Clint Boulton

Dell , which recently moved its headquarters from Austin back to Round Rock, Texas, Monday debuted new services to make it easier for small businesses to purchase and get computer networks up and running. The new suite, the first of a tiered service strategy, includes services in network design, installation and training for businesses who […]

Though the data storage sector on the whole has often been praised as one of the few bright spots for its hardiness in a challenging economic environment, market research firm IDC said it doesn’t expect an “imminent” recovery for the disk storage systems factory segment, whose sales were down this past quarter. The disk storage […]

IBM Friday moved to pick up its largest software acquisition since it nabbed Lotus in 1995 when it agreed to buy Cupertino, Calif.’s Rational Software for $2.1 billion in cash. Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM believes Rational, which offers software, practices and services for developing business applications and building software products and systems, will further enable it […]

Microsoft late Wednesday introduced two new security patches which seal moderate flaws in versions 5.5. and 6.0 of its Internet Explorer browser and Outlook 2002. The IE flaw exists in the software’s cross-domain security model because the security checks that IE carries out when particular object caching techniques are used in Web pages are incomplete. […]

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Wednesday teamed with Network Appliance to market and sell enterprise network-attached storage (NAS) software. Financial terms of the agreement were not made public but what is known is that Santa Clara, Calif.-based HDS will fit Sunnyvale, Calif.-based NetApp’s enterprise NAS gateway products for its Hitachi Freedom Storage environments, which will be […]

IBM Wednesday again staged a competitive assault on HP when it launched a new pSeries server with a twist — it comes, solely, with the Linux operating system. The strategy behind the new eServer p630 is a departure from Big Blue’s past, in which the systems vendor shipped pricier pSeries systems with both AIX, IBM’s […]

Storage systems concern Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), moved to advance its TrueNorth strategy for open, interoperable storage systems Tuesday with the announcement of new storage hardware, software and a partner program to help it better deliver upon the wide-ranging vision of TrueNorth. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based division of giant Hitachi , locked in a competitive […]

Electronic stock broker Instinet Group Tuesday ignited a cost reduction plan to pare operating costs by $100 million that includes the layoff of 300 employees. Part of an ongoing effort to produce a leaner cost structure, New York-based Instinet said it plans to record charges of $58 million in the fourth quarter of 2002 and […]

The OASIS interoperability group Monday has finally ratified the ebXML Collaboration Protocol Profile and Agreement (CPPA) v2.0 as an OASIS Open Standard, making the protocol law in the consortium. ebXML CPPA defines business partners’ technical rights and documents agreements between partners to allow businesses to engage in safe electronic business-to-business transactions. Such collaboration, which ranges […]

HP Monday introduced the ProLiant DL320 and DL360 servers designed specifically for data centers. To power these dense environments, the firm included what it calls “lights-out” technology in its overarching Adaptive Infrastructure initiative to help customers grasp greater control of the operations of their machines. The new servers provide reduced reactive support time, fault resilient […]

IBM drove its endeavor to bundle its autonomic and on-demand computing forays across its many divisions forward Monday when it unveiled infrastructure software that makes advanced computing away from the PC possible. The announcement is primarily about middleware, as IBM is concentrating on delivering new interfaces, as well as the ability to seamlessly link these […]

E*TRADE Group attempted to get some shopping done Tuesday when it moved to scoop up consumer finance business Ganis Credit Corporation, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG, for $101 million. The buy, should it reach fruition, would help E*TRADE Bank grow out its consumer lending business without compromising its credit quality. Ganis features a […]