Clint Boulton

Tape storage these days gets a bad rap for unreliability and manageability even though many storage experts will tell you it isn’t going away because it complements disk storage. But if companies keep lowering the cost of disk storage, who knows what fate will befall tape? HP  threw another question mark behind tape storage today, […]

Emboldened by mass adoption for its BizTalk Server 2006 middleware by Fortune 500 businesses, Microsoft  said it has formed the Business Process Alliance (BPA) to make it easier for smaller businesses to employ business process management (BPM) software. BPA is a group of 10 companies whose goal is to build BPM packages for smaller companies […]

As one of the leading vendors of software for anything from high level to fine-grained data management, Oracle is adding information lifecycle management (ILM) tools to its mix. The software giant today began offering Oracle ILM Assistant, a free tool to help customers manage data from the time it is created in a database or […]

RSA Conference 2007 is history, but the show provided a lot of security food for thought. For example, the pervasive theme was that IT security will soon become so tightly integrated into the IT infrastructure that the standalone security market will dwindle down to innovative startups. So we can expect a lot of consolidation in […]

Blue Coat Systems is boosting its the ability to deliver live streaming video and video-on-demand content across the wide-area networks (WAN), an offering one analyst said could draw strong interest from companies using video to train or keep employees up to speed. Blue Coat , which began life as a content delivery provider called CacheFlow, […]

Veritas Software will pay $30 million to investors harmed by its fraudulent earnings management scheme as stipulated in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The settlement also closes charges that Veritas, which Symantec   acquired in 2005, committed securities fraud in improper round-trip transactions with AOL and two other companies, as well […]

Taking a step to boost its application network services, Cisco Systems  today agreed to purchase Reactivity, Inc., for $135 million in cash and assumed options. Reactivity makes appliances that speed the way XML is processed on a network, a valuable tool at a time when an increasing amount of Web services , such as RSS […]

Reporter’s Notebook: The more I have time to reflect on this year’s RSA conference, the more I come to think of it as a big meat market. Sure, the bigger companies are showing up to tout their wares, but there was also a whole lot of checking out of smaller vendors going on. This practice, […]

SAP  filled a gap in its analytic applications suite by buying Pilot Software, a privately-held company specializing in strategy management software. Calling the deal a “tuck-in” acquisition, SAP said in a statement Pilot’s assets will boost its ability to provide C-level executives with tools for managing employee and business process performance across an enterprise. Pilot’s […]

Call it Web application security scanning made simple. Watchfire has put the finishing touches on AppScan Enterprise 5, a new version of the company’s software platform fitted with a point-and-shoot testing tool and training utilities to facilitate quality assurance. WatchFire CTO Michael Weider said the Waltham, Mass., vendor developed the latest AppScan edition to stomp […]

EMC and Dell  are introducing the CX3-10 UltraScale FC/iSCSI system today, a storage area network (SAN)  array that marks a new entry point with EMC’s Clariion machines for the medium-sized customer. Designed to sock away data in businesses with anywhere from 250 to 2,500 employees, the CX3-10 is geared to handle the glut of data […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Computer security vendors come in many flavors. Some, like Symantec , offer several security products to thwart viruses and malicious intruders. Others, like Ping Identity, specialize in locking up customers’ identities to facilitate federated computer communications between users in a secure network. Bharosa (“trust” in Hindi) is a startup that wants to […]