Clint Boulton

Fresh off a multi-billion-dollar reselling and co-branding pact with storage giant EMC Corp., Dell Computer Corp. Monday unveiled three new network-attached storage (NAS) servers. Released under the company’s PowerVault line are the 755N, 750N and 715N storage servers, all of which are based on Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 2000 Advanced Server operating system. And Dell recognizes […]

Chicago’s divine inc. continued its torrid pace of acquisitions Friday when it bid to acquire publicly-held Dallas-based Data Return Corp., a provider of managed hosting services for companies with Microsoft Corp.-based technology applications. The deal on the table is a stock-for-stock agreement in which divine offered to snap up all outstanding Data Return common stock […]

With the notion that Web services are a relatively new blip on the radars of tech firms, it makes sense for rivals to work together in the early going to hash out standards. IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. apparently agree as the two revealed Thursday that they have developed an XML-based Web services specification, called […]

As previously reported, IBM Corp. has unveiled new services for “Project eLiza,” the company’s name for self-managing properties in its servers. Formally called e-business Management Services, the multi-billion-dollar strategy detailed Wednesday marks the first time eLiza will aim to directly tailor business process objectives to support information resources. But why cultivate something like eLiza? Surely […]

It’s no secret that semiconductor sales, like so many IT hardware sectors, have taken a beating. One only need to look at the price war between Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), in which the chipmakers have cut prices for certain chips as much as 29 percent, to realize how severe the situation […]

Information facilitator LexisNexis moved to bolster its offerings Wednesday when it agreed to acquire Bellevue, Wash.’s CourtLink Corp., which lets users file court documents via the Internet. Fiscal terms of the purchase were not made public and the deal is subject to CourtLink shareholders. What would seem to make this a happy marriage is that, […]

Peer-to-peer network purveyor Groove Networks said its family of enterprise servers — designed to help businesses integrate information from existing Web-based systems into the Groove decentralized collaboration environment — are in beta testing. The Beverley, Mass., firm, which recently closed a $51 million investment round from Microsoft, also announced an upgrade to its P2P software. […]

While IBM Corp. had nothing to new to offer at Storage Networking World Fall 2001 last week, it made up for it Tuesday with the release of a number of storage products targeted for mid-market customers, including a new storage server that provides 2 Gbps Fibre Channel connectivity. Also added to Big Blue’s storage menu […]

Communications software maker Openwave Systems Inc. Monday revealed a first-quarter loss of $170.5 million, or 99 cents a share, and announced unspecified restructuring to the tune of a $35 to $40 million charge for the December 2001 quarter. Minus merger and acquisition-related charges, the Redwood City, Calif. firm said it lost $5.9 million or 3 […]

In this day and age of multiple choices and avenues with which to pursue them, businesses are acknowledging the fact that customers can become frustrated by using phone keypads to conduct transactions. Because of this, online trust service provider VeriSign Inc. said Monday that it has begun accepting applications from businesses that want to register […]

Since April, IBM’s project of self-maintaining machines has gotten a bit lost with all of the pomp swirling around Big Blue’s midrange servers, and in the last month, the powerful Regatta. But on Halloween, IBM Corp. plans to fill in what to this point has been a rough sketch of “Project eLiza”, an initiative to […]

Electronic Data Systems (EDS), a global service provider with a propensity for picking up information technology contracts with large companies or organizations, this week scored another such deal with General Motors (GM) when it agreed to offer manage the car manufacturing giant’s desktops for the next three years. Financial terms were not made public for […]