Clint Boulton

Dell dove into the increasingly popular server virtualization realm Monday by agreeing to use VMware’s software in new configurations of its two- and four-processor servers. Pete Morowski, vice president of software development, Dell Product Group, said on a conference call that new configurations of PowerEdge servers and Dell/EMC storage will be used to allow single […]

Sony Electronics has sent Write Once, Read Many (WORM) technology crawling through its tape drives to answer customer calls for better record keeping capabilities in storage devices. WORM is a technology that allows users to write data onto a disk just once. Data written in WORM-compatible disks is permanent and can be read any number […]

Looking to help businesses cut back on manual data entry errors during forms processing, Adobe Systems unveiled new software Monday that uses a barcode to better manage high-volume paper forms. Adobe, which competes with Microsoft and Macromedia to make software that helps businesses manage their data and present it more efficiently, has added 2-D barcode […]

Looking to improve the virtualization capabilities of its products, gear maker Topspin Communications said Monday that it has created a switch to pipe application, operating system, storage, and I/O resources to a server, on-demand. Using the speedy InfiniBand interconnect, the company has crafted its Boot over InfiniBand product to allow blade servers from the likes […]

Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems and SAP have wrapped up their specification for defining messages to retrieve specific types of metadata associated with a recipient. The spec, Web Services Metadata Exchange for Service Endpoints (WS-MetadataExchange), is the latest stone along the vendors’ roadmap to define unity and clarity of purpose for Web services, which allow applications […]

PeopleSoft’s customer assurance program (CAP) could tack on an additional $1.56 billion to Oracle’s current $9.4 billion offer for the rival applications company, according to a filing with the securities and exchange commission Thursday. If the pricing devices in the CAP were triggered by a successful takeover, Oracle could pay as much as $10.96 billion […]

Although thin and fat clients have served the computer industry well in the client/server era , a new study says more “rich clients” are needed in the shift to Web services. Without rich clients, the adoption of Web services, , which need to operate in a distributed fashion, will be slowed, according to a study […]

In a bid to add complementary tools for all major operating systems, Serena Software agreed Wednesday to acquire fellow software tools maker Merant for $380 million in cash and stock. Selling their wares in a market dubbed enterprise change management (ECM), Serena and Merant make software tools that allow developers to manage changes in software […]

Open source consortium Eclipse Foundation Wednesday rounded out its 12-member board of directors with four new members. The appointments put the finishing touches on a reorganization that began several months ago in an effort to bring the group closer to end users. Joining the software development tools group are: Eclipse Project Lead John Wiegand, of […]

IBM said it has added features to its database software for its eServer zSeries mainframes to help businesses improve and automate the flow of their information. DB2 Universal Database for z/OS 8.1 relies on the Armonk, N.Y. company’s autonomic capabilities in order to boost system performance and availability, as well as making it easier for […]

To bolster its network storage offerings, Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) on Tuesday said it will acquire storage gear maker 3ware for $150 million in cash and options to buy stock. 3ware crafts Serial ATA RAID storage solutions to pipe data backup, near-line storage and network-attached storage (NAS) applications that require a lot of power. […]

Oracle on Tuesday refuted reports that it had enlisted Microsoft’s help for its defense against the Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit. The DoJ is concerned about limiting competition in the enterprise applications market if Oracle’s $9.4 billion bid to buy PeopleSoft goes through. Oracle spokeswoman Jennifer Glass said the Redwood Shores, Calif., company has considered […]