Clint Boulton

A research firm specializing in covering the data storage industry said there are definite upsides to all of the red tape and heightened concerns behind accounting and other regulations in the market — about $6 billion worth of upsides. The Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Storage Group has conducted a study on the impact compliance has on […]

IBM Monday ratcheted up its database software line with the introduction of a new suite that automates the process of defining, describing and indexing information contained in the database. Called Cube Views (formerly code-named Aurora), the new business intelligence middleware uses algorithms to automate the creation of online analytical processing (OLAP) metadata so that it […]

IBM next week plans to unveil a new, rough and rugged blade server for the telecommunications industry that is also sturdy enough to deal with harshest of environments, such as military operations. The Armonk, N.Y. firm will demonstrate the eServer BladeCenter T at SuperComm 2003 in Atlanta next Tuesday. Blade servers are prized in the […]

EMC , a leader in the market for data storage systems, Thursday said that it would soon move Executive Vice President of New Ventures and CTO Mark Lewis to head the software division to replace an executive who is moving overseas. Beginning July 1, Lewis will serve as Executive Vice President of Open Software Operations […]

Strategy consultancy Cap Gemini Ernst & Young U.S. LLC (CGE&Y) has teamed with infrastucture software maker BEA Systems on a business integration suite for the leasing industry. Terms were not made public, but the deal signals that New York’s CGE&Y is looking to raise its profile as a technology consultant through its alliance with BEA […]

HP plans to announce another expansion to its network-attached storage machine line next week at Microsoft’s Tech-Ed 2003, where it will unveil the StorageWorks NAS 1000 product for remote offices and small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The news reinforces HP’s longstanding partnership with Microsoft . The Palo Alto, Calif. vendor’s NAS device is tailored to run on […]

Open standards consortium OASIS is working to create a language that would help intrusion detection products and firewalls communicate during security attacks. Members of the e-business standards group are calling the effort Web Application Security (WAS). The new WAS technical committee said it has three goals: to create an XML schema (or database structure) to […]

AT&T is set to announce Wednesday new services to help companies recover crucial information in the event of catastrophes or other unexpected problems. The Bedminster, N.J.-based telecommunications giant said it has put the business continuity services in place because of recent regulatory and legislative requirements, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) […]

IBM christened the integration of its Power4+ chip architecture across its Unix server line Wednesday by releasing a new pSeries machine for the low-end of the market. The move to the Power4+ from the Power3 architecture is IBM’s bid to offer enhanced performance at a reasonable price, something rivals HP and Sun Microsystems have been […]

MySQL AB Tuesday said it has inked a technology and cross-licensing partnership with SAP AG’s database project in a play that can potentially catapult MySQL into the enterprise limelight. MySQL will take commercial ownership of SAP’s SAP DB and become a global technology partner of SAP AG. The deal, for which financial terms were not […]

It seems the sphere of influence for Web services technologies is broader than originally thought, as one research firm contends service-oriented architectures (SOAs)– methods used to facilitate communications between different applications and data sources — are underpinning on-demand, or utility computing efforts. Waltham, Mass-based research firm ZapThink said in a recent report that SOAs will […]

A proprietary version of a meta language (ML) in development by Microsoft researchers is causing quite a stir in the developer community. The issue at hand is whether or not Microsoft is trying to co-opt another programming language for its own purposes, which is what some experts perceived the company did when it crafted Visual […]