Clint Boulton

In its second significant partnership within a month, movie-on-demand service provider CinemaNow inked a pact with Universal Studios Pay-Per-View for a four-month test of pay-per-view and library titles on-demand delivery. CinemaNow, which faces what many analysts deem to be a tough task in competing with the industry-led Movielink, will offer such titles as the comedy […]

A partnerhsip inked between VeriSign and IBM earlier this year is finally bearing fruit, as the firms Monday announced their first set of jointly-created security Web services and software. Holding forth at the Gartner Symposium IT Expo in Orlando, Fla. this week, IBM and VeriSign said the new services are designed to help companies build […]

Dell Monday unveiled a storage device and two new desktops from its Dimension family, addressing both the enterprise and consumers, respectively. On the corporate side of the fence, Austin, Texas’ Dell rolled out a new network storage system geared for business continuance, the goal of which is to help technology systems to maintain operations through […]

Brocade Communications Systems Monday teamed with IBM to deliver standards-based storage area network management software. In the agreement, for which financial details were not made public, the newly announced IBM Tivoli Storage Area Network Manager will use the Brocade Fabric Access API 2.0 for discovery of active zone configurations in a Brocade fabric to show […]

Amid a number of similar warnings about decreased sales, EMC Corp. late Thursday said it would have to cut 7 percent of its workforce, or about 1,350 employees, as the firm now estimates that it will not reach profitability for the second half of the year. The Hopkinton, Mass. storage giant expects total revenue to […]

In what it sees as clamping the competitive vise on rivals Dell and HP, Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM said Thursday it is working with Intel and Microsoft to create more powerful Intel Xeon processor MP- and Windows-based software for the enterprise. An IBM spokesperson said the three firms are working with systems integrators and software vendors […]

Can the already cramped wireless device market get any more crowded? Yes it can, and it did this week when wireless software maker start-up Danger, along with its handheld maker partner T-Mobile USA unveiled a personal digital assistant that lets customers surf the Web, send and receive e-mail, chat using AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), play […]

NEW YORK – Staging a full assault on competitors, Network Appliance Tuesday unleashed the company’s new flagship offering, which serves as the concern’s first storage appliance to support Fibre Channel SAN environments. NTAP touted the FAS900 series as the industry’s first unified storage engine capable of handling networked storage in SAN and/or NAS mode. Hawking […]

In a bid to fight the powerful Research in Motion, Palm Inc.’s operating system unit PalmSource Thursday teamed with the embattled start-up Good Technology to offer customers the Goodlink wireless corporate e-mail system with the Palm operating system. The idea is for Sunnyvale, Calif.’s Palm to provide corporate customers with an end-to-end system for synchronizing […]

A week after Palo Alto, Calif.’s Sun Microsystems poached storage software maker Pirus Networks from its home state, Hopkinton, Mass.’s EMC countered by snapping up Prisa Networks for $20 million in cash. San Diego’s Prisa makes storage area network (SAN) management optimized for managing low-end to midrange SAN environments, a market segment EMC said it […]

IBM Tuesday continued to pepper the hardware landscape with server blade announcements, as the Armonk, N.Y. firm unveiled its thinnest server to date and named AOL Time Warner as its one of its new major customers. Big Blue is positioning the blade as one of the most powerful in a sector populated by products from […]

Embattled software maker Peregrine Systems said Sunday that it has filed for Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The move ostensibly led Peregrine to sell its Remedy business to Houston rival BMC Software for $350 million to stay afloat. The U.S. Department of Justice put the finishing touches on Peregrine’s day by opening an […]