Clint Boulton

Compellent today introduced a new piece of software, Server Instant Replay, that automatically boots servers from the company’s Storage Center storage area network (SAN) system, saving customers time and money. Typically, servers are manually configured and booted by IT administrators going from rack to rack to load operating systems and applications. After a server is […]

Analysis: Cisco Systems’ $3.2 billion bid for WebEx is another gauntlet thrown at the feet of Microsoft, which analysts say has been moving in on Cisco’s communications turf. WebEx (Quote) is the leading purveyor of Web conferencing, allowing users to conduct real-time meetings over the Internet. WebEx also offers, thanks to its purchase of Intranets.com, software […]

After Oracle made its $3.3 billion offer for Hyperion last week, I wondered just how disruptive the news would be to the business intelligence sector. Taking out one of the market leaders in a multi-billion-dollar vertical is nothing to sneeze at. Or is it? I spoke to Keith Gile, who Business Objects hired last year […]

Oracle (Quote) today agreed to buy Hyperion Solutions Corporation for $52 a share in cash a $3.3 billion deal that will make Oracle a leader in the lucrative business intelligence (BI) software space. The deal, a 21 percent premium over Wednesday’s closing price of Hyperion’s shares of $42.84, will thrust Oracle deeper into competition with long-time […]

Tape storage these days gets a bad rap for unreliability and manageability even though many storage experts will tell you it isn’t going away because it complements disk storage. But if companies keep lowering the cost of disk storage, who knows what fate will befall tape? HP (Quote) threw another question mark behind tape storage Monday, […]

As one of the leading vendors of software for anything from high level to fine-grained data management, Oracle is adding information lifecycle management (ILM) tools to its mix. The software giant today began offering Oracle ILM Assistant, a free tool to help customers manage data from the time it is created in a database or […]

EMC (Quote)and Dell (Quote) are introducing the CX3-10 UltraScale FC/iSCSI system today, a storage area network (SAN) (define) array that marks a new entry point with EMC’s Clariion machines for the medium-sized customer. Designed to sock away data in businesses with anywhere from 250 to 2,500 employees, the CX3-10 is geared to handle the glut of data […]

IBM (Quote) is taking encryption to the midrange storage market today, unveiling its System Storage TS3400 Tape Library to protect data as it comes into the box. The TS3400, a two-drive library that can fit as many as 18 cartridges and store up to 37.8 terabytes (define) of data, includes security technologies found in the IBM TS1120 […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of attendees headed for the exit from the keynote hall here at the RSA Conference 2007 upon learning Oracle (Quote) CEO Larry Ellison was a last-minute scratch due to the flu. The exodus did nothing to lessen the disappointment, which wrapped the room like a wet blanket. Ellison’s absence was notable because […]

SAN FRANCISCO –- UPDATED: Five years after helping to launch Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing initiative, Bill Gates put some grace notes on how far and wide the extensive effort helped improve the company’s product lines. “It was just last week that we released Vista and that’s a big milestone for us in terms of security because […]