eWEEK EDITORS

Enterprise Storage StorageTek Speeds Up Fibre Channel Tape Drive Storage Technology Corp. this week announced the availability of its T9840C tape drive, the latest evolution in StorageTeks T9X40 family of tape drives. “By doubling the storage capacity over the T9840A and T9840B, StorageTeks T9840C drives will enable us to use significantly less tape library space […]

Editors Note: On Wednesday, IBM filed a counterclaim against SCO in its ongoing intellectual property battle over Unix/Linux. Here is the text of the letter that IBM sent to its internal sales force on the suit. IBM LAUNCHES COUNTER CLAIMS AGAINST SCO Bob SamsonVice President, Systems SalesIBM Systems Group IBM yesterday responded to SCOs amended […]

In the latest move of an endgame over Linux, IBM Corp. has filed countersuit against The SCO Group Inc. in the companies ongoing legal battle over Unix copyrights. IBM is making three primary claims in the suit, filed Wednesday with the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. IBM claims that SCO is violating […]

By the end of this year, 802.11b should be dead. Actually, it will surely be the Wi-Fi standard that has the greatest usage, but as a product category it will cease to be. With chip vendors focusing on dual-band solutions and 802.11g offering backward compatibility, 802.11b will be effectively replaced by two standards that far […]

The SCO Group Inc. fired back at IBM Corp. Thursday, hours after the Armonk, N.Y., tech giant countersued SCO over alleged intellectual-property violations around Unix/Linux. IBM filed the countersuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah late Wednesday. IBM is claiming that SCO is in violation of the GNU General Public License […]

The HP Compaq Presario S4000T, our Editors Choice for desktops, hits a very sweet spot in our roundup. Like the Dell, Gateway, and Sony systems, the S4000T has good performance and cool multimedia features, but it does so for about $300 less than the others. Wed also like to give a nod to the Gateway […]

With roughly 2,000 employees and about 100 partners, Fairchild Korea Semiconductor records almost $700 million in annual sales. A common practice among many companies is the centralization of IT systems, with communication between branches relying on a central system in the head office. CIO Choi Yang-Ho, however, points to the rapid growth and relative importance […]

NEW YORK—Storage specialist EMC Corp. will lower its prices, enter new markets and continue its efforts in software interoperability, officials said at the annual Analysts Day here. The plans are fueled by the recent and pending $1.3 billion acquisition of backup and monitoring vendor Legato Systems Inc. and by the mildly improving economy, CEO and […]

Enterprise Storage PyX Stakes Claim to Error Recovery for iSCSI PyX Technologies Inc. this week unveiled an iSCSI platform that the company said is the first to deliver error recovery capabilities previously available only in Fibre Channel architectures. PyX delivers iSCSI server and client software to OEMs and VARs that meets—and exceeds—iSCSI Error Recovery Level […]

Wireless Security Suppliers of wireless LAN products are falling short in their efforts to deliver highly secure products that are interoperable with those of other vendors, according to a recently released report from the Meta Group. “We continue to see lackluster adoption of wireless LANs in the enterprise,” says Chris Kozup, program director with Meta […]

Enterprise Storage Storage Technology and CommVault to Collaborate on Recovery App Storage Technology Corp. said it will this week sign a deal with CommVault Systems Inc. to work together on a StorageTek version of CommVaults QiNetix Quick Recovery software. One industry analyst said StorageTek could go in a lot of directions with Quick Recovery, which […]

IDC: Q2 Handset Growth Up Sharply from New Features Mobile phones are just about the only type of hardware still growing at a double-digit pace, and the future for the market continues to look bright as manufacturers bring data applications into voice handsets, according to research released Thursday by IDC. Worldwide shipments of mobile phones […]