Jeff Burt

“The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days–perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not be able to write you again, I feel impelled to write lines that may fall under your eye when I shall be no more.” Those were the first sentences written by Sullivan Ballou, a major in the […]

The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks crystallized for many enterprises the need to be able to get operating systems up and running quickly following disasters or technical failures. Veritas Software Corp. last week expanded its reach in that area when it bought The Kernel Group Inc., a small company that developed software that fully automates server […]

Veritas Software Corp. is looking to add to its disaster recovery product line by acquiring The Kernel Group Inc., a small company that makes technology that fully automates system recovery of Windows and all major Unix platforms. Veritas officials on Tuesday declined to release financial details of the deal, but one executive said Veritas will […]

N180, N160 platforms For small and midsize businesses, being able to order what you need is important. Compaq Computer Corp. last month began offering configuration capabilities in its Evo Notebook N180 and N160 platforms. Variety of setups Users can specify a number of the notebooks attributes, including panel size and resolution, optical drives—including DVD/CD-RW and […]

Software made available last month from startup InterSAN Inc. aims to tackle storage management where larger vendors have fumbled. The product, Pathline, has such features as automated provisioning, service-level measurement and policy-based security for storage area networks. In addition, Pathline helps with device discovery and monitoring, said officials with the Scotts Valley, Calif., company. InterSAN […]

Iconverse.com Inc. last month started shipping a mobile application platform that enables users to work wirelessly even when they are intermittently disconnected. The Adaptix software gathers data online and caches and stores it for later use offline, said officials at the Waltham, Mass., company. Adaptix supports syncing, online message queueing, network detection and an IP-based […]

Are you looking for an easier, low-cost way to give your companys customers self-service, around-the-clock access to information via the telephone? General Magic Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., last month began shipping a suite of voice infrastructure software components for Java developers to add voice applications by leveraging common language and programming tools. MagicTalk Enterprise Platform […]

An important issue for financial institutions—actually, for any business—is determining a return on investment. Financial Fusion Inc. this month released new versions of its banking software products, Version 4.5 of Consumer e-Finance Suite and Version 2.5 of the Business e-Finance Suite, both of which support alerts, ROI tools and account registers. Both releases from the […]

Working to get small and midsize businesses connected to private exchanges, integration network provider Viacore Inc. announced in December the availability of its QuickConnect Utility Service. QuickConnect gives trading partners a bundled solution—business-to-business software, on-site installation, back-end systems integration, interoperability testing and certification—to establish system-to-system integration into private exchanges. Viacore officials in Irvine, Calif., said […]

Open architecture J2EE continues to grow in popularity, and ProActivity Inc., which makes business process analysis software, doesnt plan to be left behind. The Newton, Mass., company in December announced an upgrade to its namesake platform, ProActivity Version 4.0, that features an open component-based architecture based on the Java 2 Enterprise Edition specification. The upgrade […]

To give enterprises a way to ensure quick Internet content delivery, F5 Networks Inc. is updating its caching product to include a scalable management system for large distributed networks of caches. The latest version of the Seattle companys Edge-FX Cache comes with fully integrated options for content distribution, distributed edge management and SSL (Secure Sockets […]

Enterprises are finding that its becoming increasingly complex and expensive to store the mountains of data piling up daily. TeraCloud Corp. in December announced a management platform designed to make storage easier and cheaper. The SpaceNet software platform not only manages an enterprises current storage use but also projects future storage needs, thus enabling companies […]