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Nanochip Inc. recently said it secured $20 million in second-round funding that will be used to take its technology to the product stage. The company develops a form of “micro-electrical mechanical system” (MEMS) rewritable storage. The CMOS-compatible storage can be used in memory cards and other devices for digital still and video cameras, MP3 players, […]

Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc. recently unveiled a new line of 15,000-RPM drives with either Ultra320 SCSI and Fibre Channel interfaces, dubbed “MAU,”. The high-capacity point for the companys high performance line will top out at 147GB, up from 73GB. In addition, the company announced a 300GB drive with a spindle speed of 10,000 […]

Veritas Software Corp. has been strengthening its utility computing offerings through the acquisitions in the last several months of three software developers: Ejasent Inc., Precise Software Solutions Ltd. and Jareva Technologies. Veritas CEO Gary Bloom believes his company, with its established leadership in storage management and independence from any particular hardware platform, is well-positioned to […]

Getting the best return on your technology project means understanding when to spend—and when to save—money. This chart summarizes the rates earned by managing the savings and spending by three different approaches to project management. In all three cases, the undiscounted savings and spending are the same.

Early next month, Microsoft is set to share its vision for its next-generation Office, Windows, database and other products with hundreds of its Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). MVPs are the independent technology buffs who are recognized experts in one or more Microsoft technologies. They complement Microsoft executives, product managers and developers in tasks ranging from […]

Cigital chief executive officer Jeffery Payne likes to deliver good news to his customers first, when possible: that their systems are 100% secure. But, sometimes, he has to deliver bad news as well. That the software is totally unreliable. “People are worried about security, but in the end the problems with software are the age-old […]

The later Longhorn gets, the more Microsoft is struggling with how to deliver to customers new features that are ready to go. On the heels of acknowledging last week that Microsoft might release an interim version of the Windows client before Longhorn, Redmond officials said the company will likely release an interim update on the […]

Last week, JBoss, Inc. received $10 million in venture funding in a group led by Matrix Partners. But what does JBoss founder Marc Fleury want to do with all that money? Is there any chance that VC investment can water down the open source movement? In an interview with Open Enterprise Trends and excerpted here […]

The NetBSD Project announced Monday that release 1.6.2 of the NetBSD operating system is now available, with binary distributions for 40 architectures. We interviewed Luke Mewburn of the NetBSD Core Group and asked him about the NetBSD project in general, the long awaiting release 2.0, and a lot of technical and organizational issues. For the […]

SANRAD Inc. on Wednesday released StoragePro Services 2.0 for the companys V-Switch line of IP storage-area network product. The new version offers a range of data duplication and reliability features including volume snapshots, mirroring, and support for RADIUS authentication for secure iSCSI connection. The StoragePro GUI management software can handle a cluster or multiple clusters […]

Fortinet Inc. has unveiled two wireless and wired firewall systems designed to meet realtime security needs of small and midsize businesses. The firewalls–FortiWiFi-60 and FortiGate-50A –include a full suite of network-level security functions. The FortiWiFi-60 unit features an integrated 802.11b and 802.11g WLAN access point and allows administrators to apply antivirus, firewall, VPN and intrusion-detection […]

Three U.S. senators are tackling the growing problem of spyware. The “SPYBLOCK” Act, which was introduced late last week, would make it illegal to use the Internet to install software on peoples computers without their consent, and require companies that offer software downloads to provide more disclosure about what the programs do and what information […]