Clint Boulton

With more than 30 million households already surfing at high-speed — and more than 130 million expected by the end of 2007 — Internet users are viewing high-quality streaming video content and many will be willing to pay for it, according to research firm In-Stat/MDR. Forecasts from the research firm put the market for consumer […]

Symantec Tuesday agreed to acquire PowerQuest for $150 million in cash to add provisioning, storage management, and disaster recovery technologies to complement its Ghost product in the hopes of offering a full range of data lifecycle management to enterprise customers. Symantec Ghost makes reliable backups of PC drives, including applications and critical data. But Cupertino, […]

Claiming a victory over rival system vendors HP , Dell and Gateway , IBM Monday said it has secured a contract with Ohio State University (OSU) to provide $75 million worth of servers, desktops and laptops to the institution over a three-year period. The exclusive contract makes Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM the primary vendor to provide […]

Network Appliance Tuesday will move to bolster its portfolio with a handful of new storage products, including a low-end series of file servers to fill a gap in its product line and fresh software to dovetail with federal compliance regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). The Sunnyvale, Calif. vendor’s […]

Continuing the trend of making management software for small- and medium-sized businesses, storage systems provider EMC Monday unveiled new software tailored to help customers in the mid-tier storage market to automate their storage networks. EMC VisualSRM and EMC VisualSAN improve capacity utilization in addition to making management tasks hands-free by automating them with the software, […]

IBM has teamed up with high-performance auto manufacturer BMW Group to work on loading cars with software as the industry gradually but surely shifts toward telematics . The agreement is part of BMW’s new Automotive Software Foundry (ASF), a business play with IBM joining as the main customer. The components cover the entire software lifecycles […]

E-business standards consortium OASIS Monday will ratify the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 1.1 as a standard, a source familiar with the group’s plans confirmed. SAML 1.1 represents an upgrade over SAML 1.0, which was passed by OASIS in November 2002 to define a common method for sharing authorization information between different security systems. The […]

Similar types of business intelligence (BI) software purchased from different vendors can have surprisingly different levels of total-cost-of-ownership (TCO), found Ventana Research after completing a six-month examination of five vendors in the space. BI software gauges such metrics as the purchasing patterns of those involved in a business process. Many research firms have been taking […]

A new buffer overflow flaw has been detected in popular e-mail transfer application Sendmail that could allow an attacker to run any code he or she chooses, according to CERT/CC. The security advisory group said the vulnerability affects systems running open-source Sendmail versions before 8.12.10, including both UNIX and Linux systems, as well as such […]

With the industry increasingly turning its attention to utility computing, Veritas Software Wednesday said it has agreed to bundle its OpForce brand of provisioning software with new server blade hardware from chipmaker Intel. Utility computing — where customers pay for the computing power they use and nothing more — has become the rallying cry of […]

HP made a strategy that has been gaining momentum in the storage industry a formal program Wednesday with the announcement of its Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) initiative for guiding data from cradle to grave. Sensing that ILM has increasingly become a buzzword since federal regulations have become more stringent, HP has become the first major […]

In a sign that service providers have become more aware of their customers’ needs to secure, backup and restore their assets in the event of business-altering disasters, Verizon Tuesday said it has agreed to resell EMC’s automated storage systems with its own networking services. The new package marks Verizon’s entry into the business continuity realm, […]