Clint Boulton

Every now and then something happens in tech that poses a real head-scratching moment. Such a moment arose when Tibco moved to acquire Spotfire, a provider of visual analytics and business intelligence software. What would an integration software vendor — Tibco (Quote) — want with a provider of software that helps business managers make more important […]

Less than a month after pushing back the delivery date for its Windows Server virtualization technology, Microsoft (Quote) Thursday said that key features of the software will not be delivered in the second half of the year. Viridian, a virtualization hypervisor (define), was supposed to arrive in the first half of the 2007 but was pushed […]

EMC (Quote) today debuted Innovation Network, a global community comprised of EMC research and university research partners determined to solve challenges posed by the current information explosion. IDC projects that info explosion, which includes e-mail, images and other digital documents, will rack up 988 billion gigabytes in 2010. Map that explosion in digital information against the […]

“Let there be light,” may not be the freshest phrase around to instill a sense of awe and majesty into a product, but it’s the marketing mantra Business Objects (Quote) is using to compete in the business intelligence market going forward. The BI market leader announced the slogan along with new software and upgrades today in […]

Occasionally, a startup is born to try and challenge or ride the coattails of IBM (Quote), Sun Microsystems (Quote) and HP (Quote) in the multi-billion-dollar market for computer servers. 3Leaf Systems emerged from stealth mode today to announce its candidacy in the server market. The Santa Clara, Calif., startup unveiled the 3Leaf Systems V-8000 Virtual I/O Server, […]

Two vendors in the business process management suite space are slugging it out this week with new products that help companies integrate and arrange business applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Progress Software (Quote) unveiled its latest enterprise service bus (define) software and a brand new BPEL (define)&nsp;BSP server to choreograph services in the ESB. Rival Ultimus […]

The pulse of the database software market is as strong as it’s ever been. Oracle (Quote) held 44 percent of the relational database management systems (RDBMS) market, which grew 14.3 percent from 2005 to 2006 to total $16.4 billion, according to research results from IDC. While Oracle grew 14.7 percent from 2005 to reach $7.3 billion […]

Anyone who thinks corporate-compliance and record-retention regulations aren’t wagging the dogs needs a reality check. In many cases, rules such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley are driving new standards and technologies for data encryption and archiving. IBM today introduced tape storage drives based on the recently passed Linear Tape Open (LTO) Generation 4 standard, incorporating tape-encryption […]

Several vendors are brushing up on their virtualization software chops this week. BladeLogic, which makes software to automate tedious datacenter tasks, released BladeLogic Virtualization Manager as a new add-on module for the BladeLogic Operations Manager suite. The software lets IT administrators deploy, delete, manage, patch and audit virtual and physical servers. Virtualization technologies create some […]

HP (Quote) this week will formally take the plunge into the data-warehousing market with a super server designed to help large enterprises run business intelligence applications, internetnews.com has learned. A source familiar with the company’s plans said HP will launch the Neoview platform Tuesday. The system, a kind of custom Integrity computer server, will run anywhere […]