Clint Boulton

NEW YORK — Oracle is leaving nothing to chance in making sure it gets the message out that it is a serious contender in the middleware market along with giants like IBM, BEA Systems and Microsoft. Armed with partners and customers, Oracle President Chuck Phillips and fellow executives descended on New York today to spread […]

EMC isn’t the first company that comes to mind when the topic of enterprise content management (ECM) pops up, not in a world peppered by independent ECM players like Interwoven and FileNet . But perhaps it should be. EMC, which entered the ECM market when it acquired Documentum almost two years ago, has just inked […]

UPDATED: Internet visionary Marc Andreessen has taken an interest in PHP , an open source programming language some consider a threat to languages, such as Java and Microsoft’s Active Server Pages and .NET. The Netscape co-founder along with Informatica Founder Gaurav Dhillon joined the board of directors at Zend Technologies, the top provider of PHP […]

BEA Systems aligned itself with the top open Java software development platform by acquiring Eclipse tools maker M7 for an undisclosed sum. BEA made the move on the Cupertino, Calif., company to pump up its self-described “blended” strategy for application development and deployment. This new turn for BEA involves bringing open source and commercial software […]

In an example of how technology makes it possible to store a lot of data on a small form factor, SanDisk has begun selling flash cards that can safely transport movies, music and games. The company’s new “gruvi” TrustedFlash cards will allow consumers to buy a variety of entertainment media types on flash memory cards […]

NEW YORK — Continuous data protection (CDP) might be getting all of the buzz of information lifecycle management (ILM) in the storage sector these days, but Microsoft isn’t ready to embrace the technology approach. The company is fresh off the launch of its System Data Protection Manager, which sits atop that Windows Server platform and […]

BEA Systems is intent on improving its ability to offer service-oriented architecture (SOA), and the company stayed on message at its BEA World 2005 event in Santa Clara, Calif. The company kicked its Think Liquid SOA strategy up a notch Tuesday, unveiling new products, partners and programs to lure customers to its distributed computing approach. […]

Thanks to its purchase of Topspin earlier this year, Cisco Systems is now selling gear that will help customers power their utility or on-demand computing systems. The San Jose, Calif., networking giant has integrated and updated the former Topspin’s InfiniBand-based Server Fabric Switch (SFS) portfolio and new VFrame 3.0 virtualization software to lure customers to […]

NEW YORK — Symantec has blended its Windows security application with the popular backup software from its Veritas acquisition to offer customers a continuous data protection (CDP) package. Officials for the security and data management software maker said the new Backup Exec 10d and Symantec LiveState Recovery applications ensure secure disk-based backup and recovery from […]

Making good on its promise to flesh out its Intel-based server line, IBM introduced the first member of what will be a family of low-priced servers for small- and medium-sized business. The IBM xSeries 100 server is a one-way, dual-core machine that sports some enterprise-grade capabilities, such as being able to manage and protect inventory […]

Continuous data protection (CDP), a disk-based philosophy for backing up and replicating data at any point in time, has been gaining a lot of momentum in the last few months. The cries for airtight data protection have grown louder, as corporations are wary of compliance regulations. That’s why Mendocino Software is proposing a system that […]

Dell is standing its ground in the school yard known as the server market with new products, and foregoing antagonizing remarks about competitors that are routine in the technology industry. Weeks after Sun Microsystems ripped the systems vendor’s servers as “slow, hot and huge,” Dell is releasing versions of its PowerEdge dual-core servers with two […]