Clint Boulton

Leaders of Symantec and Veritas met with investors Wednesday to convince skeptics of the wisdom of the marriage between the industry giants. Symantec Chairman and CEO John Thompson said a combination of the leading security software and back-up software makers will help solve problems many CIOs face: Preserving information integrity while making it highly available. […]

Single sign-on standards group Liberty Alliance has appointed Intel executive George Goodman president. Goodman replaced Michael Barrett, vice president of security strategy at American Express, whose term expired. Presidents of the Liberty Alliance serve one-year terms, according to a spokesman, who said Barrett will remain on the board as vice president. As director of Intel’s […]

Research engineers at Sun Microsystems are creating a new storage appliance to help enterprises locate specific files within a large pool of data. Sun is basing the network-attached storage machine on technology it calls Project Honeycomb, a cluster architecture that uses new metadata and search tools to retrieve files in large storage systems much more […]

Apple has shipped its latest 64-bit cluster file system for storage area networks . Called Xsan, the software is geared for video workflows as well as storage consolidation for business, government, education and high performance computing, Apple said. Slated for a fall delivery when it was announced in April, the release can enable up to […]

IBM’s outbound personal computing unit lost $965 million over the last three years, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In the filing, Big Blue reported net losses of $139 through June 2004, $258 million in 2003, $171 million in 2002 and a total loss of $397 million in 2001 — […]

Oracle fired PeopleSoft’s co-presidents and replaced them with its own co-presidents after Oracle gained a controlling stake in its rival enterprise software company. PeopleSoft Co-President Phillip Wilmington and Co-President and Chief Financial Officer Kevin Parker were replaced last week, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Oracle named Safra Catz and Charles […]

The market for enterprise search might seem like a three-horse race between Google , Microsoft and Yahoo , but another contender has the sector looking over its shoulder: IBM . Researchers in IBM’s information management systems unit have been discussing intelligence systems that are highly intuitive, with new software systems that go beyond traditional search […]

UPDATED: Microsoft has lost another partner to market its single sign-on services after auction giant eBay said it will no longer support Passport and its .NET alerts. In a notice released late Wednesday, eBay said members will have to sign in through eBay directly starting in late January. “Once this takes place, the Microsoft Passport […]

Chipmaker Intel has made three new investments in companies that specialize in making software for digitizing the home. Intel Capital pumped undisclosed amounts into networking and support software concern Gteko, as well as additional financing for online services specialist Synacor, and digital magazine distributor Zinio Systems. Israel-based Gteko, whose customers include HP, Cisco-Linksys and Canon, […]

Oracle has taken majority ownership of PeopleSoft after that company’s stockholders tendered roughly 75 percent of their shares in favor of the $10.3 billion acquisition. The news is a major step forward for Oracle in its bid for PeopleSoft, but the tender falls short of the 90 percent required for a total takeover. If Oracle […]

PeopleSoft’s Chairman and CEO David Duffield resigned from the company on Dec. 21, just one week after PeopleSoft’s board agreed to accept Oracle’s $10.3 billion acquisition offer. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday, Duffield resigned last Tuesday, Dec. 21. The filing provide no more information and PeopleSoft did not […]

Looking to lure a larger customer base, DataCore Software has negotiated a deal to ship its storage virtualization software with adapters from Promise Technology. Promise, a leader of ATA RAID data protection, has agreed to include a copy of DataCore’s SANmelody Lite software with every storage adapter card it sells. The software serves disk capacity […]