Clint Boulton

It isn’t often that court happenings weigh heavily enough to influence a company’s stock, but that’s exactly what could happen to SCO Group, an investment firm said Wednesday. Despite all of the negative attention it has received from the brouhaha it touched off by laying a claim to Linux copyrights, the SCO Group was praised […]

Gateway continued its roll-out of storage products Wednesday with the introduction of three new drives geared to provide solid data backup for companies looking to safely store their data. Poway, Calif.’s Gateway has been expanding its focus over the last year, offering more offering more enterprise-oriented computing equipment while simultaneously working hard to infiltrate the […]

With concerns about secure digital identity management looming over software vendors, the Liberty Alliance Project is unveiling a new program Wednesday that will help vendors provide proof that their products and services hew to a common architecture standard for ID management. Businesses face increasing demand to manage multiple products and systems securely as the number […]

It’s official. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday announced XForms 1.0 as an official recommendation, paving the way for a new way to present information via the Web as an improvement over Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Web-based, or electronic forms such as XForms 1.0, combine the ability to separate purpose, presentation and results with […]

EDS and Opsware have teamed together on a data center language standard to reel in utility computing. More than 20 vendors have pledged support for the initiative, which was first reported by internetnews.com. IT services provider EDS and data center automation software maker Opsware launched the Data Center Markup Language (DCML) to reduce the complexity […]

EMC Tuesday added a crucial new piece to its strategy of building a complete information lifecycle management (ILM) portfolio when it agreed to acquire Documentum for $1.7 billion in stock. ILM is the concept of managing stored data from its inception until its disposal, or “cradle to grave.” EMC has been mining this front for […]

Veritas Software continued its utility computing push Monday, extending capabilities from its acquisition of Precise Software Solutions to Microsoft’s SQL Server environments. Since acquiring Precise earlier this year, Mountain View, Calif.’s Veritas has been steadily turning into a provider of utility computing, an increasingly popular type of provisioning services offered to customers in order to […]

Commerce One Monday released the latest version of its composite process management (CPM) platform to forge business processes that combine features, data or context from applications to foster new functionality. Commerce One Conductor gives enterprise customers a flexible platform on which to build various software tools. Its architecture makes many applications viewable through a single […]

IBM Monday dropped the equivalent of a storage bomb against rival systems vendors EMC , HP and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) with the official unveiling of a new storage area network (SAN) file system that lets customers share billions of diverse files. Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM pulled back the curtain on a finished product derived from […]

Microsoft Friday said the development of its new business intelligence software has reached enough progress to take its latest beta test public and that the first iteration of the product should be available in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 by year’s end. Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services is the Redmond, Wash. software giant’s latest foray […]

IBM and Cisco broadened their partnership Friday by agreeing to work together on open “self-healing” software technologies and a corresponding standard to boost the performance of computer infrastructure. Autonomic computing is the expression Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM has used to characterize computing infrastructure that regulates, or manages and “heals” itself in the face of network glitches […]

EDS and Opsware are leading an effort to create a standard language that shuttles information exchange between disparate data center components, in an effort to balance the growing dominance of IBM and HP in the utility computing sector, internetnews.com has learned. The companies have partnered with several other vendors to create Data Center Markup Language […]