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A coalition of drug companies, government agencies, and industry groups is working toward an electronic signature standard. The most recently completed version includes technical specifications, policies, and a legal infrastructure. A pilot version will be released soon in Europe. Drug companies use electronic signatures when submitting documents to government regulators and to business partners. A […]

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The worldwide storage software market grew 23.3 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2004, International Data Corp. said last week. The back-up and archive software market continued to represent the biggest market segment, growing 22.0 percent year-over-year, IDC reports. The storage resource management market posted the largest gain at 32.3 percent year-over-year growth. Read […]

MaXXan Systems Inc. last week announced its second-generation intelligent SAN platform, which scales from 16 to 256 ports in a single chassis and up to 512 ports in a dual-chassis configuration. The MXV500 removes the need to deploy storage applications into host servers, independent appliances or array controllers, the company said. The platform uses Intel […]

Network Appliance Inc. is close to buying three of Ciscos six unoccupied buildings in North Carolinas Research Triangle Park. Then, NetApp is expected initially to add 300 jobs to its current count of 150 in RTP. The buildings could eventually accommodate more than 1,000 workers. Read the full story at MSNBC

Deepfile Corp. last week unveiled a file management application that allows organizations to distribute the responsibility for file policies to the files end users and away from IT departments. Deepfile Sentinel lets the IT department audit the process and monitor compliance. The application will be available to beta users later this month, with general availability […]

When will MSN bite the bullet and come up to par with its Hotmail competitors, particularly in the area of free e-mail storage? For now, MSN is still offering the same 2MB of free e-mail storage—compared to the 1GB offered by Googles newly minted Gmail and the 100MB now offered by Yahoo Mail. (Microsoft currently […]

The Adaptive Resource switch technology pools and virtualizes heterogeneous storage to offer a consolidated view of files and storage resources, eliminating “islands of storage,” said Brendon Howe, VP for marketing and business development at Acopia. Unstructured data–data that is outside of a relational database management system–represents 80 percent of an enterprises data, Howe said. Read […]

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management on Thursday outlined a process for agencies to follow to ensure employees, contractors and others who access federal systems are adequately trained in IT security. The plan should identify employees with significant cybersecurity responsibilities and provide role-specific training as detailed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology guidance. […]

Nokia will open enterprise networks to remote access on wireless devices with the release of Secure Access System 2.0 on June 28. The new software uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and runs on Nokias IP security platform. Once logged in, users can then access corporate Intranets. Read the full story at Wireless NewsFactor

Checking-account theft is the fastest-growing financial consumer fraud in the country, according to a survey from Gartner Inc. Based on a poll of 5,000 online U.S. adults, the study shows that some 1.98 million consumers have been victimized by checking-account fraud, resulting in $2.4 billion in losses. Gartner said about 57 million U.S. Internet users […]

A group of underground virus writers recently sent a “proof of concept” worm that propagates via mobile phones to the antivirus companies Kapersky Lab of Russia and Symantec Corp. The virus attempts to jump from phone to phone by using the handsets Bluetooth connection. The infected file must be accepted by the mobile phone user […]