Clint Boulton

Application server software platforms (ASSP) may be a highly commoditized business, but IBM, Oracle and BEA Systems can still turn a quick buck in the space, thanks to accelerating adoption of virtualization and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Worldwide sales for application server software grew nearly 6 percent in 2005 to $4.5 billion, according to new research […]

Security software maker Websense  agreed to buy partner PortAuthority Technologies for approximately $90 million in cash to stake its claim in the emerging market for preventing information leaks. PortAuthority is one of a handful of startups making information-leak prevention software, which prevents perpetrators from taking information from within the confines of the company. The company […]

Verizon Wireless is a top wireless phone service provider, but it can’t serve its roughly 57 million customers without some serious technological help. Verizon agreed to pay Nortel  $2 billion over the next five years for communications networking infrastructure and services that will help it build out its V CAST video and music services and […]

High-performance computing software startup PeakStream introduced its platform for helping developers program multi-core chips, graphics processor units (GPUs) and Cell processors to boost application performance. Improving application performance is in huge demand in markets such as financial services, national defense, pharmaceutical and academic research, where calculations often need to be blazing fast to solve complex […]

Internetnews.com wades through the top stories and issues that rocked the industry in 2006 in this week-long series. At first, it looked like more of the same dysfunction spilling out of Hewlett-Packard’s board of directors after one member resigned in a tiff over another’s actions. Could this just be more fallout after the board’s bruising […]

When people refer to the “Big Four” in computer management software, they’re typically talking about IBM , HP , CA  and BMC . But there’s one company that refuses to be ignored. Altiris  last month threw its iron further onto the mainstream fire by pledging a service-oriented approach to desktop management software. Basically, the company […]

UPDATED: Dell’s  accounting woes continued this week as the company said it would again delay filing third quarter earnings results due to the ongoing investigations into its finances. In conjunction with the delay, the computer maker today also acknowledged that it received a notice of possible delisting from the Nasdaq stock market for failure to […]

Packeteer , looking to be the leader in the burgeoning market for boosting the performance of applications on wide-area networks (WAN), rolled out new plug-ins for reading Flash-based video over the Internet. The application classification software modules let Packeteer PacketShaper customers pinpoint and contain Flash-based IP video traffic that can impede network and application performance. […]

HP  agreed to purchase Knightsbridge Solutions Holdings Corp. to flesh out its business intelligence services offerings. Chicago-based Knightsbridge provides services for the business intelligence, data warehousing, data integration and information quality market segments, all key ingredients for well rounded information management portfolios. Knightsbridge, with 700 employees in offices across the U.S. and in London, offers […]

UPDATED: Hewlett-Packard  unveiled its revamped software division today and just in time. The division is practically bursting at the seams after more than doubling in size since HP’s 4.5 billion purchase of Mercury Interactive. The systems vendor unveiled the software group, which includes HP’s OpenView management and Mercury’s application management and delivery and IT governance […]

Storage software continued to blossom in the third quarter of 2006, racking up $2.5 billion in revenues, or 10.7 percent greater than the $2.1 billion the market tallied in Q3 2005, IDC said today. While the positioning of the top handful of storage vendors remained largely unchanged, IBM  and Network Appliance  grew sales a combined […]

Cassatt Corp., a specialist in the growing market for triggering tasks on virtual and physical servers in corporate datacenters, has added more pieces to its flagship Collage software suite. Collage automatically allocates and controls application server instances and virtual and physical machines, removing some of the manual operations associated with hardware, freeing up administrators to […]