Stories about: DataMirror

IBM's Information on Demand kicked off last week with a keynote address from general manager of information management software Ambuj Goyal that unveiled a handful of new products that continues the company's aggressive push into the data management sphere.

IBM has been on an acquisition spree, having recently snapped up DataMirror, a data management vendor in Markam, Ontario; Princeton Softech, a data archiving company in Princeton, New Jersey; and Watchfire, a Web application security provider in Waltham, Massachusetts. Computerworld US' Thomas Hoffman talked with Deborah Magid, director of software strategy at IBM's Venture Capital Group in Menlo Park, California, about the company's strategy.

IBM could establish a strong presence in the market for embedded operating systems with the acquisition of financially ailing Wind River Systems, a deal that is reportedly in the works.

IBM Friday announced that it has acquired Princeton Softech, a maker of data archiving, classification and discovery products, to bolster its own data management offerings. Financial terms weren't disclosed.

IBM is looking to add real-time capabilities to its data integration software by buying Canadian firm DataMirror for about C$170 million (AUD$186 million).

In a move set to increase its Australian presence, e-business technology vendor DataMirror Corporation has signed high-end integrator Avnet Enterprise Solutions as a value-added reseller (VAR) of the Transformation Server and High Availability product suite.

If you have to cram yourself into a tiny prop plane for a business trip to a technology conference, there are a lot worse places to go than Palm Springs, California. In March, with temperatures around 90 degrees, I attended the Open Systems Advisor's Crossroads conference, touted as "the intersection of business and technology." It's an oasis in the desert for IT executives to uncover new products and technologies and to meet with their peers (playing golf in a California paradise is just a bonus).