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Remember Cracker Jack prizes? They arent the highest quality toys, but they come right in the box of that candied popcorn—and theyre free. Thats how some companies view EMCs ControlCenter storage management software: Its not the best, but then again, its not the most expensive. Some contend it lacks features compared with offerings from Veritas, […]

Remember when you didnt worry about managing data storage? That was before e-commerce, e-mail and applications such as customer relationship management software created an explosion in servers, disks and data. For many today, investing in software to manage storage hardware is a must. Consider Kevan Bohlooli, director of information management at FPL Energy. He bought […]

Enterprise Californias highest court ruled Monday that a fired Intel employee did not trespass on the companys e-mail servers when he inundated its employees with electronic complaints. In the 4-3 decision the California Supreme Court overturned a lower court injunction that had barred Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi from e-mailing workers at his former employer. A lower […]

Veritas Software Corp.s December 2002 acquisition of Precise Software Solutions Ltd. is now official at $609 million, officials said today. “The acquisition of Precise will expand our expertise beyond storage management and into the adjacent application performance management space,” Veritas Chairman, CEO and President Gary Bloom said. Combined with the $62 million acquisition of Jareva […]

Every one of us has passed a highway accident and exclaimed, “Man, I hope that doesnt happen to me!” In our professional lives as technology leaders, we tend to say similar things when we regard IT debacles from afar. With so many bad examples out there to learn from, why do so many IT system […]

Microsoft Shakes Up Executive Ranks Microsoft last week announced the hiring of Peter Cullen, of the Royal Bank of Canada, to fill the top privacy post at the company. The job was vacant since Richard Purcell left earlier this year. Privacy plays a key role in how Microsoft develops its applications and policies. Cullen, who […]

Veritas Software Corp. last week announced the release of OpForce 3.0, enhancing platform support and simplifying administration of the former Jareva Technologies Inc. server automation software, officials said. The new version is the first since Veritas acquired Jareva for $62 million in December, but full technical integration wont come until Version 4.0 in the second […]

Linus Torvalds, the founder and lead developer of the Linux open-source operating system, has strong views about the legal dispute between The SCO Group and IBM, which he shared with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli in an e-mail exchange recently. Torvalds also said he was taking a leave of absence from Transmeta Corp. and becoming […]

High-end servers and storage will use less power, run quieter, scale higher and be more physically reliable, thanks to new 2.5-inch hard drives due in the first half of next year, officials industrywide said last week. The trend is a result of 3.5-inch drives nearing their physical limits, with just two generations of doubled specifications […]

Storage Technology Corp., Computer Associates International Inc. and IBM are each pumping up their mainframe virtual tape systems with added capacity and performance. The technology makes disk arrays appear as tape drives to mainframes. Disks are also much faster than tape for backups, and they speed up legacy applications that use tapes for batch processing. […]

eWEEK Labs recently conducted a roundtable discussion on Web services. Moderated by Technology Editor Peter Coffee, the roundtable comprised key players in several areas of the Web services space. The discussion centered on where Web services are as a technology, where the industry is in achieving effective consensus on standards, and how the business models […]

It chokes in-boxes, throttles bandwidth, insults, invites and offends. Its spam. In combating it, nearly any tactic seems justified. But amid calls that range from metered fines to hard jail time—to Microsofts filing of 15 lawsuits against alleged spammers here and abroad—the requests of one federal agency are making a lot of sense just now. […]