Clint Boulton

Anonymizers have built up a strong following due to a flurry of identity-theft cases that have plagued the industry. IBM’s Tivoli group is throwing its hat into the anonymizer ring. Identity Mixer is a piece of software that allows people to hide their personal information on the Web to protect them from ID theft and […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today confirmed the fitness of several XML standards designed to query, transform and access XML data and documents. XQuery 1.0, XSL Transformations (XSLT) 2.0, and XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 passed muster as cornerstones for developing the Web with XML . Connections between applications, databases, operating systems, Web services […]

The ability to predict whether a business decision will triumph or crash and burn can be a huge competitive advantage for manufacturers. That is why Hyperion Solutions , which dashed fiscal estimates for the second quarter, agreed to buy predictive analytics software maker Decisioneering for an undisclosed sum. Decisioneering makes Crystal Ball, a package of […]

The evolution of HP  under CEO Mark Hurd is an ongoing project that includes repositioning core products into the best venues to market and selling them. The systems vendor said today it created a new business unit to propel its management software portfolio for servers and storage machines. The ESS Software unit, which is part […]

Microsoft  is trying to crash IBM’s  Lotusphere party. The Redmond, Wash., company today introduced more free software tools to make it easier for customers of IBM’s Lotus collaboration software to move to and work with Microsoft’s competing SharePoint Services 3.0 suite. Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Notes, role-based templates for SharePoint My Sites and Windows […]

Permabit, which once had lofty hopes of being a standalone storage systems vendor to be reckoned with, has toned down its approach. Finding it tough to crack into the daunting market shares of incumbents EMC , IBM , and HP , Permabit has scaled back, shedding its hardware offering to sell software that houses, guards […]

UPDATED: HP  continued to gain PC market share at Dell’s  expense, growing PC shipments 24 percent from the year-ago quarter. That growth was good enough to help HP finish 2006 in a tie with Dell for the lead in worldwide PC shipments, according to preliminary research from Gartner and IDC. Gartner said in a statement […]

Cognos  this week purchased Celequest, which lets customers access business intelligence (BI) capabilities through a hardware appliance and as software-as-a-service (SaaS), for an undisclosed sum. Celequest makes a plug-and-play appliance called Lava, which gives customers the ability to monitor real-time information feeds about their businesses from transactional systems, such as an online trading platform. Celequest […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Can the newer server virtualization software vendors chip away at VMware’s huge market share? Will VMware respond by slashing prices to keep customers? Those are two of the questions I had after a briefing with Virtual Iron late last year. For those who aren’t familiar with Virtual Iron, the company is a relative […]

Netflix’s  popular online DVD rental service is going digital. The company is looking to expand the freedom it gives subscribers by offering movie and television series rentals as Internet streams through their PCs. Now the company sends DVDs through the mail to subscribers who watch them at their leisure without worrying about late fees. The […]

With system management topping many IT departments’ priority lists these days, HP  today added to its arsenal of server and storage management software. The systems vendor unveiled HP Insight Control Environment, a management software suite targeted at its ProLiant ML pedestal and DL rack-mount servers, which run popular flavors of Windows, Linux and Novell operating […]

Avaya  today said it will purchase U.K. software maker Ubiquity Software Corporation plc for $144 million in a bid to improve the way it supports Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) applications for customers. Ubiquity shareholders must accept the offer within 20 business days of the date that the tender offer document is mailed to them. SIP […]