Clint Boulton

High-tech pundits and analysts don’t have a hard time agreeing that storage and security will ultimately meet in the middle to blaze some significant trails for data protection. People just don’t always agree on the cost it could take to get there. Consider that skeptics hemmed and hawed about Symantec’s colossal bid to buy storage […]

IBM agreed to acquire partner Isogon Corp., which makes software that tracks inventory and applications running on mainframe computers. Financial terms of the deal were not made public. Based in New York City, Isogon makes software that allows enterprises to gauge usage and licenses for operating systems, middleware and packaged applications running on zSeries mainframes. […]

Network Appliance agreed to acquire storage security specialist Decru for $272 million in cash and stock in a deal to help corporations defend their data from prying eyes. NetApp CEO Dan Warmenhoven had to defend the purchase on a conference call with analysts, explaining that the company has no plans to integrate Decru technology into […]

Sun Microsystems is offering a service registry to help clients pinpoint and manage Web services, a boon for corporations that have such services scattered far and wide across their networks. Registries are important tools for Web services users. Without such repositories, users find it nearly impossible to find the right services when they need them, […]

BEA Systems is throwing new muscle behind its AquaLogic service-oriented architecture software to wash out the competition. The company, working to catch up to rival IBM in the middleware space, named Rob Levy executive vice president of new products strategy. Levy will oversee research and development, product management, quality assurance and support of the new […]

IBM and HP have new server offerings to pump up their enterprise computing portfolios. IBM has begun selling eServer BladeCenter servers running single- and dual-core AMD Opteron LS20 chips, according to a page on the company’s Web site confirming rumors about the thin system. IBM said the hardware will help customers boost performance on high-performance […]

UPDATED: HP’s new CEO, Mark Hurd, announced a major operations shift at the systems vendor, splitting the Personal Systems Group (PSG) and Imaging and Personal Systems Group (IPG) into stand alone units. Hurd, who took over for the ousted Carly Fiorina with a mandate to improve some of HP’s sagging businesses, tapped former palmOne skipper […]

The Liberty Alliance Project is stepping up its assault on identity theft with the creation of a new group geared to stymie criminal activity on the Web. The Liberty Identity Theft Prevention Group, which includes Liberty members RSA Security, Nokia, AOL and American Express, say they will fight ID theft around the world. The move […]

Macrovision acquired privately held Zero G Software, giving the maker of installation software a multi-platform suite to complement its InstallShield product for putting Windows onto corporate computers. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Macrovision, of Santa Clara, Calif., will add Zero G’s InstallAnywhere multi-platform installation product, along with SolutionArchitect, a software-packaging solution for […]

BEA Systems’ launch of its AquaLogic service-oriented architecture (SOA) family could mean more for the company than a standard foray into distributed computing. The San Jose, Calif., company proposed a new approach to enterprise computing that, if it is realized, could shatter any claim to “openness” BEA could have possibly made before. The software maker’s […]

IBM released a companion to its fastest supercomputer that boasts a top speed of 91.29 teraflops and runs at IBM’s own Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., the company said today. The Watson Blue Gene system (BGW) is comprised of 20 refrigerator-sized racks, less than one-half the size of systems of comparable […]

Storage software maker Archivas upgraded its core application with new search and indexing perks and added more availability and performance. The Waltham, Mass., company’s Cluster (ArC), version 1.5 software is different from data movement applications manufactured by rivals Veritas, OuterBay or iLumin. ArC is data repository software that receives content from other e-mail or database […]