Clint Boulton

Rich Green is headed home to Sun Microsystems, a place where prodigal sons come and the company dances the executive shuffle. Green, who left Sun in April 2004 to help virtualization software start-up Cassatt get on its feet, will take over as executive vice president of software, a Sun spokesperson confirmed in an e-mail today. […]

Sun Microsystems is taking a more cohesive approach to helping customers manage computer data. At an event this morning in Washington, D.C., the systems vendor plans to announce that it will market its identity management, security, virtualization and hardware and software as a method for a more regimented way for businesses to corral data. The […]

Companies that tout distributed computing banded together today with a plan to make their software work together. This is an important goal because disparate products can hinder business performance if they cannot interoperate. JBoss, Infravio, AmberPoint and several other vendors have created SOA Link to promote the interoperability of their various service-oriented architecture (SOA) products, […]

Mercury Interactive, which makes applications that manage larger pieces of software on a computer network, unveiled a new product that aims for the sweet spot of change advisory boards. Mercury Change Control Management schedules and manages changes in the change management process, a place where modifications in software processes are choreographed. The software ensures that […]

Avocent, which supplies network connectivity gear to various businesses, agreed to purchase management software maker LANDesk Group for $416 million in cash and stock. The deal, expected to close in the next 60 to 75 days, will include $200 million in stock, $200 million in cash and $16 million in options. The transaction value may […]

Seagate Technology, which reinforced its hard drive position by acquiring rival Maxtor, is offering a desktop hard drive that stores as much as 750 gigabytes of data. Previous computer hard drives maxed out at 500GB. But Seagate’s new, self-described “monster” Barracuda 7200.10 line of desktop drives uses perpendicular recording technology to provide more performance than […]

Oracle today introduced two new pieces of software to secure data and applications and help customers better meet compliance requirements. Thanks to “realms and rules,” Oracle Database Vault keeps database administrators (DBAs) and other corporate insiders with technical know-how from accessing certain types of privileged information. The Redwood Shores, Calif., company’s Secure Backup encrypts data […]

Former CA CEO Sanjay Kumar pleaded guilty to fraud Monday, owning up to his role in one of the most storied accounting scandals in high-tech history. Kumar, along with Stephen Richards, CA’s former head of worldwide sales, plead guilty to securities fraud, obstruction of justice and perjury at a hearing with Judge I. Leo Glasser […]

Convinced that the demand for desktop virtualization software is picking up, VMware and more than 20 rivals, partners and allies today announced the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance. The alliance, which includes founders IBM, HP and Sun Microsystems, was formed as a haven for hardware, software and service providers to build virtual desktop software products together. […]

HP, in the midst of recovering lost market share in the market for storing data, released a new virtualization appliance and several pieces of software to spruce up its information lifecycle management (ILM) suite. Made popular by EMC, HP and other vendors for the last few years, ILM is a storage strategy that relies on […]

IBM next week will attack EMC after watching its long-time rival encroach on its data management territory for the last two years. The company Monday will unveil a storage compression software, code-named Venom, designed to help customers cut their storage hardware costs and usage in half, according to an IBM note obtained by internetnews.com. Venom, […]

Hyperion Solutions agreed to purchase partner Upstream Software, a Rochester, Mich.-based maker of workflow software to track the movement of financial information from sources to reports. Financial terms were not disclosed. Hyperion, which Thursday announced sub-par third-quarter earnings, said in a statement that finance leaders at hundreds of businesses use Upstream’s WebLink DM to improve […]