Clint Boulton

EMC introduced a push to lure customers in the small- and medium-sized market with Making Storage Simple, a strategy that harnesses new solutions, channel and partnerships for businesses in the $1 million to $1 billion range. The idea for the program came after extensive research conducted by EMC over the last few years, in which […]

If the number of business intelligence (BI) installations drops over the next few years, it will likely be due to the lethal tandem of too few personnel to get them up and running and a high total-cost-of-ownership. Research firm Gartner said a lack of user expertise and the high costs associated with it could stifle […]

UPDATED: IBM has improved the ability of its content management software to handle XML-based documents, broadening the scope of data types the products can capture, manage and search. The Armonk, N.Y., company issued versions 8.3 of DB2 Content Manager, DB2 Document Manager and DB2 CommonStore IBM that use the performance and integration perks of Project […]

Oracle defended its title as the top database software maker in 2004, a year that saw the market grow 11.6 percent to $14.9 billion as businesses filled out unmet database management needs. The order for the top five database providers stayed the same from 2003 with the vendors growing their businesses in varying degrees, according […]

Oracle is now offering its Business Intelligence (BI) 10g as a standalone suite to give managers better insight into their businesses, as well as to take its share of the multi-billion-dollar market for BI software. BI 10g gives users the ability to query, and perform reporting and analysis, data integration and management tasks, all functions […]

Sonic Software has added a collaboration server and database service to the new version of its service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform, built on top of the company’s enterprise service bus (ESB) technology. Sonic CTO Gordon Van Huizen said the company created the new products to round out the company’s SOA Infrastructure 6.1, a suite that helps […]

The way IBM sees it, the market for enterprise search — where employees sift through networks to find very specific information — is wide open. The company has hundreds of software engineers dedicated to various research projects that blend corporate search with software integration to make life easier for employees. But Big Blue’s search and […]

ChoicePoint will discontinue its sale of products that contain Social Security numbers, drivers licenses and other sensitive data as a result of a major database breach. Adding to those woes, the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating stock sales made by its top two executives after the breach. CEO Derek Smith and President Douglas Curling […]

StorageTek has broken down its global services organization into five practice areas to make the company more nimble at handling the information lifecycle management (ILM) strategies of customers. The new practices are services for implementation and education, data centers, storage assessment, business continuity and disaster recovery services and remote managed services. The Louisville, Colo., company […]

Business intelligence highlights the third Community Technology Preview (CTP) for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, which includes a tool that allows business users with little technical experience to create reports on the fly. The third SQL Server 2005 CTP boasts Report Builder, an advanced, ad-hoc reporting tool Microsoft integrated from its ActiveViews acquisition last year. Report […]

HP Ireland isn’t counting on luck to help it become the top IT services provider in Ireland. The subsidiary took steps to fortify its position as a leading IT provider overseas when it acquired Schlumberger Business Continuity Services in a multi-million-euro deal, the latest in a string of IT services buys overseas. Specific figures for […]

E-business standards group OASIS has approved the Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) version 2.0, a key standard for access control policies. Fostered by OASIS members such as IBM , Sun Microsystems , BEA Systems and Computer Associates , XACML is a crucial security component that grants or denies access to applications. At a higher […]