Clint Boulton

HyperRoll, a start-up that makes data aggregation software to amplify the performance of business intelligence (BI) applications, got a new skipper this week. The Mountain View, Calif. company announced Tuesday that Michael Bealmear has signed on as its chief executive officer. Bealmear has replaced Moshe Mor, chairman of the HyperRoll board and a general partner […]

In an event its investors and the curious public will no doubt be watching with great interest, PeopleSoft says it will hold its annual stockholders meeting March 25, moving it up from its usual date by two months. It is expected PeopleSoft will nominate four directors for re-election at the meeting. It is also expected […]

IBM will unravel even more of the yarn of its forthcoming DB2 Universal Database next Tuesday at EclipseCon to curry support from developers. While IBM has previously announced that Stinger will help DB2 interoperate with .NET development tools, IBM will pad DB2’s Java support at the show in Anaheim, Calif. DB2 8, or Stinger, as […]

The reorganization of Eclipse as a non-profit foundation will be the centerpiece of an event next week, organizers said Friday. The goal is to demonstrate the software tools created using the open-source Eclipse platform. But the consortium’s retrenching has left a familiar dissident unsatisfied. Sun Microsystems sent an open letter this week to Eclipse expressing […]

IBM Thursday said it will merge its server group and microelectronics division into one entity to better fulfill such business objectives as spreading the sphere of its POWER processor architecture over the market. The new group will officially be called the Systems and Technology Group, and will be co-headed by senior vice president for technology […]

Quest Software, which makes management software tailored for Microsoft platforms, agreed to acquire smaller rival Aelita Software for $115 million in cash. Should the purchase succeed, Quest would fortify its Microsoft management portfolio. Aelita is considered a leading provider of systems management software that improves performance in Microsoft’s Active Directory and Exchange environments. Exchange is […]

Oracle President Chuck Phillips promised to go after Microsoft and others in several market segments this year, including trying to lure SQL server users to its 10g database platform and Windows users to its own evolving collaboration suite. Phillips said Oracle would be aggressive in 2004 in trying to sell itself as a company that […]

Despite being such a nascent technology, serial-attached SCSI , or SAS, has been bubbling with development among storage vendors anxious to tap into next-generation storage market in the past year. Now it has earned the blessing of the

Storage systems for network access got a little hotter with networked storage provider Adaptec’s agreement to purchase storage virtualization software maker Elipsan. Adaptec said Elipsan’s storage virtualization technology would help boost the scalability and performance of its RAID subsystems, which are multiple drives that work in tandem to provide better fault tolerance and performance. The […]

Emboldened by demand for a stronger network-attached storage gateway, IBM on Tuesday introduced a new storage product to zip files across IT networks. NAS devices are file servers and IBM competes with vendors such as EMC, Network Appliance and HP in this space. Although the proliferation of more comprehensive storage area network (SAN) products has […]

Microsoft Tuesday took the wraps off of its highly anticipated SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services, a suite for providing enterprises with graphics and reports about how the company, its products and employees are performing. The product is expected to compete with a litany of other software packages in the business intelligence (BI) arena, including Cognos’ […]

EMC on Monday shored up its management software for databases with DatabaseXtender, a software suite to monitor database use, and a joint solution with Oracle to preserve inactive database records. The Hopkinton, Mass., storage vendor also used Oracle’s AppsWorld show in San Diego to unveil services to educate customers about information lifecycle management (ILM) and […]