Clint Boulton

HP’s software head became the latest executive to defect from the systems giant, as Nora Denzel left for what the company claims are “personal reasons.” Denzel, senior vice president and general manager of HP’s global software business unit, will be replaced in the interim by Todd DeLaughter, general manager of HP’s OpenView system management software […]

Looking to make a name for something more than carting companies’ data tapes around the country, Iron Mountain will pay $42 million to acquire backup specialist LiveVault. LiveVault offers disk-based online server backup and recovery software as a service to shore up the data housed on PCs and servers in small and medium-sized companies. The […]

UPDATED: The software landscape is filled with standards for Web services, but few exist for the more broad distributed computing models such as service-oriented architectures (SOA). That changed today as IBM, BEA Systems, Oracle, SAP AG and others vowed to create the SOA Programming Model, which includes specifications and open technologies to make it easier […]

HP has agreed to acquire identity management software partner Trustgenix, the latest in a series of acquisitions by major vendors that want to let their customers safely access information across corporate boundaries. Trustgenix makes single sign-on software that lets corporate customers link multiple accounts with different providers on the Internet so that secure user authentication […]

Small form factor and mobile PC hard disk drives (HDD) will represent a full quarter of worldwide semiconductor sales through 2009, thanks to snowballing interest in MP3 players, handheld computers and some smartphones. Research firm IDC said chip revenues in the small form factor HDD arena will balloon at a 39.4 percent compound annual growth […]

Grid is good. That’s the message Sun Microsystems is spreading as it hurtles toward next week’s final quarterly batch of news for 2005. The systems vendor today unveiled two new software services for U.K.-based customers keen on using the Sun Grid Storage Utility: Sun Grid Remote Backup and Restore Service (RBR) and Sun Grid Remote […]

Consolidation among technology and service providers is a familiar tune, and Logicalis knows it. The company agreed to buy Avnet’s U.S.-based HP enterprise end-user business for an undisclosed sum. Logicalis, a major HP partner and IT integration specialist, inked the deal for the $100 million unit with Avnet Partner Solutions, a division of Avnet that […]

With data protection a primary concern for many corporations trading information, Sepaton has added greater power to its tape library appliance. The Marlborough, Mass., company plans to announce at the Gartner Data Center conference next week that the S2100-ES2 Virtual Tape Library (VTL) appliance now boasts double the processing power in a single device. VTLs […]

If Microsoft is the big cat prowling the Serengeti of software with its Windows operating system, companies that promote Linux are playing the part of elk, banding together in protective herds. In a 30-day span, four groups backed by a number of companies pledging their allegiance to open source software launched with an emphasis on […]

Volume servers based on 64-bit, x86 platforms and dual-core chips carried the server market for the third quarter, with those machines totaling a quarter of the spending. Research firm IDC also said revenues ballooned 8.1 percent from the year-ago quarter to total $12.5 billion. Server revenue leader IBM posted a share of 32.3 percent for […]

Think Oracle’s winning bid for Retek over SAP didn’t rattle the No. 1 applications maker’s cage? Think again. Reinforcing that the retail space is a fertile battleground for selling merchants’ applications, German giant SAP today agreed to buy privately held Khimetrics for an undisclosed sum. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Khimetrics makes Java-based software that allows retailers to […]

Looking to capitalize on the growing interest businesses have in saving paper by digitizing documents, IBM today introduced a new piece of electronic forms software. IBM Workplace Forms helps employees take corporate data, such as inventory figures, customer data or pricing information, and present it in a clean, easy-to-read form. The software is intuitive and […]