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McData Corp. announced a new entry-level Fibre Channel switch and new high-end software options last week, with more due this fall and into next year, officials in Broomfield, Colo., said. The new switch, the Sphereon 4300, at just four ports is McDatas smallest. It scales to 12 ports in four-port increments and includes the SANpilot […]

If you think your IT budget has problems with, say, a 10 percent cut, look at the federal governments E-Gov initiative, which is now in line to get about 2 percent of the amount initially requested by the Bush administration. Is this any way to run a government more like a business—an e-business in particular? […]

3COMs Claflin Joins AMD Board Bruce Claflin, president and CEO of 3COM, last week was elected to Advanced Micro Devices board of directors. Claflin, who also serves on the board of Time Warner Telecom, joined 3Com as its president and chief operating officer in 1998. He joins AMD as the company makes an aggressive push […]

Xiotech Corp. is aiming to fill the dearth of clustering options in enterprise storage with its new Magnitude three-dimensional array, according to company officials.”What weve done is taken a pure clustering approach, broken up into layers,” said Xiotech Corporate Architect Rob Peglar, in Eden Prairie, Minn. Storage administrators today have many third-party application clustering options, […]

Though the ink is still wet on its planned acquisition of Legato Systems Inc., EMC Corp. has a strategy to integrate, extend and sell new backup products around that companys software. While most users received the acquisition news positively, some still questioned EMCs ability to run Legato independently, as EMC CEO and President Joe Tucci […]

Palm, Handspring Merger Clears Antitrust Hurdle Two of the biggest names in the wireless PDA convergence space moved a step closer to merging Friday with an announcement from Palm Inc. that the antitrust waiting period for its purchase of Handspring Inc. had expired. The expiration of the waiting period required by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Anti-Trust Improvements […]

Enterprise Storage Hewlett-Packard Heightens SAN Tape IQ Hewlett-Packard Co. last week announced a new tape controller architecture that it said will help smarten up SAN-attached tape libraries. HP said its StorageWorks Extended Tape Library Architecture can significantly increase the IQ of tape backup systems, providing better scalability, security, and reliability. Unlike disk drives, which are […]

As companies increasingly do battle with hackers, viruses, data privacy leaks and theft and other cyber mishaps, insurers are developing cyber-insurance policies that protect firms across all industries—from financial services to retail to healthcare—against business interruption, data destruction, cyber extortion, cyber-terrorism and other threats to companies IT systems. Beginning in 2000, as cyber risks became […]

Our government and business leaders are building architectures of citizen and customer surveillance that may be hard to dismantle, warns computer scientist and privacy activist Marc Rotenberg, founder and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. An edited version of his interview with executive editor Marcia Stepanek follows. Consider for a […]

Enterprise By some accounts, it has been a bad year for Internet security so far: The number of incidents reported in the first half of 2003 climbed to 76,404 — just a little shy of the 82,094 reported for the entire year of 2002, according to the CERT Coordination Center of the Software Engineering Institute […]

Microsoft is taking another step towards its goal of simplifying software-patch management across its product line. Next month, the company will begin beta testing its Microsoft Installer 3.0 technology, according to beta information cited by various Windows enthusiast sites, including Steven Binks Bink.nu. If Microsoft sticks to plans it articulated earlier this year, MSI 3.0 […]

Microsoft is taking another step towards its goal of simplifying software-patch management across its product line. Next month, the company will begin beta testing its Microsoft Installer 3.0 technology, according to beta information cited by various Windows enthusiast sites, including Steven Binks Bink.nu. If Microsoft sticks to plans it articulated earlier this year, MSI 3.0 […]