eWEEK EDITORS

EMC Corp. will announce new hardware and software options for its flagship Symmetrix DMX family next week. The core of the news will be mainframe support, which officials of the Hopkinton, Mass., storage giant previously said would come this summer. Ficon, or Fibre Connection, is the popular method of attaching storage systems to mainframes. Because […]

Shipments of Handhelds Continue to Fall IDC announced late Tuesday that worldwide handheld shipments for the second quarter were down 10.7 percent, to 2.27 million units, compared with the same period a year ago. The firm attributed the decline to sluggish demand from business buyers and consumers. Analysts have attributed the steady decline to a […]

Enterprise Storage Z-Force Switch Boosts NAS Scalability Z-force Inc. this week announced availability of its ZX-1000 File Switch, a new network node that enables the creation of a scalable Common Internet File System architecture. Z-forces File Switch sits at the heart of an architecture called a NAS Array—enabling an unlimited number of industry-standard, off-the-shelf NAS […]

Enterprise Storage Quantum Shows New Intelligent Tape Quantum Corp. this week introduced the first firmware for monitoring and reporting on midrange tape drives, giving super digital linear tape (SDLT) drives an added edge at a time when sales are still lagging behind those of its closest competitor, linear tape open (LTO) drives. Quantums new DLTSage […]

Enterprise Swiss researchers released a paper this week outlining a way to speed the cracking of alphanumeric Windows passwords, reducing the time to break such codes to an average of 13.6 seconds, from 1 minute 41 seconds. The method involves using large lookup tables to match encoded passwords to the original text entered by a […]

Western Digital Corp. announced Thursday that it had purchaed the assets of magnetic head manufacturer Read-Rite Corp. for approximately $95.4 million in cash. The purchase gives WDC in-house component manufacturing capabilities, roughly similar to the model used by Seagate and Hitachi. Although sourcing components from third parties gives an OEM improved cost leverage, internal component […]

Veritas Software Corp. announced a record $413 million revenue for its second quarter of 2003 today, keeping $49 million in profit, officials said. The figures are up from the first quarter, which saw $394 million in revenue with $43 million of income, and compared to last years quarter, which had figures of $365 million and […]

Computer Associates International Inc. beat Wall Street revenue expectations, posting a 6 percent rise to $813 million for its first fiscal quarter of 2004. The Islandia, N.Y., company also beat Thomsen First Call earnings-per-share estimates of nine cents a share by posting earnings of 14 cents a share. That, however, was on a non-generally accepted-accounting-principles […]

Tips used for Top Tips come from the ExtremeTech forum and are written by our community. Question from nathan00 “Im going to be hooking up a wireless network and i wanted to get some info. i probably wanna go with 802.11b because its the cheapest and i dont need more then 11mbps bandwith. 1) I […]

Next week, Microsoft plans to offer an update on new compiler technology that is being co-developed by the companys Programmer Productivity Research Center (PPRC) and the companys developer tools division. The company will detail its “Phoenix” software optimization and analysis framework at the annual Microsoft Faculty Summit, which kicks off on Monday in Redmond. To […]

Storage firm Quantum Corp. reported another quarter of losses Tuesday, while Storage Technology Corp. had another quarter of growth, officials of those companies said. Quantum, which makes tape products and disk-based backup appliances, earned $202 million for its first quarter of 2003, but wound up losing $9 million overall. Quantum made $211 million and lost […]

Privacy The U.S. federal government and EarthLink Inc. on Monday warned of a surge in unsolicited e-mail and scam Web sites that are designed to steal the identity of unsuspecting Internet users. The Atlanta-based Internet service provider has seen a spike since the beginning of the year in e-mail linked to so-called “phisher” Web site […]