Clint Boulton

UPDATED: Warning: This is not your traditional mainframe migration program. HP , Intel Corp.  and Oracle  announced today that they plan to lure customers off of mainframes, a new assault on what has typically been a strong-selling system for IBM . HP CEO Mark Hurd revealed the Application Modernization Initiative (AMI), a variation from the […]

Microsoft  today took its Certificate Lifecycle Manager to beta 2, improving the software’s ability to manage Windows-based smart cards and digital certificates. Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s security technology unit, unveiled the second beta at RSA’s Conference Europe 2006 in Nice, France, today. Fathi also announced the general availability of Windows Defender free […]

EMC  isn’t backing down from its aggressive upgrade strategy. The information systems vendor today unveiled a new high-end Symmetrix system, along with refreshes for its midrange, network-attached storage (NAS) and disk library systems. The Symmetrix DMX-3 model 950 offers twice the performance and three times the capacity of the DMX-2 800 it’s replacing, said Barbara […]

IBM  and Microsoft  don’t typically come to mind when you think of companies that work together on storage products. Dell and EMC? Sure. But IBM and Microsoft? High-tech is full of surprises. IBM and Microsoft said they will sell their customers IBM’s System Storage DS4200 Express pre-loaded with IBM’s System Storage Archive Manager software and […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Usually high-tech conferences are a confluence of keynotes, sideshows and overbearing marketing hyperbole. Last week’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., featured keynotes by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers and Intel CEO Paul Otellini, and a bizarre experiment where a HP disk array was literally shot to demonstrate […]

CORRECTED: EMC  today said third-quarter earnings* dropped a third from a year ago and vowed to cut roughly 4 percent of its workforce to make room for its 21 acquisitions of the last three years. EMC, which has spent the last few years broadening its portfolio to include software for virtualization, security and content management, […]

IBM  today unveiled a new piece of software designed to help customers integrate applications. The all-in-one Information Server that will come with the company’s WebSphere application server and DB2 database. Tom Inman, vice president of information management at IBM, announced the software at the company’s first Information on Demand Global Conference in Anaheim today. Combining […]

Oracle said its management software suite will soon care for the company’s E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, and Siebel business applications. Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g provides service level management, configuration management and remediation for its applications to solve problems that could bring an enterprise resource planning or supply chain management system down. The software suite was […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — A proliferation of smaller, mobile computers and the demand for more valuable services on handheld devices will drive innovation in the chipmaking market, said Intel CEO Paul Otellini at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo here. The prospect of mobile technologies pervaded a question-and-answer session between Gartner analysts Ken Dulaney and Steve Kleynhans […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — There’s a popular notion swirling around the high-tech sector that Microsoft’s dominant position in the industry and software bugs have customers scurrying for the cover of Linux. This may be more of a myth than a notion, Gartner analyst John Enck said during a session comparing the two operating systems […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — PDAs, DVRs and smartphones. Grab all of the fancy gadgets you want. But the key to allowing people to collaborate via video, voice, data and mobility is still the network, which is increasingly becoming virtualized to connect people from any application and any screen. The network will essentially become the […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Now that Microsoft  has acquired a number of security vendors and put them under an umbrella called ForeFront, the temptation is to think the largest software vendor in the world is looking to conquer one of the most crucial parts of the broad software market. With that multi-billion-dollar bank account, […]