Clint Boulton

Nortel Networks has picked Mike Zafirovski as president and CEO to replace Bill Owens, signaling the end of another tumultuous era in the management of one of the top telecommunications gear providers. Zafirovski has impressive credentials, having recently vacated his post as president and COO of Motorola, which he held since 2002 after serving as […]

Looking to improve its position in the server virtualization market, VMware will unveil ESX Server 3 and VirtualCenter 2 software at the company’s annual show in Las Vegas later today. VMware has added high-availability software to both the virtualization capabilities in ESX Server 3, and the control and management utilities in VirtualCenter 2 to accommodate […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Some might consider VSLive in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., a bit of foreplay for the major launch of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 on Nov. 7 in San Francisco. But hey, it was still fun. During his keynote at VSLive Wednesday, Richard Turner, a product manager of Web […]

Viacom unit MTV Networks purchased streaming video purveyor IFILM for $49 million, the latest example of media companies snapping up profitable businesses that use the Internet as a medium for online advertising sales. The viral and user-generated nature of IFILM, which boasts over 10 million monthly users who tap into the network for short films, […]

IBM, in the midst of an annual upgrade of storage hardware and software, expanded its tape drives and data archiving solutions for small, medium and large businesses. Chief among the new products is the Armonk, N.Y. company’s fastest tape drive to date, the Storage System TS1120. The drive is more than twice as fast and […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Microsoft is in the advanced stages of building a software application that enables distributed computing among various computing devices. At VSLive today, company officials generated buzz for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), formerly known as Indigo, by showing how it works for both commercial and enterprise scenarios. WCF, formerly known as […]

IBM and Novell have conjured a new subscription plan to make it easier and more cost-effective for corporate customers to run and manage Novell’s Linux operating system on IBM blade servers. The option calls for a single subscription of Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for as many as 14 blades within the BladeCenter chassis, regardless […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Once thought of as two separate worlds, applications and database software are converging due to the increasingly distributed nature of modern computing. Bill Baker, general manager of SQL Server Business Intelligence, said the proliferation of service-oriented architectures (SOA) and Web services prompted his team to consider how to rearrange the […]

UPDATED: BEA Systems today purchased ConnecTerra, a privately held maker of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) software, for an undisclosed sum. ConnecTerra, of Cambridge, Mass., makes middleware that can help retailers pull supply chain data from applications on a variety of devices and render them through one, easily readable console. BEA said in a statement ConnecTerra’s […]

Microsoft extended a set of olive branches to the little guy in the United States, offering small businesses an IT services promotion that could put $100 back in their coffers for every license they purchase. The IT services promotion is a way for businesses that purchase a minimum of five Microsoft Office 2003 and Windows […]

As previously expected, HP and IBM launched new servers to accompany the launch of Intel’s Xeon DP dual-core chips, code-named Paxville. The chip has two processing engines, or cores, to pack more power onto a single wafer without boosting power consumption. These factors make dual-core very attractive to cost- and space-conscious enterprise customers. HP is […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Operating under the notion that less code equals greater productivity, Microsoft officials demonstrated how programmers can use Visual Studio 2005 to cut the amount of code writing in applications by 50 percent to 75 percent. During the opening keynote for VSLive here, Microsoft Visual Studio Product Manager Jay Schmelzer showed […]