Clint Boulton

BEA Systems is giving its Tuxedo transaction processing platform a new fitting and jazzing up the software with a more slick look and feel based on service-oriented architecture . Lorenzo Cremona, director of marketing for Tuxedo, said Tuxedo 9.0 is designed to help customers build new and repurpose legacy applications and extend them to a […]

UPDATED: Oracle introduced a new licensing scheme designed to lure users to its latest software running on multi-core processor machines. The move, a price/performance decrease of 25 percent from Oracle’s previous licensing model, could curb the harsh criticism the company weathered from customers who protested paying for each socket or core in a multi-core chip. […]

Web services software has evolved from a state of creation to more rampant consumption, according to an IDC report, which expects the market to hit about $15 billion by 2009. Major vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems and others will blaze trails in Web services security, management, messaging and event processing utilities. […]

Distributed computing with Oracle software should get a lot more efficient. Oracle officials said the company has merged its Oracle BPEL Process Manager with Oracle Web Services Manager engines to make it easier for customers to deliver secure computer services to clients or partners. Together, the products allow programmers to write secure Web services without […]

Sun Microsystems is freeing up code from its Java System Access Manager software to let programmers create single sign-on over the Internet. The project, Open Web Single Sign-On (OpenSSO) project, will include source code for authentication and single domain SSO. Sun will include software hooks to connect the Web site authentication and SSO technologies with […]

Lexar Media was dealt a blow in its legal war with Toshiba after a California Superior Court judge declined the Flash memory maker’s request for Toshiba to stop selling its own Flash products. The silver lining for Lexar is that Superior Court Judge Jack Komar found that Toshiba engaged in unfair or unlawful competition, a […]

Dell CIO Randall D. Mott crossed enemy lines Monday, joining HP to pump up the way the rebounding company handles its information and technology assets. Mott will serve as executive vice president and CIO, replacing Gilles Bouchard, who will remain executive vice president of global operations. The new hire will oversee the way internal information […]

IBM has scored a coup in the battle to neutralize the heat that threatens to burn out server computers. The Armonk, N.Y., company unveiled the eServer Rear Door Heat Exchanger, a piece of hardware for customers whose data centers have reached the limits of cooling capacity, but may still want to add more processing power […]

Hewlett-Packard is using a classic price/performance play to undercut the competition in the storage hardware space: Selling a machine with enterprise-level functionality at an entry-level price. The systems vendor hopes its new StorageWorks XP10000 Disk Array pays off as part of a strategy to make customers feel like they are getting a bargain by selling […]

IBM is getting into the dual-core processing game, with the announcement of its new PowerPC 970MP chip, the dual-core version of the PowerPC 970FX. Code-named Antares, the 970MP yields more than double the performance of its predecessor and is designed for customers who require 64-bit symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) in a small, entry-level embedded system ranging […]

Dell began its gradual changeover to dual-core processors on its computer servers, announcing the PowerEdge SC430 as the first machine to use the technology. Dual-core technology combines two sockets, or processing units, into a single processor chip. Experts on processors claim this leads to increases in performance despite consuming only the power of a single-core […]

Microsoft said it will make its disk-based storage software available for manufacturers within the next 30 days to cater to customers looking for an alternative to tape-based storage. System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is designed to help corporations trim operational costs associated with the manual recovery of lost data, chores that can be onerous […]