Clint Boulton

Vendors spent nearly $12.2 billion last quarter to buy technology companies in the third quarter as storage, business intelligence and grid computing sectors rocked with action, according to the latest research from The 451 Group. Going forward, the research firm expects grid computing to lead the next fresh wave of M&As. The Q3 figure was […]

For the second time in as many months, Sun Microsystems has joined forces with an IT services company in an agreement to provide utility computing services for customers seeking to pay for computing performance as they need it. SchlumbergerSema, the IT division of Schlumberger Limited, will purchase Sun’s utility computing architecture, based on the vendor’s […]

EMC said it has completed development on new products for the networked-attached storage (NAS) market, adding mid-tier boxes and a few other enhancements to its NAS family. The Hopkinton, Mass. storage systems vendor announced the upgrades Wednesday, less than a week after rival Network Appliance announced similar products to fill out lower ends of their […]

IBM Tuesday moved to bolster its utility computing offerings with new on-demand services that let customers draw from its three other server lines. Big Blue began offering virtual server capacity on its zSeries mainframes in July 2002, but to add breadth to its on-demand strategy the Armonk, N.Y.-based systems vendor has extended that capability to […]

IBM has acquired the application porting services business from Sector7, a privately held software applications services company that helps customers pare IT costs by migrating software applications to operate on IBM platforms using the Linux and AIX operating systems. Financial terms were not disclosed. But IBM has acquired a majority of Sector7’s assets and intellectual […]

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. Tuesday expanded its deal with business intelligence (BI) applications maker Brio Software for the car manufacturer division to use its reporting and analysis tools for employees and dealers across the United States, the Santa Clara, Calif., company said. Although terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, Brio characterized the agreement as a […]

Actional said Monday that it has upgraded its Web services management platform across the board, adding XML firewall capabilities for SOAPstation, the company’s Web services broker, and adding self-healing server automation and a browser-based dashboard. users. The Mountain View, Calif.-based Actional makes Web services management products to help systems administrators guide their software-as-a-service processes to […]

Intel has agreed to work with SAS Institute to bundle business intelligence software with wireless computing capabilities on mobile machines such as laptops. Specifically, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker will use SAS’ integrated suite of analytic applications to run on Intel-based mobile PCs and servers via the Intel Itanium 2 processor and Intel Centrino Mobile […]

AppForge, which makes wireless software and offers services, has released Mobile Visual Basic 4.0, a mobile and wireless development tool that supports Palm’s operating system 5 and integrates into Microsoft’s Visual Studio environment and the Nokia Series 60 devices, whose licensees make up more than 60 percent of the mobile handset market. MobileVB 4.0, which […]

Every sector in the technology industry has its own lexicon of catch phrases, and storage is no different. A couple of years ago it was Bluefin for storage management specifications and iSCSI for IP-based data storage linking. Now it’s ATA (advanced technology attachment) and information lifecycle management, or ILM. But while the first three are […]

Philips’ semiconductor division has chosen to use an HP Utility Data Center (UDC) as it looks to pare information technology (IT) costs with technology that adapts to changing business needs on the fly. Financial terms were not disclosed. But Nick van der Zweep, director of Utility Computing for HP, said Philips is the first customer […]

Dell and rivals HP , GTSI and Lockheed Martin have scored a bid to provide hardware, software and services for the U.S. Army to the tune of $500 million, the latest in a series of large contract wins for systems vendors. Dell spokesperson Michelle Mosmeyer said the seven-year contract is comprised of a 36-month base […]