Clint Boulton

Storage management software totaled $5.6 billion in 2004, a 12.3 percent increase attributed to the increasing demand placed on corporations by federal compliance rules. EMC led the storage management space, as usual, increasing its market share to 29.5 percent on sales of $1.66 billion. Veritas Software, in the midst of being acquired by Symantec, followed […]

Sepaton has upgraded its virtual tape library (VTL), adding performance and features to keep up with its competitors. The startup’s S2100-ES2 is an appliance that has a VTL as its primary application. VTL lets disks emulate tape by creating separate libraries for each host while sharing the same physical tape library. This allows users to […]

Microsoft plans to take a hard-charge at the burgeoning market for computer virtualization, including offering greater Linux support, its chief executive said today. Amid jokes about cooperating with rivals such as Sun Microsystems , Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company would boost support for its Virtual Server 2005 software to run on non-Windows machines. […]

Microsoft has its sights set on the next generation of management software as it seeks to be a leader in applications that care for computer systems. The software power is heading toward service-oriented monitoring, which allows administrators to set policies on services they want to offer their end users, said Kirill Tatarinov, corporate vice president […]

IBM upgraded its WebSphere MQ software in order to help businesses integrate disparate applications as the backbone for a service-oriented architecture . The new WebSphere MQ 6.0 is designed to track the flow of information in a business and ensure its safe delivery. IBM said the software can pare the cost of maintaining custom or […]

Dell continued to find creative ways to appeal to the small- and medium-sized business market it favors, offering Microsoft management software for $50 per server. The computer maker will offer Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Workgroup Edition, designed for customers running 10 or fewer Windows servers, on its PowerEdge machines. Dell’s special $50 per machine […]

EMC nearly doubled its first-quarter profits from a year ago, reporting a net income of $270 million on 11 cents per share compared to the $140 million from the same quarter a year ago. Revenue for the first quarter was $2.24 billion, up 20 percent from the year-ago period. Growth was spurred by software license […]

Microsoft moved closer to significant releases of its development and database environments, both slated to appear before the end of 2005. Officials from the Redmond, Wash., software power announced the second beta of Visual Studio 2005, .NET Framework 2.0 beta 2, and the April Community Technology Preview (CTP) of SQL Server 2005. Users will increasingly […]

UPDATED: Adobe Systems agreed to acquire rival Macromedia for $3.4 billion in a deal that sets the stage for a showdown with Microsoft in the graphics software space. Adobe and Macromedia have fought it out in the market for creating digital documents and other forms of rich media for years. Macromedia is particularly prized for […]

EMC has created a network attached storage (NAS) gateway to target environments with thousands of file systems. Tom Joyce, EMC vice president of platforms, confirmed the Celerra NSX NAS will rev up to 300,000 network file system (NFS) operations per second. As previously reported by internetnews.com, the machine will come with new X-Blade server technology […]

Fifteen vendors with a common interest in distributed computing will show how they’ve been able to get the Web Services (WS) Security standard to work with each other’s products next week. IBM, Microsoft, BEA Systems and others are participating in the demonstration at Gartner’s Application Integration and Web Services Summit next Wednesday. The demo will […]

In 1999, VMware stood alone at the top of the virtualization heap, making software to help consolidate workloads on desktops with its WorkStation product. VMware entered the server market in 2001, offering ESX Server and GSX Server for partitioning, consolidating and managing computing resources. Over the next few years the company added a variety of […]