Clint Boulton

In a major merger of Flash memory leaders, Micron Technology today agreed to purchase Lexar Media for roughly $688 million in stock. Under terms of the agreement, each outstanding share of Lexar will receive 0.5625 shares of Micron stock. The cost of the deal is based on Micron’s Tuesday close of $14.98, with Lexar shares […]

Microsoft today said it has purchased Apptimum to prop up its Windows Vista operating system. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Microsoft said in a statement it plans to use Apptimum’s Alohabob PC Relocator products to make it a cinch for Windows customers to transfer applications to their new computers. The Redmond, Wash., […]

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) today said it has appointed Dave Roberson as president and CEO, replacing Shinjiro Iwata. Effective April 1, Iwata will become chief marketing officer for the Information and Telecommunications Systems Group (ITSG) for HDS’s parent company, Hitachi, Inc. HDS, also announced that Minoru Kosuge, executive vice president and chief storage architect, has […]

Acquisition-hungry Cisco Systems today agreed to buy video surveillance vendor SyPixx Networks for $51 million in cash and stock. SyPixx Networks makes software and hardware that converts footage from traditional analog video surveillance systems into digital form and pipes it over a computer network. SyPixx products include analog to digital video camera encoders, digital to […]

OASIS is already credited with bringing the OpenDocument Format (ODF) to the market last May. Now, in an effort to drive ODF product development, the standards body has created the ODF Adoption committee, which is tailored to boost the number of products based on ODF. Members of the committee include IBM, Sun, Novell and Oracle. […]

EMC has acquired Authentica, a privately held maker of security software that helps companies and government agencies protect critical information. Authentica makes the Active Rights Management platform, which lets companies control and manage information housed on anything from e-mail to Microsoft Office documents and Adobe PDF files. The software is often used within a workgroup, […]

Dell, EMC, Intel and LSI Logic today said they have formed the Storage Bridge Bay Working Group (SBB), whose mission is to provide some flexibility in the way interface cards can be used on storage boxes. Currently, specific interface controllers for classes of storage such as JBOD (just a bunch of disks) and RAID (redundant […]

Sun Microsystems is well-known for its Unix servers and Java software among its product lines. Less well-known, perhaps, is its research division. That may be changing. Sun’s Lab today will introduce Project Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (SPOT), a remote control gadget that creates sensor-oriented applications for wireless sensor networks and consumer electronics. Wireless sensors […]

It’s a familiar equation. For every Microsoft technology, there is an open source answer to counter it. Earlier this week, IBM, Novell, startup Parity Communications and Harvard’s Internet research group unveiled an effort to let Net users manage and manipulate their personal identity information online. Project Higgins is a framework that will let computer users […]

Hungry to return to profitability after hemorrhaging cash for years, Silicon Graphics today said it would trim 250 positions and announced key management changes as part of a corporate restructuring. SGI accepted the resignations of CFO Jeff Zellmer and COO Warren Pratt who are leaving to pursue other interests. Kathy Lanterman, currently the corporate controller […]

UPDATED: EMC has found a way to apply automated root cause and impact analysis software to the networked-attached storage (NAS) realm, an achievement one analyst called “huge.” The company next week will unveil Smart IP Availability Manager for NAS, industry sources told internetnews.com. The software, which will work with new Celerra NAS servers EMC plans […]

UPDATED: Several high profile and groups have banded together to show solidarity for the OpenDocument Format (ODF), a collection of office document formats to help organizations share digital information. The Software & Information Industry Association, IBM, Sun Microsystems and a host of other vendors and groups today announced the creation of the OpenDocument Format Alliance […]