Clint Boulton

BEA Systems  is offering a new search tool to help employees find information in their corporate portals, a valuable proposition at a time when content and user volumes are soaring. Search is a valuable tool to help users sift through their data housed on a variety of applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) , where […]

Increasingly, virtualization software is proving to be an invaluable tool in the datacenter to help manage the mechanical sprawl of hardware and cut costs. But what is managing the influx of virtualization software in datacenters? IBM  believes it has the answer in Systems Director, a suite of software that manages physical and virtual servers and […]

EMC  continued its rally around data protection software, agreeing to acquire privately held Avamar Technologies for $165 million in cash. Avamar, a privately held company based in Irvine, Calif., makes data-protection software called Axion, which uses a special data de-duplication technology to back up data only once across a company’s global offices. The software identifies […]

IBM has upgraded and rechristened a key piece of collaboration software from its Lotus unit, enabling it to facilitate Web 2.0 technologies such as enterprise mashups, something that IBM says Microsoft cannot yet do. Formerly known as WebSphere Everyplace Deployment, Lotus Expeditor is a development platform that lets IT managers run corporate applications such Lotus […]

MySpace is taking measures to beat back the looming specter of litigation swirling over the downloading of copyrighted material. The social networking powerhouse and Fox Interactive Media unit said it has licensed security technology from GraceNote that will help it block unauthorized copyrighted music audio recordings from being posted on the MySpace.com Web site. This […]

IBM  may lead the market for blade servers by a long shot. But HP  has beaten Big Blue to market with its first storage blade. HP said at Storage Networking World in Orlando, Fla., today that it has created a dedicated storage blade server to let customers tack on more storage simply by popping thin […]

The paucity of security technology on current computers has frightened people in the wake of highly publicized thefts, such as the VA laptop pilfering earlier this year. Seagate  is hoping to change that at Storage Networking World in Orlando, Fla., this week. The hard disk drive (HDD) maker today unveiled DriveTrust, a new package of […]

EMC  introduced new software to help businesses recover and protect data in the case of a network outage, software failures and human errors. This practice, recovery management, is a key part of hording files from the time they are created until their disposal. EMC rivals IBM , HP and others also build portfolios around recovering […]

Bill Hewitt is busy these days. As the CEO of data management startup Kalido, he’s on a circuit tour that took him to Florida for the Gartner Symposium ITxpo show earlier this month. Two weeks later, he keynoted a breakfast discussion about enterprise information management for the Kalido User Group Conference. Kalido has come out […]

Cisco Systems  today moved to improve its Unified Communications system by buying software maker Orative Corp. for $31 million in cash. Orative, of San Jose, Calif., makes Enterprise Software, an application that will allow Cisco to leverage its communications and IT suite via smartphones and cell phones. Representing a new trend in blending communications products […]

The slew of security software and services companies being purchased continued today, with telecommunications provider BT  snapping up Counterpane Internet Security for an undisclosed sum. Counterpane, founded by current CTO Bruce Schneier, provides managed networked security services for companies in retail, financial services and other markets to protect their corporate data from prying eyes. Many […]

UPDATED: SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle  wants a cut of the Web 2.0 action. The software maker launched Oracle WebCenter Suite, a new feather in its Fusion Middleware cap that uses Web 2.0 software services to help corporate employees better work together. It also helps developers rise above proprietary systems and legacy applications to build applications […]