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The Storage Networking Industry Association this week announced a new set of storage certification exams. The new exams will cover storage networking concepts, standards, solutions and products at a cost of $200 per exam. The exams will also be targeted at specific jobs. SNIA will offer different certificates for storage administrators versus systems administrators. Read […]

Storage Technology Corp. recently ended its attempt to trademark the term “information lifecycle management” (ILM). StorageTeks effort to patent the descriptive term started last September. “We wanted to make a point that we had developed the concept in the first place,” said Chris Drago, StorageTeks public relations manager. “The aim was to bring it to […]

The Blu-ray group this week said it would seek more partners to join the groups 13 founders. The companies, including Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd., said they would establish the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) to set format standards and develop business opportunities. Blu-ray competes with HD-DVD, which won the backing of the DVD […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. this week announced support for non-Sun storage arrays for its Sun Cluster Open Storage Program. Third-party support includes devices from EMC Corp., Network Appliance Inc. and IBM Corp. The company will certify the storage solutions for Sun Cluster in the same way that it validates its own Sun Cluster 3 technology for […]

NEW YORK — Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Web, is none too keen on the ICANN proposal to add ten new top-level domains to the Internet. Berners-Lee spent quite a bit of his Wednesday morning World Wide Web Conference keynote address here attacking the proposed additions. The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers […]

88% of CIOs say their IT departments are very involved in compliance 67% say their companies are investing in financial systems to aid in compliance 59% have no IT executive specifically responsible for compliance 44% say their companies will require their CIOs to certify financial resultsTo download results, click here.Complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act presents […]

Transmeta Corp. said future microprocessors from the company will also support the “NX” security protocol due from Microsoft Corp. in Windows XP Service Pack 2. NX, or “No Execute,” is the shorthand for the Execution Protection feature that Microsoft will include in XP SP2. The technology prevents buffer overflows, one of the most popular forms […]

Analysts are divided over the question of whether Oracles newly lowered bid for PeopleSoft makes sense. Some say there isnt enough potential growth in the business-applications market to sustain Oracle, while others say its the only way for Oracle to get a bigger slice of the pie. Meanwhile, although the states that are against the […]

Adult-film performers have suggested the use of a massive database to track performers exposure to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Such a tool would be similar to a system used by horse breeders to track horses exposures to viruses during breeding and would depend upon unverified data entry. On the upside, it would likely […]

Allocity has designed a storage system for Microsoft Exchange databases. Live!Ex is a self-managing, self-protecting storage subsystem that is controlled from within the Exchange System Manager (ESM). The program automatically creates, monitors, and manages all volumes associated with the Exchange environment. Read the full story at Enterprise Storage Forum

Dell Inc. last week announced a deal with CommVault Systems Inc. to sell CommVaults backup and recovery software with Dells Clariion SAN and PowerVault NAS systems. CommVaults GalaxyExpress software provides basic network backup and restore capabilities for networks with up to 25 clients. CommVault said it disabled some of the higher-end features of its Galaxy […]

Microsofts corporate vice president for the Windows client, Tom Button, told this months WinHEC attendees in Seattle that the company recognized its need to “nail the fundamentals.” Coming in a week when Sasser infections were spreading around the world, Buttons declaration was ironic and his choice of verb unfortunate. His remarks may have triggered graphic […]