Clint Boulton

It’s the moment some Google  fans have been waiting for. At least, the Linux-loving Google fans. Google released a beta version of its Desktop search application that runs on Linux, adding a third leg to its operating system support that includes Mac OS X and Windows. Google Desktop is a desktop search application that provides […]

Getting to an automated datacenter where all of the components run, deploy patches and upgrade without any manual help is a holy grail of sorts for IT managers. That’s exactly the place IBM  is trying to drive its customers with software such as the new Tivoli Compliance Insight Manager, which the company rolled out today. […]

CommScope  today agreed to buy wireless communications specialist Andrew Corporation  for $2.6 billion in mostly cash, a 16 percent premium over Andrew’s closing price from Tuesday. The deal comes more than a year after ADC failed to acquire Andrew for $2 billion, a sign that nothing is guaranteed in the highly competitive and converging market […]

The streamlining and musical management chairs at Yahoo  continued today as the media company today said it would combine its search and display advertising sales teams in the U.S. to better serve its ad partners. David Karnstedt, currently senior vice president of Yahoo’s Search sales business will lead the unified organization as head of North […]

Think Oracle  isn’t serious about stealing share from mainstays Business Objects  and Cognos  in the torrid business intelligence (BI) space? Not so fast. The software maker today rolled out its new Business Intelligence Standard Edition One, a pre-configured BI package targeted at small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and workgroups. Oracle Business Intelligence SE One boasts […]

Network Appliance  no longer wants to be noticed solely as a maker of storage boxes, so it’s stoking the fires of its data management strategy. The company has rewritten the ReplicatorX replication software it acquired from Topio last year to work with storage arrays from any vendor, including EMC , IBM , HP  and Hitachi […]

Try telling your IT manager that you’re going to put another security device in his datacenter; he’ll probably give you a murderous stare. That pretty much sums up what some companies are proposing for enterprises, banking on concerns and vulnerabilities over a rising mass of Internet applications, including peer-to-peer software, Web mail and video conferencing […]

UPDATED: Memo to Microsoft , Yahoo  and AOL: Watch out. Google is no longer the only search engine under governmental scrutiny for the duration with which it stores data. One month after the European Union questioned Google’s search data retention practices, the EU’s data protection party probe said it is investigating any Internet search engine […]

Dunes Technologies Monday will unveil an upgrade of its Virtual Service Orchestrator software for curbing the sprawl of virtual machines from VMware and Microsoft . Dunes Founder and CTO Stefan Hochuli Paychère said Dunes Virtual Service Orchestrator (VS-O) version 3.1 is designed to automate businesses processes as a virtual appliance, which combines an operating system […]

NEW YORK — Remember five years ago when Sun  and HP  embarked on campaigns to disparage the mainframe? Specifically, IBM’s  large refrigerator-sized zSeries machines. At the time, they had a market shift on their side; companies were fleeing the comfort of the mainframe for smaller, more modular and cheaper Intel servers. Rumor had it, they […]

NEW YORK — You didn’t really think IBM  would let the mainframe go away, did you? The company today improved its mainframe-oriented software to boost performance and security, and it created an online meeting place for collaboration. The news, announced at the IBM System z Summit meeting here, represents the next leg of the systems […]

UPDATED: Suddenly, the market for securing Web applications is white hot. HP  bid to buy to partner and applications security assessment startup SPI Dynamics for an undisclosed sum just two weeks after IBM  made a deal in the same arena. The deal, announced at HP’s Software Universe show in Las Vegas Tuesday, is designed to […]