Clint Boulton

No sooner had the ink dried on its contract to buy automation specialist Consera Software than Hewlett-Packard unveiled new software developed by Consera that allows users to build graphical models linking their business with various IT components. The Palo Alto, Calif., systems giant announced plans to buy Consera on February 4 for an undisclosed sum, […]

UPDATE: Four technology companies published a new common specification that enables computing and consumer electronics devices to easily locate and connect to Web services. Microsoft, BEA Systems, Intel and Canon issued WS-Discovery to extend Web services architecture to computing and peripheral devices that are normally not reachable through Web services. Announced at the Intel Developer […]

As first reported by internetnews.com, several major technology companies have united under the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) to create a standard for making infrastructure from various vendors interoperate in utility computing environments. The work of the group shares common characteristics with a consortium led by EDS, Opsware and Computer Associates, which is working on […]

For IBM, self-healing computers are becoming self-evident. The Armonk, N.Y.-based company Monday issued an Autonomic Computing toolkit to help developers create self-managing characteristics to be used in data centers or other IT environments where on-demand or utility computing may be used. Written with the Java-based, open-source Eclipse platform, the kit is designed to help developers […]

There’s a lot of interest in Web services and the processes to create them. By most estimates, the market for applications that talk to one another to render services is a multi-billion-dollar affair. But it’s also rife with uncertainty because of a quagmire of standards developed to solve barriers like interoperability, security and manageability. Tom […]

Driven by strong enterprise sales of servers and storage systems, Dell Thursday reported revenues of $11.5 billion for the fourth quarter, or 18 percent higher than the same fourth quarter a year ago. The Round Rock, Texas company, which competes with IBM, HP and Sun Microsystems in the enterprise, said in a press statement that […]

Broadcom continued its push into storage this week, acquiring $18 million worth of patents from Cirrus Logic, a maker of analog, digital signal processing (DSP) and mixed-signal chipsets for consumer electronics. Broadcom, an Irvine, Calif. communications chipmaker, grabbed U.S. and foreign patents and patent applications concerning such magnetic and optical storage areas as read channel […]

Continuing its broad strategy of infrastructure simplification, IBM Thursday introduced new security features for its latest mainframe operating system software to help centralize control of an environment that requires several tiers of security. The z/OS 1.5 software will work with the Armonk, N.Y. company’s DB2 Universal Database for z/OS Version 8 software to provide multi-level […]

A new standards body has been formed to create a method for ensuring the interoperability of utility computing environments using products from different companies, internetnews.com has learned. According to a Distributed Management Task Force document obtained by internetnews.com, the new Utility Computing Working Group is co-chaired by one representative from IBM and VERITAS Software and […]

EMC’s announcement Monday of upgrades and new products across its entire family of networked storage established a couple of things, according to analysts. First, it showed how the Hopkinton, Mass., storage systems vendor is unifying its product lines along its information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy for managing content from its birth until it is ready […]

Antitrust lawyers of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recommended against Oracle’s $9.4 billion takeover attempt of rival PeopleSoft, in what could be a major setback for the enterprise software company. In a statement, PeopleSoft said the DOJ had issued a preliminary finding and that the DOJ expects to come to a conclusion about the […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday passed two key standards for helping computers get more information out of the applications they are processing and match content more appropriately for end-users. The standards body unveiled the Resource Definition Framework (RDF) and the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL) as part of its plan for the “Semantic […]