Clint Boulton

Mercury Interactive said this week that its directors may face civil charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission following the company’s admission that its former managers backdated stock-option grants. Mercury CFO David Murphy said the SEC last month advised Mercury board directors Igal Kohavi, Yair Shamir and Giora Yaron that it is considering filing civil […]

The idea that Ethernet and InfiniBand protocols might be put side by side in a data center seemed like a strange notion at one point. With vendors championing one or the other, it seemed never the two would meet. But then Cisco Systems bought InfiniBand fabric specialist Topspin and the networking giant has intent on […]

Just because we call some businesses small doesn’t mean they don’t rack up a lot of data. Ask Network Appliance , which created a new business unit to sell a lot of storage to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB). The storage systems vendor today celebrated the new division with its first appliance, the StoreVault S500, […]

Vowing to tighten its focus on storage systems, Network Appliance today agreed to sell its NetCache business to Blue Coat Systems for roughly $23.9 million in cash and stock. NetCache, which made $66 million in 2006, representing only 3 percent of NetApp’s revenues, makes Web appliances that businesses run in anything from primary data centers […]

UPDATED: First the Department of Veteran Affairs. Now the Federal Trade Commission. Laptops from government agencies are a hot item. The agency today said two FTC attorneys’ laptops containing the personal information of 110 people were stolen from a locked vehicle last week. The theft was announced one month after a laptop containing the personal […]

Novell said it has ousted CEO Jack Messman and CFO Joseph S. Tibbetts Jr., a significant but unsurprising management shake-up for the struggling software company. The company’s board of directors tabbed President Ronald W. Hovsepian CEO and board member effective immediately. Dana C. Russell, vice president of finance and corporate controller at Novell, will serve […]

IBM  today kicked off a plan to entice more small- and medium-sized business customers to the allure of virtualization technologies. The IBM Virtualization Test Drive is designed to help IBM business partners become more proficient at selling IBM’s Virtualization Engine portfolio, a suite of software tools designed to produce efficiencies in servers. Some of the […]

HP today said it would liquidate its global operations group and spreading it around to its business groups, the latest in a streamlining plan to make the company leaner and meaner. HP expects the move, along with several other reogranizations the company has made in the past year, will result in a lay off 15,300 […]

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) management vendors upgraded their products this week to lure customers to the prospect of distributed computing. The news coincides with Gartner’s Application Integration and Web Services Summit in San Diego this week, where vendors will talk about the way they plan to grab big pieces of the multi-billion-dollar market for software integration. […]

EMC   today bought ProActivity Software Solutions, which makes content management software for business process management (BPM). Financial terms of the buy were not made public. The purchase fits with EMC’s broad strategy for managing information with hardware systems and software tailored to shuttle, secure and save data. ProActivity, of Newton, Mass., writes software that […]

There’s something to be said about looking at past and present events to anticipate the future. At least one startup is banking on it. Coral8 next week plans to emerge from stealth mode with the official launch of its new flagship product, the Coral8 Event Processing Engine, according to a source familiar with the company’s […]

HP today plans to outline three new management software products in its OpenView portfolio in a move to help CIOs run their information technology assets like a business. OpenView DecisionCenter, OpenView AssetCenter and OpenView Application Insight will be top of mind at the HP Software Forum 2006 in Miami, where company executives will unveil the […]