Clint Boulton

Acknowledging that a serious mainframe requires serious software to manage its many activities, IBM is preparing new Tivoli software for its next major mainframe, the z9. The suite includes about a dozen workload management, monitoring and system capacity planning utilities that guide and secure both the major and minor transactions floating throughout the large zSeries […]

BEA Systems took steps to improve its WebLogic integration software, adding support for a major business process execution language (BPEL) standard. WebLogic Integration 8.5 supports BPEL4WS 1.1, the latest major BPEL standard, by allowing customers to develop business processes and export them as BPEL processes. Moreover, BPEL processes developed in other tools can be imported […]

Fresh off of ushering in its AquaLogic plan for more flexible computing, BEA Systems released a new version of its bread-and-butter application server. WebLogic Server 9.0 is the industry’s first “zero downtime” application server, thanks to improvements to the product’s kernel code and new tooling, said Bill Roth, BEA vice president of product marketing. This […]

Chris Stone, who was instrumental in Novell’s acquisition of SUSE Linux, has been a busy man since leaving the Utah software maker last November to pursue other interests. Stone, who, as Novell’s vice chairman in the office of the CEO, had been responsible for engineering, product management and alliances, spent a good part of his […]

Sybase has agreed to acquire mobile software maker Extended Systems for $71.3 million in cash to prop up its plan to let corporate employees tap into their companies’ computers from the road. Boise, Idaho-based Extended makes a patented software server called OneBridge that provides secure mobile access for applications from personal digital assistants and handheld […]

MicroStrategy claimed the latest victory in its legal battle with Business Objects. The McLean, Va., business intelligence software maker said a California court dismissed the last patent infringement claim in a lawsuit brought by Business Objects. France’s Business Objects alleged in October 2001 that MicroStrategy infringed on its patent covering a relational database access system […]

Computer Associates more than doubled its profit for the first quarter of this year but continued to chip away at its staff in the hopes of saving $75 million for the year. CA’s latest restructuring move highlights CEO John Swainson’s pledge to get the company back on its feet and stronger than ever. The staff […]

Customers concerned about where to turn once Microsoft ends support for its Exchange Server 5.5 collaboration and messaging server needn’t worry, according to Dell . The Round Rock, Texas, company said it is throwing Exchange 5.5 users a lifeline by offering server, storage and software packages for businesses upgrading to Exchange Server 2003 before support […]

EMC is beginning to offer storage security, though the data protection products it will be selling are not purchased or homegrown. The Hopkinton, Mass., information systems vendor has agreed to resell storage security products from Decru, NeoScale and CipherOptics as part of its Select Program, internetnews.com has learned. The program makes it easier for customers […]

Who said the PC is killing the mainframe computer? Those that heard IBM officials talk about the potential of the mainframe in the modern computing age would think that Big Iron has always waxed and never waned. For Big Blue, the talk is now centered around collaborative processing at a time when supply chains have […]

NEW YORK — IBM introduced a new mainframe with double the power, memory and capacity of its z990 ancestor. The company also trotted out the second iteration of its Virtualization Engine and proposed the creation of the Blade.org group. Equipped with as many as 54 processors in one box, the z9 mainframe processes as much […]

Low cost fibre channel disk drives are in as far as leading storage vendors like HP and EMC are concerned. Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) disk drives have a fibre channel interface that help corporations store infrequently accessed information at a reasonable cost, and at a faster rate than tape systems. While FATA and SATA […]