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Hitachi Data Systems will announce upgrades to its midrange Thunder storage arrays the week of Oct. 6, say sources. Code-named Thor L, the new 9580V series has speed improvements and a switch-based internal architecture, an industry reseller said. It can hold approximately 450 drives and works with HDS Sentinel management software, said sources. The 9580V […]

Intellectual Property According to PricewaterhouseCoopers Product Piracy Survey 2003, 19 percent of global companies were victims of product piracy in the last two years, with nearly 61 percent of these companies reporting repeated incidence of these crimes. Of these cases of detected crime, 92 percent were committed external to the organization, and 15 percent of […]

Jonathan Schwartz, the executive vice president of software at Sun Microsystems Inc., has been swamped with requests for him to clarify and expand some of the comments he made in a recent interview with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli. Here are his expanded thoughts about the companys Linux strategy, its Solaris operating system, its support […]

The second anniversary of the devastating attacks at the World Trade Center has come and gone, but the psychological and economic effects on downtown New York and beyond still linger. In technology circles, the terms “disaster recovery” and “business continuity” are thrown around as buzz-words. For those who experienced the attacks and the aftermath, moving […]

Although it would be the last to admit it, Microsoft needs help. The company is reeling from the continuing barrage of viruses and worms targeted at Windows and its other applications. It is rushing to deliver more patches, fixes and security tools and services. But it cannot keep up with growing user discontent. So, what […]

As a foil to buying more of todays complex and expensive storage, enterprise users are better off if they more carefully use their current products, Deepfile Corp. officials say. Such is the business case for the Deepfile Auditor appliance, launched earlier this year, and Deepfile Enforcer, to launch next week, CEO Jeff Erramouspe said. “Its […]

Homeland Security Five federal agencies, in collaboration with the Center for Internet Security and Oracle Corp., will announce Tuesday a broad federal procurement initiative to improve software security. Under the initiative, software vendors will have to ensure that their software meets specific safe configuration requirements and that any fixes they provide to patch vulnerabilities are […]

Hardware Infineon Samples 4Gbps Fibre Channel Optics Bidding for early status in the nascent market for 4Gbps Fibre Channel optics, Infineon Technologies AG last week announced that it is sampling transceivers based on 850nm lasers and demonstrating a 1310nm product at ECOC 2003. Component vendors are only now beginning to roll out products specifically targeted […]

Storage administrators wanting virtualization now have another choice among the remaining independent vendors—StoreAge Networking Technologies Ltd.—as larger firms continue to stall in delivering the technology. StoreAge last week announced an any-to-any IP mirroring option called MultiMirror for its Storage Virtualization Manager 4.2, said company President Mark Spowart, in Irvine, Calif. Virtualization offers the means to […]

IBMs DB2 for Z/OS and Oracles Oracle9i databases took the top spots in Gartners recent MarketScope research note. Gartner evaluated six databases from four vendors on the criteria of their financial viability and market commitment, alliances and ISV support, good references, product and market innovation, usability and affordability, portability and suitability, performance and reliability, and […]

Palm has introduced a foldable wireless keyboard that links to any Palm device via an infrared connection. Available next month, the keyboard will cost $69.95. The company also introduced new styluses. For customers whose handhelds dont have a backlight, there is the Zire Lighted Stylus Pen Pack, which comes with one standard stylus and one […]