Clint Boulton

The excitement over the burgeoning information lifecycle management (ILM) trend in the storage industry is having a trickle down affect for smaller companies. Campbell, Calif.’s OuterBay Monday teamed with Hopkinton, Mass.-based storage giant EMC for a business and technology agreement in which EMC will bundle OuterBay’s Application Data Management (ADM) software suite into the ILM […]

The unexpected growth and popularity of software tools group Eclipse is leading to changes in the way the open-source consortium is organized. Two years after IBM established Eclipse with $40 million in Java-based software, the once loosely-organized group has decided to install a board of directors to govern three councils, including one for architecture, requirements […]

Software maker HyperRoll Monday unveiled the third version of its flagship platform for ramping up the performance of business intelligence applications from companies such as Business Objects and Cognos. Mountain View, Calif.-based HyperRoll competes with Netezza in a small niche of the data aggregation market, where the goal is to help BI applications, which inform […]

Dell and EMC executives offered an update of their partnership for selling storage systems, highlighting research that shows second-quarter revenues for the collaborative effort grew 106 percent year-over-year. Dell Storage General Manager Darren Thomas said his company’s external storage business, which consists of network-attached storage , direct-attached storage and tape, surged 68 percent year-over-year for […]

The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) Monday published its third position paper on the controversial SCO-Linux war, attacking SCO’s legal claims to the open-source operating system. Written by Eben Moglen, general counsel of the Free Software Foundation, “SCO: Without Fear and Without Research” blasts SCO’s legal arguments as containing an “inherent contradiction.” “SCO continues to […]

VERITAS Software and Cisco Systems are teaming up to make storage simpler and more cost effective. The two companies Monday said they have bundled their software and hardware, respectively, on a product they hope will one day become the prime alternative to pricey storage systems from vendors such as IBM, EMC and Hitachi Data Systems […]

Driven by new federal regulations, a new business category called information lifecyle management has taken center stage in the storage industry. ILM is geared for cradle-to-grave management of “unstructured data” such as e-mails, attachments and audio and video clips. Previously, CEOs didn’t want to keep this information. Now, they have no choice. Lawmakers responded to […]

Following its bid to buy archiving specialist Persist Technologies last week, Hewlett Packard moved to extend its information lifecycle management strategy overseas by partnering with systems integrator Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGE&Y). Palo Alto, Calif.’s HP will work with Paris-based CGE&Y to help customers manage critical data from its creation until its disposal, around […]

Amid the growth of Sun Microsystem’s Java 2 Enterprise Edition , new research is calling into question the ability of users to use the platform efficiently because they don’t yet have the proper processes in place to handle the applications built with the language. Wily Technology, a Brisbane, Calif. company that gauges how well Java […]

Electronics business standards group OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) has approved the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) version 1.0 as a official standard, paving the way to assign user accounts and access privileges to phone systems, e-mail accounts and enterprise applications via the Web between different companies. The specification, unveiled by […]

The high-profile power struggle between PeopleSoft and Oracle has become nothing if not a series of legal maneuvers and filings — both in court and with federal regulatory bodies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission. PeopleSoft Tuesday filed a motion with the SEC to extend its customer refund program, which some experts have tabbed […]

Microsoft Wednesday announced that 13 storage hardware makers have prepared their iSCSI products for use with Windows under a program that makes storage devices and systems compatible with the Redmond, Wash. giant’s software. The companies include McData, QLogic, Adaptec, ADIC, ATTO Technology, Cisco, Crossroads, FalconStor, EqualLogic, Intel, Intransa, Lefthand Networks, Network Appliance, SpectraLogic, and storageconnections.net. […]