Clint Boulton

EMC (Quote)  Tuesday said third-quarter revenues dropped a third from a year ago and vowed to cut roughly 4 percent of its workforce to make room for its 21 acquisitions of the last three years. EMC, which has spent the last few years broadening its portfolio to include software for virtualization, security and content management, […]

IBM (Quote)  Monday unveiled a new piece of software designed to help customers integrate applications. The all-in-one Information Server that will come with the company’s WebSphere application server and DB2 database. Tom Inman, vice president of information management at IBM, announced the software at the company’s first Information on Demand Global Conference in Anaheim today. […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — A proliferation of smaller, mobile computers and the demand for more valuable services on handheld devices will drive innovation in the chipmaking market, said Intel CEO Paul Otellini at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo here. The prospect of mobile technologies pervaded a question-and-answer session between Gartner analysts Ken Dulaney and Steve Kleynhans […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Now that Microsoft (Quote) has acquired a number of security vendors and put them under an umbrella called ForeFront, the temptation is to think the largest software vendor in the world is looking to conquer one of the most crucial parts of the broad software market. With that multi-billion-dollar bank account, […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — There’s a popular notion swirling around the high-tech sector that Microsoft’s dominant position in the industry and software bugs have customers scurrying for the cover of Linux. This may be more of a myth than a notion, Gartner analyst John Enck said during a session comparing the two operating systems […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Traditional software models aren’t going away, but major companies will have to learn to adapt more flexible, Internet-based application distribution models to both compete and meet evolving customer demands. That was one of many nuggets Microsoft (Quote) CEO Steve Ballmer dished out to a packed audience during a keynote session at […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Technologies used to power popular consumer-oriented applications will eventually saturate the corporate market. This is leading to the “consumerization” of the enterprise market, said Gartner analysts today at the formal opening of the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2006 here. Technologies such as AJAX (define), REST (define) and RSS  form the technical underpinnings […]

Software as a service (SaaS) will constitute 25 percent of new business software delivered by 2011, analysts from research firm Gartner said in a new report. The analysts will present the report at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., next week. The event will include keynote speeches from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Cisco Systems CEO […]

Looking to assuage customer concerns for managing the glut of unstructured data to comply with government regulations, Microsoft (Quote, Chart) and EMC (Quote, Chart) have announced new services to make it easier for customers to corral their enterprise information. EMC Documentum Content Services for SharePoint and EMC Documentum Archive Services for SharePoint are designed to help customers […]

Software virtualization, which allows customers to run multiple versions of software on a single computer to save space and cut costs, is getting a big dust-up this week. VMware, Cassatt and Surgient announced new products or partnerships to fortify their positions in this multi-billion-dollar market. VMware said today it has combined two core virtualization tools […]