Clint Boulton

New critical flaws in Microsoft Windows have sent security experts scrambling to warn users of the ubiquitous operating system. Numerous security vendors, including Symantec and Secunia, issued warnings about the flaws after Chinese security group Xfocus first reported them last week. But as of Monday, Microsoft had not provided patches for the flaws. Xfocus found […]

UPDATED: Faced with stiff competition from server vendor giants like IBM and HP , RLX Technologies will stop selling blade servers and focus instead on selling software to manage blades. RLX will continue to provide hardware support to its existing customers and hardware warranties will be honored, said Scott Farrand, vice president of software engineering […]

Security experts at U.K.-based Next Generation Security Software brought tidings of security vulnerabilities in Oracle and IBM software in time for the Christmas holiday. But both companies have issued patches and fixes to correct the issues. The firm pointed to vulnerabilities in Oracle’s Application Server and Database Server that may allow an intruder to gain […]

In another sign that enterprises are buying business intelligence software at a healthy clip, Cognos reported a record $210 million in revenue for the third quarter, 22 percent greater than the year-over period sum of $172 million. The results helped drive the company’s profit to $34.5 million (37 cents per share), better than the 32 […]

EMC’s bid to acquire Smarts Inc. for $260 million made it the latest systems vendor to add management software that helps customers gain greater visibility into their IT environments. Analysts say the move is in step with an industry trend where systems vendors acquire smaller management software vendors. With these new components, companies like EMC […]

Despite a major slowdown in sales in the latter half of 2004, the chip industry is expected to reap a 23 percent increase on sales of $218 billion, according to early findings from Gartner. Learning from the market crash of 2001, when a surplus of chips sat unsold and unused in boxes, vendors like Intel, […]

EMC joined an end-of-year acquisition spree among software makers when it agreed on Tuesday to acquire network management software maker Smarts Inc. for $260 million in cash. Should the deal succeed, EMC would join IBM , HP , Computer Associates Cisco Systems and others as providers of software systems that diagnose and manage changes in […]

IBM unleashed new network-protecting automated features in its Tivoli management line Tuesday, just days after the mega-merger of security software provider Symantec and storage play Veritas . New autonomic capabilities in Tivoli Security Compliance Manager 5.1 and Tivoli Provisioning Manager 2.1 are designed to reduce the damage viruses, worms and other vulnerabilities cause to networks. […]

The open source Eclipse Foundation secured another ally when Computer Associates International agreed to join and contribute code to the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) project. Members of the TPTP Top-Level project are building a standards-based platform that software developers can use to fashion tools for tracing/profiling, tuning, logging, monitoring, analysis and autonomics […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) moved closer to making XML documents more efficient, issuing the XML Inclusions (XInclude) as a standard for programmers to combine multiple documents into one. XInclude 1.0, which allows programmers to reuse content and save time, further fleshes out work by the W3C XML Core Working Group to improve XML […]

Acquisitions in the storage virtualization sector topped more than $4.2 billion since 2000, as the sector entered its second phase of evolution, according to The 451 Group. While major vendors were reticent to latch on to virtualization because they feared it could cannibalize their products, daring companies made acquisitions on that front. Or they forged […]

A California court has approved a $2.6 million settlement between Diebold and the State of California and Alameda County. The state and county had sued Diebold for fraudulent claims about the security of its electronic voting machines. Diebold, whose subsidiary Diebold Election Systems manufactures the voting machines at the heart of the suit, will pay […]