Clint Boulton

Rallying around its “on-demand computing” cry, IBM Tuesday said it was retooling its integration software pricing scheme to make it more attractive to mid-sized companies. The Armonk, N.Y. firm’s WebSphere infrastructure software, or middleware, is designed to help firms integrate different silos or stacks of data, including customer relationship management (CRM) or supply chain management […]

Developing tools for the Java language is no piece of cake, as developers and third-parties are required to write separate add-ins for their tools to work with each Java tool vendors’ Integrated Development Environment. The presence of so many players writing programs using their own products doesn’t make this task any easier and it gets […]

Swooping in to undercut the likes of Sun Microsystems and HP, IBM Monday unveiled a new eight-way Unix server — the eServer pSeries 650 — equipped with the Armonk, N.Y. company’s latest 64-bit POWER4+ processor. With the release, Big Blue is essentially continuing its strategy of taking performance and autonomic computing capabilities from its high-end […]

Laying claim to an important step along the path to creating mightier integrated circuits (ICs), IBM Monday said it has crafted a new technique for building three-dimensional ICs that will help increase chip performance, functionality and density. Researchers at IBM’s Research Division lab in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. explained that current microprocessors are two-dimensional, existing in […]

Amid a slew of improvements to its bread-and-butter database and application server software suites, Oracle next week plans to launch the second version of its collaboration software, as well as provide a preview of its forthcoming enterprise management framework, codenamed Project Mozart. A confident oracle Rene Bonvanie, vice president of Oracle9i product marketing, told internetnews.com […]

As the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) churns along in its quest to ratify the SOAP 1.2 specification, a potential stumbling block has reared its head in the last week: two firms in the W3C XML Protocol Working Group said they may have patents covering some of the intellectual property covered in the proposed specification. […]

Looking to elevate its prowess in the storage resource management sector, VERITAS Software Thursday purchased NTP Software’s Storage Reporter, a product that gives IT managers a clear view of their storage usage. Financial details were not made public, but Mountain View, Calif.’s VERITAS believes Storage Reporter will complement its own storage resource management (SRM) offering, […]

In yet another demonstration that the data storage sector is an arms race in which major factions are snapping up startups to bolster their offerings, Brocade Communications Systems late Tuesday snapped up rival Rhapsody Networks for $175 million in stock. Privately-held, Fremont, Calif.-based Rhapsody Networks and San Jose, Calif.’s Brocade are makers of storage fabric […]

Tweaking its solid partnership with multimedia encoder maker Envivio, Seattle’s RealNetworks Tuesday said the two companies will now work together to develop a mobile media encoder for the wireless sector. RealNetworks has been busy molding its software to run on cell phones and personal digital assistants in the past year or two, and Tuesday’s news […]

Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM Monday followed up some software refreshing from a month ago with the release of new xSeries servers based on the Intel Xeon Processor MP, or Gallatin. Primed for large business and enterprise data workloads, the servers include new models of the four-way IBM eServer x255 rack and tower system; new four-way models […]

IBM Monday agreed to acquire privately-held Tarian Software for an undisclosed amount. Ottawa, Canada’s Tarian makes software that manages electronic records, which is important for organizations that need to apply record retention and disposal policies to stored information. Government, insurance and financial fields are a few of the sectors where e-records management is in high […]

With security at a premium — especially for Web services — e-business standards group OASIS moved to bolster its ability to create safer specifications Monday when it added the PKI Forum as its newest member section. Vital for ensuring secure transactions on the Internet, PKI, short for public key infrastructure, is a system of digital […]