Clint Boulton

With the market for digital video surveillance heating up, it’s no surprise customers who use IP surveillance need a place to sock away the digital video footage their cameras shoot. Pivot3 is looking to cash in. The Spring, Texas, startup has created a way to use block-based virtualization to power IP-based storage clusters, giving customers […]

So you’re a feisty company in a burgeoning market loaded with tough competition, including Cisco Systems . What do you do to rise above the rest of the field? If you’re Packeteer Networks , you buy a company with ties to Microsoft . Packeteer bought Tacit Networks last year, inheriting Windows-based wide-area network (WAN) optimization […]

Sun Microsystems  today launched a new appliance designed to help telecommunications companies protect their customer data. The Sun Secure Data Retrieval Server (SDRS) includes a Sun Fire X4500, a special server that serves data and stores up to 24 terabytes of data in 7 inches of rack space, and Live Archive software from CopperEye that […]

Microsoft  and South Korea’s LG Electronics (LGE) inked a cross-license patent agreement to use each other’s technologies. This is the latest in a spate of such agreements designed to ward off patent-infringement issues. Going forward, LGE will be able to use Microsoft software in its products, such as Linux-based smartphones, PDAs and computers. Microsoft will […]

UPDATED: IBM  today agreed to buy security and compliance testing software vendor Watchfire for an undisclosed sum. Waltham, Mass.-based Watchfire makes AppScan, a security vulnerability testing suite that lets users identify potential security risks in applications. The product is designed to help fend off such attacks at the application layer as SQL injections, which are […]

With virtualization fast becoming required technology in the datacenter sprawl arena, high-tech purveyors can hardly afford to relax in the face of fierce competition. To help assert itself in the market, HP  today said it has enhanced its Virtual Server Environment (VSE) software, which partitions several HP-UX, Windows and Linux virtual machines on one physical […]

VMware is going hosting. The EMC-owned virtualization vendor, whose software helps companies minimize costs by spreading many operating systems across fewer physical computer servers, has launched the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP). VSPP allows service providers to host computer servers that will allow telecommunications companies and outsourcing businesses to dial computing resources up or down […]

IBM  settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today for issuing misleading statements about the impact of employee stock options on its 2005 earnings. IBM said in a statement that, while it neither admits nor denies wrongdoing and will pay no fine, it will cease and desist from violating the reporting provisions of the […]

UPDATED: It’s official. Avaya  said today it has agreed to merge with private equity firms Silver Lake and TPG Capital for $8.2 billion on $17.50 per share, a deal that underscores the strong interest in gear that routes voice, video and other data across networks. Avaya said in a statement its board of directors has […]

Adobe Systems  has upgraded its LiveCycle software, a suite the company launched nearly three years ago as a way to make document forms more dynamic. Now called LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES), the software is still designed to securely automate business processes so that companies can better serve their customers, partners and suppliers. Products such as […]

Battered in the tough, competitive market for smartphones, Palm  today agreed to sell a 25 percent stake to private equity firm Elevation Partners under a recapitalization plan that will bring former Apple executives into the mix. Elevation will pay Palm $8.50 per share, a 16 percent premium over Palm’s closing price the last 10 days, […]

EMC Corporation  today said it has purchased authentication software maker Verid, one of several moves security providers timed for the kick off of the Gartner IT Securoty Summit 2007 in Washington, D.C. today. Acquired for a private sum, Verid brings software to EMC’s RSA security company that helps financial institutions, telecom providers and retailers verify […]