Clint Boulton

IBM today agreed to purchase Rembo Technology, a maker of software that helps companies automatically install or upgrade operating systems on thousands of servers, laptops and desktop computers at the same time. The buy fills a gap in IBM’s software portfolio and allows it to compete better with smaller rivals Opsware and Altiris in a […]

JavaOne has been the stomping ground for many a developer announcement in recent years, including Sun’s continued open sourcing of its Java software portfolio during yesterday’s keynote. Oracle and BEA also chipped in news regarding the popular programming language, championing persistence technologies as the fuel to accelerate the processing of applications, such as RSS feeds […]

VeriSign has taken yet another security software vendor out of independence for the good of its own agenda. The registrar and Internet software provider today agreed to purchase smaller rival GeoTrust for $125 million in cash. The deal will render moot a running debate about who is the leading SSL market provider, even though NetCraft […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today published Device Independence Authoring Language (DIAL), a markup script for how authors can write mobile content software that will work on different handheld devices. Mobile content is a multi-million-dollar opportunity for content creators and wireless operators. Millions of consumers want to play games, or download e-mail, video and […]

Determined to keep tape rolling in the red-hot storage market, IBM said its engineers have hit a new record in data density on linear magnetic tape. Researchers at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., packed data onto a test tape at a density of 6.67 billion bits per square inch. This compression, achieved […]

The executive carousel continues its merry-go-round at Sun Microsystems, with the latest changes coming under the aegis of new CEO Jonathan Schwartz. The systems vendor today tabbed John Fowler as executive vice president of Sun’s Systems Group, a role that combines the Sparc and x64 systems groups. Fowler, who was heading up Sun’s x64 machines, […]

Robert Davis, CA executive vice president and CFO, today became the latest executive to head for the revolving door of the management software vendor. Davis will leave under what the company said in a statement is a mutual agreement. Robert Cirabisi, CA senior vice president and corporate controller, will assume CFO duties while the company […]

IMS, Meet SOA. Voice, audio, video and mobile technologies are flinging open the floodgates for vendors who specialize in providing software to support service-oriented architectures . Software giants like Oracle, IBM and BEA Systems are marketing middleware for the telecommunications industry that enables SOAs, which shuttle Web services and integrate myriad applications. The strategies are […]

When you make one of your most successful products better, you’ll want to let the world know. BMC Software said it plans to unveil the second generation of its Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB), a cornerstone of the software maker’s business service management strategy. A CMDB is a database that houses relevant information about the […]

Just a few months ago, Jim Stallings led the open standards and IP income strategy for IBM’s technology and intellectual property division. But then IBM triggered an executive shuffle and relocated Stallings, who has a track record of providing a boost wherever he is placed, to head the systems group’s System z mainframe group. The […]

IBM today introduced a version of its autonomic software for grid computing environments. Batch-on-Grid adapts to the ebb and flow of computing workloads, applying server resources from the grid pool on the fly. The tool also corrects glitches or failures itself so IT administrators don’t have to baby-sit the computer and solve its problems. This […]

EMC today said it has purchased Interlink Group, a professional IT services firm that supports Microsoft software. Interlink specializes in IT gear, software integration, enterprise content management and customer relationship management for Microsoft environments. While financial terms were not made public, the purchase does two things for EMC: boosts its credibility as a supporter of […]