partnership will help […]

If Oracle wants help from Microsoft as part of its bid to buy PeopleSoft, then the company may be stuck with wishful thinking. Microsoft has offered the U.S. Department of Justice a sworn statement that says it has no such plans to enter the same business market as Oracle within the next two years, according […]

UPDATE: In an effort to help heterogeneous storage systems interoperate, IBM Tuesday unveiled storage management software that automates and centralizes disparate infrastructure, the latest in its e-business on-demand strategy. The IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center is designed to improve management of multiple storage systems by using software to stitch a cluster of storage systems together. The […]