Clint Boulton

Competition in high-tech can take some pretty funny twists and turns. When IBM first dropped hints of its plans to drop a “Storage Tank” onto the industry a couple of years ago, analysts agreed at the time that it would be a strong assault on the competition like HP , EMC and Hitachi Data Systems. […]

Eyeing the corporate segment of the market for management software, Microsoft Wednesday released its Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 to manufacturing. Formerly known as Topaz, SMS 2003 is the first piece in what the Redmond, Wash., software giant promises will be a broad, deep portfolio of software that helps corporations manage information from their data […]

Cisco and IBM refreshed their broad infrastructure partnership Wednesday, introducing a virtualization product geared to help customers better corral data. Much-ballyhooed but not as widely implemented as high-tech analysts would like, virtualization aims to improve the use of storage resources by pooling physical storage from multiple network storage devices into what appears to be a […]

EMC officially sealed the deal on its bid to buy information lifecycle management (ILM) software specialist Legato Systems for $1.3 billion, or roughly 106 million shares of EMC stock, based on the closing price for both companies’ stocks on July 8. The closing paves the way for the Hopkinton, Mass.-based provider of storage hardware and […]

Veritas Software brought its “Project Shadow” into the light Tuesday when it unveiled a new backup and recovery option to provide always-on data protection for corporate PCs such as desktops and laptops. The Mountain View, Calif. maker of storage management software, in the midst of a company-wide evolution toward becoming a utility computing provider, is […]

Oracle took the time at its show in San Francisco to unveil the highly-touted “10g” grid computing approach to storing and serving files. Tuesday the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software maker upped the ante on that strategy, announcing new database software perks and packages at its Oracle World Paris 2003 event, along with training and deployment […]

Business Process Management (BPM) — the ability to define and execute business functions independent of applications or infrastructure — may sound like a stuffy concept, but a few small companies are steadfastly clinging to it for success in a time when controlling company workflow is seen as a way of paring total-cost-of-ownership. Intalio and Oak […]

IBM has joined forces with Adobe Systems Monday in a partnership to create software and services that will help customers digitize document creation and dissemination. The agreement goes beyond a previous technology alliance between the two companies, in which the two teamed up on digital encryption, adding joint sales and marketing of document services to […]

Microsoft expanded its financial software focus under the aegis of the business processes consortium RosettaNet by agreeing to participate in the RosettaNet Payment Milestone Program and issuing a supporting software toolkit geared to automate payments. The Redmond, Wash. software giant issued the news at the SIBOS 2003 Conference in Singapore. With the program, Microsoft launched […]

EMC’s move to acquire Legato in July hardly took the storage industry by surprise: The Hopkinton, Mass.-based storage systems provider had telegraphed its interest in archiving software for months before the purchase, and analysts were also talking up the possibility. But EMC’s bid to purchase Documentum earlier this week raised more than a few eyebrows, […]

IBM Thursday moved to jazz up its Unix server line just a day after it revealed that its hardware sales for the third quarter were sluggish. IBM hopes the improvements in its Unix server line will help bump up hardware sales, which have been sluggish industry-wide. The Armonk, N.Y.-based systems vendor’s hardware division revealed some […]

In another sign that 2003 is shaping up to be a stronger year for the storage industry than 2002, EMC Thursday reported third quarter revenues of $1.51 billion, some 20 percent greater than revenues reported for the same period last year. Net income for the third quarter was $159 million or 7 cents per diluted […]