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Cognos and the State of Ohio have entered into a multimillion dollar, strategic partnership to implement Cognos EBI Series on a statewide basis. Ohio agencies are looking to use the BI tool to help government employees identify trends and data relationships and to better manage performance. Read the full story at CanadaIT.com.

Veritas CEO Gary Bloom informally raised the companys guidance this week, saying he is “reasonably confident” that fourth-quarter revenue will top the $500 million mark for the first time in Veritas history. The companys formal guidance projects revenue of $480 million to $490 million, while analysts polled by Thomson First Call expect revenue of $489.7 […]

Nexsan Technologies Inc. is joining with SANRAD Inc. to bring to market turnkey, automated IP SAN systems. Nexsan will integrate its InfiniSAN line of storage systems to SANRADs iSCSI V-Switch iSCSI storage networking and management hardware. The “Nexsan certified” joint hardware offerings will soon be available via resellers. Read the full story at Enterprise IT […]

Flash memory-based data storage, long the domain of a handful of suppliers, is drawing a crowd of new entrants that could see shortages abate by the middle of next year. The rush of newcomers is being fueled by the booming market for NAND, and prospects that the constantly increasing storage needs of digital still cameras, […]

The Federal Communications Commission Wednesday proposed allowing the use of software-defined radios. The technology allows for a greater spectrum sharing by enabling devices to find and use available spectrum in different frequencies, times or spaces, the FCC said. Read the full story at RCR Wireless News

A study from In-Stat/MDR published this week counted 40,000 wireless hotspots around the world in 2003. But the number of users was not impressive, said Amy Cravens, the studys author. In a survey of business users, more than half of the users had used a public wired or wireless network, but the majority had done […]

D-Link has unveiled a new printer that allows hotspot providers to print receipts at the point of purchase. The D-Link Airspot Ticket Printer can assign users with access times from five minutes up to one week. The printer connects to the serial port on a D-Link Airspot Gateway. Read the full story at CRN

The next generation of cell phone networks could operate at 100Mbps. Mikko Uusitalo, chairman of the Wireless World Research Forum, is working to unite service providers, manufactures and governments behind fourth-generation or 4G wireless technology. Uusitalo wants to have basic 4G blueprints worked out by 2007, when his group is scheduled to present a plan […]

Microsoft is reiterating that it is delaying the start of its Software Update Services (SUS) 2.0 beta program, according to the folks at the ieXBeta site. SUS is yet another of Microsofts automatic patch-update sites, but one specifically aimed at mid-sized companies. The 2.0 release is supposed to patch a host of Microsoft products, not […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday released pricing and packaging details for its BizTalk Server 2004 integration server. But the company is remaining mum on when the product will launch. Earlier this year, Microsoft execs said they were planning on shipping BizTalk Server 2004, code-named “Voyager,” by the end of calendar 2003. But with the year winding […]

Cisco CEO John Chambers last week outlined his companys goals, chief among them to exploit voice over IP and highlighted its biggest challenges, notably gaining success in the storage market. Other important directions stated by Chambers and other executives at Ciscos annual analysts meeting included moving key products off their current Windows-based platforms and onto […]

The Linux albatross just wouldnt sell. And the Linux platypus, well, whod buy anything from him? Ah, but the Linux penguin, theres a bird that could really drive an industry. “The little guy hasnt been very active in coding the actual kernel, but he sure as hell has made for a very recognizable mascot,” says […]