Clint Boulton

What do you do when you’re the leader in the blade server market? Try extending that lead by building specialized blades for various interests and markets. Big Blue has done that, building a blade server that pairs the IBM BladeCenter HS21 blade servers running Red Hat Linux with the company’s Information Server data-integration software. Infor […]

There are those who think of Apple’s Macintosh computers as cute little PCs with a bent on graphic design. In past years, those pigeon-holers would have been right. But VMware is proving that the Mac can handle more sophisticated workloads and (are you sitting down?) even run Windows applications. The company on Monday will roll […]

Symantec (Quote) has upgraded its Veritas CommandCentral 5.0 storage resource management (SRM) portfolio, making it the second pillar to the Storage United strategy the company unveiled in June. SRM Software, which IDC consistently rates as one of the fastest growing storage market segments, is designed to help IT customers get a better handle on how […]

EMC (Quote) brushed the dust off its Documentum software, issuing the company’s first major upgrade of the enterprise content management (ECM) platform in more than two years. EMC Documentum 6 has been crafted to better handle Web services, whereas the March 2005 release of Documentum 5.3 was rewritten significantly to share the same code base, […]

In a deal that symbolizes the incorporation of new Web-based services on mobile phones, Sprint (Quote) said Thursday that it is working with Google (Quote) to bring WiMAX mobile Internet customers search, collaboration and social-networking tools through a new mobile portal. Specifically, Sprint’s network bandwidth, location detection and presence capabilities will be paired with Google’s […]

It takes a lot of moxie to jump into the server management side of the business ruled by such IT giants as IBM (Quote), HP (Quote) and others. But that’s exactly what networking king Cisco Systems (Quote)  plans to do, armed with a new product and new ideas. At the company’s Networkers conference in Anaheim, Calif., […]

UPDATED: Looking to corral the market for automating tedious but vital datacenter tasks, HP (Quote) today agreed to buy Opsware (Quote) for $1.6 billion in cash, a 38 percent premium over Opsware’s Friday closing price of $10.28 a share. In a separate deal, HP also bid to acquire thin-client computing software maker Neoware (Quote) for $214 million, […]

Some companies are using virtualization to create efficiencies in their datacenters by running multiple operating systems on fewer machines. But how do they know it works? Until now there hasn’t been a proper gauge to check a virtual machine’s speed or performance. But VMware, which fancies itself as the lead driver in virtualization technologies, has […]

So much emphasis has been placed on IT process automation in the past year that if there were more startups, they’d be snatched up like buttery sweet hot cakes. Opsware got the ball rolling when it purchased RealOps rival iConclude in March for $54 million. RealOps today became the second IT process automation (also called […]

Sometimes the stars align for two companies to be more than just partners. Oracle (Quote) Wednesday agreed to buy multi-factor authentication and fraud detection software maker Bharosa for an undisclosed sum. While most startups in the security software space pick one area to specialize in, Bharosa (meaning “trust” in Hindi) is unique because it offers two […]