Clint Boulton

EMC unveiled Invista, software that will lead the company’s highly anticipated entry into the storage virtualization market. Invista is EMC’s effort to silence critics and better compete with rivals, such as IBM and Hitachi Data Systems. Advanced software for Global 2000 enterprises, it is designed to be bundled with intelligent switches from partners Cisco Systems […]

Customers building out more robust service-oriented architectures are looking for ways to gain more knowledge about their computing systems. SOA management firm Actional wants to help. The company’s new software platform is offering “ghost agent” technology designed to make technologies based on languages other than XML or SOAP visible. Called Looking Glass and SOAPstation 5.5, […]

UPDATED: Sun Microsystems and Microsoft are working on new specifications that would allow Web single sign-on between their operating systems. The companies, whose goal is to help Windows and Java work together, have also inked a licensing deal to allow Windows to run on Sun hardware and teamed up to manage Web services . Plans […]

Security software maker Trend Micro has won an injunction against Fortinet, banning the security appliance maker from selling its anti-virus firewall machines in the United States. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) determined that Fortinet’s FortiGate products infringe a server-based antivirus technology patent Trend Micro has owned in the U.S. since 1997. The patent, secured […]

BEA Systems is targeting government agencies with a tool to help them rate their distributed computing models. Call it a readiness assessment service for grading Uncle Sam’s progress toward service-oriented architecture . SOAs are reference architecture models that help businesses consolidate or integrate applications, reusing software and services to cut down on the manual production […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today jumpstarted a bid to make it easier to access the Web from a mobile device, a dodgy feat that threatens to thwart advanced mobile communications globally. The standards body launched the Mobile Web Initiative to show users that it is serious about improving the quality of Internet access […]

UPDATED: Applications maker Lawson Software has chosen IBM’s software and hardware as its backbone of choice for building out its service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Lawson will ship its financial, supply-chain management, human resources and other applications with IBM’s WebSphere, DB2, Rational and Tivoli software. The company will […]

The furor over two Web services specifications that solve similar problems has apparently dissipated. E-Business standards body OASIS has agreed to develop WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-Reliability, competing protocols for making sure Web services messages are properly exchanged, under one roof. Message exchange could include purchase orders, driving commerce over the Internet. Announced in January 2003, WS-Reliability […]

Looking to reclaim some of its lost market share in the storage sector, HP next week will release a slew of products that help businesses preserve, manage and archive data. The company will embark on its greatest product launch to date next week when it announces new hardware and services at its HP Americas StorageWorks […]

UPDATED: Microsoft has released a private beta of a new business intelligence (BI) application, hoping to tap into the rich market for creating corporate performance reports. Code-named Maestro, the new application uses the ubiquitous Microsoft Office to help businesses get to the root of their operational and employee performance. The software, part of an offshoot […]

Sybase bought two ways to help it handle data for customers with its purchase of information integration and management software makers. The Avaki purchase will help companies that traffic a lot of data integrate their software assets into one cohesive system. Sybase will incorporate the technology into its information management software suite. Sybase also purchased […]

Sun Microsystems will acquire the network-attached storage (NAS) system assets of Procom Technology for $50 million in cash. The deal, rumored for months, isn’t much of a stretch. Procom’s NAS software has been running in Sun’s StorEdge 5000 NAS servers since April 2004 under a software licensing agreement. NAS systems have their own network address […]