Clint Boulton

HP today trotted out new storage hardware and software to address multiple storage protocols and help alleviate some of the complexity and shave some dollars off of acquisition costs. All in the name of winning new customers and keeping current ones happy. Consolidating corporate data onto fewer servers and storage arrays has been a recurring […]

UPDATED: Michael Dell is taking back his troubled company. Dell’s (Quote) founder and chairman took back the CEO role yesterday, with Kevin Rollins resigning after a tumultuous period in which the company posted lackluster sales and failed to file earnings for consecutive quarters. The computing systems maker also said in a statement that it expects its […]

Mention Web application security to an IT administrator at most companies and you may elicit a grimace. The growing tangle of dynamic Web 2.0 applications make it almost impossible for traditional bug scanners to catch most Web vulnerabilities. Recognizing this architectural challenge, SPI Dynamics created Phoenix, a new Web application security architecture to analyze Web […]

One of Oracle’s biggest challenges these days is integrating the new products from its numerous acquisitions with its existing software. Oracle (Quote) just finished one such undertaking, incorporating the analytics software it acquired in the Siebel Systems purchase as the base for its business intelligence software. Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition 10g Release 3 features […]

Permabit, which once had lofty hopes of being a standalone storage systems vendor to be reckoned with, has toned down its approach. Finding it tough to crack into the daunting market shares of incumbents EMC (Quote), IBM (Quote), and HP (Quote), Permabit has scaled back, shedding its hardware offering to sell software that houses, guards […]

With system management topping many IT departments’ priority lists these days, HP (Quote) today added to its arsenal of server and storage management software. The systems vendor unveiled HP Insight Control Environment, a management software suite targeted at its ProLiant ML pedestal and DL rack-mount servers, which run popular flavors of Windows, Linux and Novell operating […]

Cisco Systems (Quote) started off its new year with a bang by bidding to acquire IronPort for $830 million, a premium more than eight times the company’s annual revenue run rate. Cisco will pay the premium because IronPort, the leading standalone provider in the e-mail messaging appliance market, was prepared to go public. IronPort’s machines preserve […]

So you’re a CIO of a large trading firm. Your head IT administrator comes to you and tells you that he doesn’t have the staff to manage alerts, security warnings and patches. Trading firms and telecommunications companies process millions of transactions on computing systems that execute thousands of different tasks. And when problems arise, or […]

Application server software platforms (ASSP) may be a highly commoditized business, but IBM, Oracle and BEA Systems can still turn a quick buck in the space, thanks to accelerating adoption of virtualization and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Worldwide sales for application server software grew nearly 6 percent in 2005 to $4.5 billion, according to new research […]

For each security software company that gets snapped up, another one seems to take its place. Presence Technology emerged from stealth mode this week with new software to help companies maintain accurate user and content identity data between distributed systems. The Salt Lake City startup’s PresenceID software automatically provisions password management, single sign-on security and […]