eWEEK EDITORS

Storage switch maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc. continued its wild earnings ride yesterday, announcing a $1.9 million profit on $133.5 million in revenue for its third quarter. The figures are better than the second quarters $146 million loss on $130.9 million in revenue, but still far short from 2002s third-quarter profit of $18.3 million on […]

Your sandwiches are fresh. Your data is not. Sure, your bakery-cafe chain has grown quickly, driven by the decidedly hip menu at your now 500 restaurants. Total revenue has leapfrogged to $800 million, and plans for 20 new restaurants should keep that number headed north. But your supply chain keeps you up at night. Inventory […]

Enterprise Storage NetApp Sets Up Qualification Program for iSCSI Adapters Network Appliance Inc. this week announced its third-party program for iSCSI adapter vendors to qualify as NetApp-supported solutions. The program uses an independent third-party company, Finisar, to supervise qualification testing carried out at Finisars Medusa Labs facility in Austin, Texas. iSCSI adapters that complete the […]

M-Systems has added the ability to boot a PC from its DiskOnKey flash drives, allowing the device to more easily replace a floppy drive. The bootability feature is enabled through the system BIOS, which can sense if the key is connected to a Universal Serial Bus port. M-Systems said it licensed the open-source FreeDOS operating […]

AT&T Wireless on Wednesday started selling the BlackBerry 7210 Wireless Handheld, a color-screen device from Research and Motion Inc. that supports both voice and data capabilities. Is the BlackBerry doomed? Click here to find out what eWEEK columnist Jim Louderback has to say about this. With a screen that can display 65,000 colors, the device […]

To borrow the old adage about the three types of lies, there is hype, damned hype and vision. Standing before a wall of 100 new products, Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina heralded an end to the era of complexity and foretold a networked home that has digital devices crammed into every crevice. HP has truly shown […]

A little past midnight on the morning of January 25, a computer worm called SQL Slammer began attacking 300,000 servers on five continents. In just 14 minutes, from start to finish, the worm ripped through a flaw in a popular Microsoft database package called SQL Server 2000, knocking out 911 emergency response systems in Seattle, […]

Security experts and Microsoft have been warning users for the past couple of weeks to apply a Microsoft patch to head off exploits of an RPC vulnerability in Windows. It seems, that despite everyones good intentions, the worm has finally hit. Redmond and others are reemphasizing the need for customers to apply the mid-July Windows […]

Enterprise Fulfilling a promise it made earlier in the year, Symantec Corp. will release next month a new line of gateway security appliances, the Symantec Gateway Security Appliance 5400 Series. The release is scheduled for Sept. 9 and will add to Symantecs family of Gateway Security Appliances, which combine firewall, intrusion detection, content filtering, and […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. has extended its resale agreement for Hitachi Ltd.s high-end storage array until 2008, officials will announce Wednesday at HP World in Atlanta. /zimages/6/26680.gif HP began the contract with Tokyo-based Hitachi in 1999, and currently sells the XP512 and XP1024, based on Hitachis Lightning 9900 V series. The extension is officially a nine-year deal […]

Network Appliance Inc. and Veritas Software Corp. announced an expanded partnership Tuesday, with the promise of delivering integrated product bundles this winter, officials said. By doing so, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Network Appliance can offer users solutions that better counter those of rival EMC Corp. and its pending $1.3 billion purchase of Legato Systems Inc., officials said. […]

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