Clint Boulton

HP is saying goodbye to point-to-point security and hello to complete PC-to-datacenter protection. HP  today introduced new security products under one new umbrella, Secure Advantage, intended to protect data as it moves between personal computers to servers in datacenters. The company announced the upgrades and strategy change at its Technology Forum in Las Vegas. First […]

UPDATED: Yahoo CEO and board chairman Terry Semel today passed the torch to company co-founder Jerry Yang after months of missteps and grumblings from former employees and investors about the way the company was being handled. Semel will assume the position of non-executive board chairman and serve as an adviser to the company’s senior management […]

Blade server specialist Verari Systems is leveraging Teradici’s PC-over-IP chipset to transport high-resolution DVI signals from the data center over a TCP/IP network to workstations and desktop PCs. With the new VerariIP consolidated desktop solution, Verari BladeRack 2 machines will use the Teradici chipset to pipe 1920-by-1200 resolution DVI signals to workstation or desktop PC […]

Two of the prime pure-play startups in the complex event processing (CEP) software space have made over their platforms in time for the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) tech show this week in New York City. StreamBase Systems and Coral8 today unveiled the fifth versions of their CEP platforms, which are designed to […]

IBM , CA , HP , Microsoft  and CA  have been selling products to help companies keep track of who is using what in the datacenter. But Vigilar, by offering similar IT security and compliance coverage as a service, has designs on making the way companies manage and secure their digital corporate assets a less […]

Watch out cable: here comes satellite. Satellite TV giants DirectTV  and EchoStar Communications  said they have agreed to offer their customers Clearwire’s  wireless Internet service later this year. Financial terms of the deal, which also allows Clearwire to offer the video services of one or both satellite companies to its customers, were not made public. […]

Cisco  and IBM  said they have expanded their strategic alliance to bring service assurance and fault management to telecommunications providers. Cisco next month plans to begin offering Cisco Assurance Management Solution, a product that pairs its Active Network Abstraction (ANA) software with IBM Tivoli Netcool software to help service providers better manage new services. The […]

Reporter’s Notebook: KISSIMMEE, Fla. — I knew virtualization would be a pervasive theme coming into the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations and Management Summit. I just didn’t know it would be “throw a rock in a roomful of people and hit someone doing virtualization” pervasive. Dave McKnight, the first person I sat down to breakfast with […]

Symantec  today released a major upgrade to its NetBackup data-protection platform and pledged to unify its data protection, storage management and archiving platforms under one umbrella. Unveiled at the Symantec Vision 2007 show in Las Vegas today, NetBackup 6.5 boasts the unified management of all backup technologies in a datacenter and is first fresh leg […]

Informix isn’t ready to retire. IBM  said today it has refreshed its Informix Dynamic Server (IDS), adding continuous availability and disaster-recovery features to its online transaction-processing (OLTP) database. IDS 11, code-named Cheetah, handles massive amounts of data at very high speeds and with little maintenance. This means that even small businesses with tiny or no […]

Kissimmee, FLA. — Utility software specialist Cassatt and datacenter automation vendor BladeLogic today said they will integrate their software suites to connect how customers allocate resources on-demand and manage software configurations. The pact, announced at the Gartner’s Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit here, is designed to help IT administrators double up on the capital efficiency […]

If it’s data Microsoft  wants to master then the company’s latest buy will make it happen. The software giant said it will acquire partner Stratature and plans on using the company’s software as the glue of a master data-management offering that includes its business intelligence, SQL Server and Office SharePoint products. Master data management (MDM) […]