Clint Boulton

Symphony Technology Group agreed to purchase Hummingbird Ltd., one of the last large standalone makers of enterprise content management (ECM) software, for $465 million in cash. Tennenbaum Capital Partners said it would invest $135 million to finance the transaction. Symphony, a Palo Alto, Calif., holding company, expects to close the deal in July. The purchase […]

Sacred Heart University became the latest school to fall victim to a computer hack, which exposed the personal information of as many as 135,000 students and alumni. The information included names, addresses, Social Security numbers and 103 credit-card numbers of people affiliated with the school, said Sacred Heart spokeswoman Funda Alp. Information technology staff for […]

Compliance regulations and rising open source software consumption made growth in the worldwide relational database management systems (RDBMS) market surge in 2005, according to research from Gartner and IDC. Gartner said RDBMS software revenue totaled $13.8 billion in 2005, an 8.3 percent spike from 2004 revenue. IDC, which uses different metrics to arrive at its […]

A man who duped customers into believing they could download copyrighted MP3 files without violating the law has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that his claims were false. Cashier Myricks, Jr., operator of mp3downloadcity.com, agreed to pay $15,240 to the 611 customers who signed up to use the service to exchange music, […]

IBM has just finished a major upgrade to its storage virtualization software, a product that can now replicate data at faster speeds and across greater distances. SAN Volume Controller 4.1 (SVC) aggregates data lodged in storage arrays from IBM, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, among others, copies it, and recalls that data on the fly. Technologies […]

Analysis: Did Symantec sue Microsoft to throw a kink in its plans for Windows Vista, which will have security features similar to what Symantec offers? Depends on what you choose to believe. You can believe Symantec’s argument that Microsoft willfully misused the Volume Manager code Symantec acquired from Veritas to shore up security in its […]

Servers are still selling at a healthy clip, but customers are consolidating gear to cut costs, according to new research from IDC and Gartner. IDC said worldwide server sales dipped 1.9 percent to 11.9 billion in the first quarter of 2006 after several quarters of growth. The research firm said 2 million units shipped during […]

Barebones IT staffs, have no fear. IBM introduced the Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database, software that deploys and runs applications on software, hardware, storage and networks in separate departments within a business. To accompany this release, and three Tivoli Process Managers, software fixes computer failures, provides software updates and patches and manages storage machines […]

IBM has taken some of its hardware and software technology and applied it to three appliances designed to secure and improve the performance of service-oriented architectures (SOA) . The devices are adapted versions of the machines created by DataPower, which IBM purchased last fall to dip a leg into the lucrative pool for XML processing. […]

Flash memory startup Spansion today tacked on a copyright infringement claim against rival Macronix, seeking $100 million. The suit, which builds on Spansion’s allegations that Macronix infringed on its trademark and practiced false advertising, alleges that Macronix misrepresented itself as an authorized second source for Spansion MirrorBit Flash memory, and falsely marketed its products as […]

UPDATED: Symantec sued Microsoft Thursday, charging it with misappropriating its intellectual property and breaching its contract and patent infringement, among other trespasses. Symantec said in a filing with a district court in Seattle that it seeks an injunction to stop Microsoft from selling Vista and other software products that use its technology, and seeks the […]

Microsoft has agreed to buy security appliance specialist Whale Communications Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. Microsoft said Whale’s Intelligent Application Gateway and Application Optimizers provide Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) virtual private networks (VPN) and application firewalls that offer enterprises tight control over who they provide remote access to. Whale’s Windows-based gateways and software will work […]