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Zantaz Inc. this week acquired on-site e-mail archiving company Educom TS Inc. for an undisclosed amount. The combined company will provide end-to-end e-communications management solutions for compliance, electronic discovery, and e-mail storage management, Zantaz said. Educom provides message archiving and management solutions for Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, and other environments. Read the full story at […]

Network Appliance Inc., a k a NetApp, recently said that its fiscal third-quarter profit more than doubled as companies spent more on technology used to manage data. The company reported net income for the third quarter ended Jan. 30 of $40.2 million, or 11 cents per share, up from $19.7 million, or 6 cents per […]

Sandial Systems Inc. this week released its first storage-switch product and clarified its strategy. Sandials Shadow 14000 Storage Backbone Switch uses time-division multiplexing to regulate the actual bandwidth assigned to specific applications in a Fibre Channel network. A menu in the management software provides a way for mangers to schedule both the minimum and maximum […]

Red Hat Professional Workstationwas designed to allow former users of the companys consumer product line to continue to use a supported platform without having to migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Unfortunately, it fails to live up to its predecessors in key areas, and is considerably more expensive in some usage scenarios. Home users should […]

Microsoft began taking orders this week for its promised Security Update CD. The free CD includes all critical security fixes issued by Microsoft since October 2003 for Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows 98 Second Edition (SE). There also is some free antivirus and firewall trial software on the CD, as […]

By mid-year, Microsoft plans to make its XML programming language—currently code-named “Xen,” and soon to be renamed “C Omega”—available to researchers and academics. At the same time, Microsofts Research division is making the new language available to product teams inside the company for possible use or inclusion in forthcoming products. Thats according to Wolfram Schulte, […]

/zimages/6/66083.jpg This weeks DEMO 2004 conference in Scottsdale, Arizona showcased 67 new products, services and innovations coming to the enterprise technology world in the next 12 to 24 months. The fourteenth annual DEMO conference featured new desktop computing products, security innovations, blogging tools and emerging technologies in collaborative enterprise markets including presentations from 12 international […]

According to Jacqueline Emigh of LinuxPlanet, Sun is rolling out plans to make all its development tools available on Linux by the end of 2004, including environments for both Java and C/C++ developers. Suns Java Studio Standard tools are already available for Linux. Jeff Anders, group marketing manager, said that Sun will also produce a […]

Tips used for Top Tips come from the ExtremeTech forum and are written by our community. Question from design721 “I just reinstalled W2K and it all seems to be working just dandy, but I get about 100 of these pop ups per day saying WARNING: This message confirms your computer is vulnerable to attacks and […]

Trend Micro Inc. has unveiled a new device that blocks internal network attacks. Network VirusWall 1200 is an outbreak prevention appliance that scans, detects and blocks threats from inside the corporate network, not just in the application layer. The companys new Vulnerability Assessment service allows administrators to isolate infected or vulnerable devices from the rest […]

Reps. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Howard Berman (D-Calif.) introduced new legislation in Congress that would add as much as seven years to prison sentences handed out to anyone committing fraud through a Web site registered under a false name or contact in formation. The “Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act” would also permit copyright owners to […]

Mellanox Technologies Inc. said it plans to boost the next-generation PCI Express technology with InfiniBand. The companys third-generation InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA), the InfiniHost III Ex, can boost bandwidth by a factor of three over the legacy PCI-X technology, with a 20 percent reduction in latency, the company said. Mellanox has been working closely […]