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Puppet gets a more expressive configuration language
With an update to its namesake configuration tool, Puppet Labs has introduced a programming language designed to give administrators more flexibility in scripting their deployment routines.
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BMC set to go private in $6.9 billion deal
BMC has agreed to be acquired by a private investment consortium headed by Bain Capital and Golden Capital, in a deal worth about US$6.9 billion.
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IBM launches 'Internet of things' appliance
Preparing its customers to join the emerging 'Internet of things', IBM has released a new appliance built to manage and route a voluminous amount of machine-to-machine small data messages
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Dell corrals acquired products for BYOD market
Dell has pulled together products it gained from its recent acquisitions into a series of BYOD offerings, though it faces the challenge of selling them at a time when the company's ownership hangs in the balance.
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BP rolls out CA Clarity globally after refinery explosion
Oil giant BP has extended the roll out of its CA Clarity version 12.0 software after it used the tool for project and portfolio management after the devastating explosion of a refinery in Texas City in 20005, which killed 15 workers.
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CA CTO: We will raise costs of running old software to facilitate SaaS drive
CA Technologies? CTO John Michelsen has confirmed that the company will raise the costs of running legacy software in a bid to facilitate its current drive to get customers off of old releases and on to software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms.
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CA Technologies buys Layer 7 for API insights
CA Technologies is acquiring Layer 7 Technologies, a purveyor of tools for managing and securing application programming interfaces (APIs).
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New CA CEO looks to transform the company to SaaS provider
CA Technologies? recently appointed CEO, Michael Gregoire, has vowed to make the company an innovator in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market and has asked his customers to upgrade to the latest releases in order to make the transition as smooth as possible.
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IT supply-chain security standard aims to prevent counterfeits, tampering
The danger of counterfeit and tampered IT products is well known, and to fight it, the Open Group has published a technical security standard aimed at supply-chain safety. It's anticipated that by year-end there will also be an official process under way for accreditation so technology suppliers can prove adherence to the standard, according to some involved, which include IBM and Cisco.
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Virtual Instruments: Avoiding "The Abyss", trouncing Brocade and not hiding behind SDN
Virtual Instruments, the nearly 5-year-old infrastructure performance management software and hardware maker, is one of those companies that might never become a household name no matter how successful it becomes. In fact, many at first mistake the company for being in the music business.
