Clint Boulton

EMC stepped up its partnership with Microsoft Monday and released a new network-attached storage appliance that is compatible with Windows. The development, dubbed a “breakthrough” by at least one industry analyst, means EMC and Microsoft customers will be able to use one console to manage all their storage, rather than having to launch separate tools […]

Microsoft reaffirmed its interest in taking its software to motor vehicles Monday with the launch of the fifth version of its platform for automotive suppliers and manufacturers, which would make communication hands-free in the car. Based on the Redmond, Wash. concern’s embedded systems Windows CE .NET 4.2, Windows Automotive 4.2 will pipe real-time weather alerts, […]

Ask Web-savvy people what a portal is and they’ll typically tell you it’s a place where users access information through a unified dashboard, as opposed to multiple sites. Ask the same people for an example, and typically, they’ll tell you Yahoo!. They’d be right on both counts. But major software vendors are also happy to […]

Sun Microsystems and IBM are once again going head-to-head in their efforts to lure new customers. Both companies have announced plans to reshape their high-performance computing offerings through the formation of new business units. Sun earlier this month announced the creation of its High Performance and Technical Computing (HPTC) unit and IBM this week unveiled […]

Amazon.com is once again feeling the lash of the privacy whip as 11 groups Tuesday asked the Federal Trade Commission to look into the Seattle-based e-commerce giant because they say the firm lets children post personal information on its Web site, a violation of a federal law. This claim, spearheaded by the Electronic Privacy Information […]

webMethods Wednesday said it has reached the penultimate step in its strategy to integrate the JBoss open-source application server with its integration platform. The Fairfax, Va., firm launched its JBoss integration customer preview program, meaning webMethods will now roll out the new capability to a select group of customers. Once the preview is completed, the […]

Representatives of research firm Summit Strategies Tuesday outlined the virtualization aspect of on-demand computing, and weighed the pros and cons of HP’s, IBM’s and Sun Microsystems’ respective strategies for that ideology. The analysts took time to discuss how virtualized computing — the practice of automating consolidation and pooling of IT resources in a way that […]

Microsoft Business Solutions Tuesday said the latest version of its software to serve supply chain management, e-commerce and customer relationship management companies is ready for the public. The Fargo, N.D. business unit of the Redmond, Wash. software concern released an improved Business Solutions-Great Plains 7.5, which organizations use to manage chores such as accounting, payroll […]

The migration to serial-attached storage products — which use fewer cables than their parallel brethren — continued Monday when Adaptec spearheaded an initiative with partners to deliver the industry’s first serial-attached SCSI disk drives. Milpitas, Calif.’s Adaptec will work with Fujitsu, Hitachi, Maxtor and Seagate to co-market the disk drives to the enterprise. Financial terms […]

Kontiki Monday said it has developed new grid delivery technology software for the enterprise and made its software more compatible with desktop products from Microsoft, including the about-to-be-released Windows Server 2003. Grid computing is the practice of wielding the power of several computers to solve a particular problem at the same time for maximum effectiveness. […]

Amazon.com Thursday agreed to provide the technology to handle online sales for the sports merchandise stores on NBA.com and WNBA.com. Under the multi-year agreement with the National Basketball Association (NBA) and Foot Locker, shoppers will be able to purchase NBA and WNBA merchandise such as jerseys and T-shirts through Amazon.com’s Apparel & Accessories store as […]

Easing fears about whether royalties will be applied to the already popular Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) specification, its creators have submitted it to the e-business interoperability group OASIS. But the decision to submit it to OASIS rather than the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), has some wondering whether competition is rising up to engulf […]