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A unique form of storage virtualization and a new systems management technology will highlight EMC Corp.s software plans for next year. According to officials of the Hopkinton, Mass., company, the moves will come under the banner of infrastructure services and represent the second part of EMCs three-part AutoIS plan, begun in October 2001. The first […]

Computer Associates International Inc. last week launched a new version of its BrightStor backup software for laptops and handheld computers. BrightStor Mobile Backup 4.0, unlike its enterprise-focused prior versions, is tailored for departmental use and for small and midsize companies, said CA officials, in Islandia, N.Y. Besides being scaled down, Mobile Backup is now also […]

Hughes Supply Inc. moves a lot of building materials off its shelves and, as a result, has to back up a lot of inventory and transaction data. The Orlando, Fla., company backs up data related to the $780 million of product it sold in its most recent fiscal quarter from a 12-terabyte Hewlett-Packard Co. XP1024 […]

At the CeBIT America show last week, eWEEK Labs partnered with sister publication PC Magazine to select the most compelling products and technologies being exhibited on the show floor. eWEEK Labs analysts and editors teamed with members of the eWEEK Corporate Partner Advisory Board to evaluate products in the six enterprise IT categories. PC Magazine […]

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Internet The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Monday a law requiring the nations public libraries to filter out Internet pornography, ruling it does not violate free-speech rights. By a 6-3 vote, the justices reversed a ruling by a special three-judge federal court panel in Philadelphia that the filtering requirement caused libraries to violate the First […]

CeBIT Panel: Critical Wireless Apps Slowed By Maturity, Standardization Issues Wireless networks and technologies have to become considerably more standardized and reliable before the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) even considers porting mission-critical or time-sensitive applications to mobile platforms. The maturity problem has been exacerbated by the economic problems encountered by the telecommunications industry, […]

Maxtor Corporation said it had begun shipping a 300-Gbyte parallel ATA drive to retailers. The drive emphasizes capacity over performance, with a drive spindle that spins at 5,400 RPMs. The drive uses Maxtors exclusive ATA-133 interface, which the company is holding onto as rivals begin to ship Serial ATA drives. The 300GB Hard Drive Retail […]

Ralph Szygenda is group vice president and CIO of General Motors. Having joined GM seven years ago to spearhead the effort to take control of GMs IT systems from former subsidiary Electronic Data Systems, Szygenda is now readying GM for what he calls the “third wave” of outsourcing. eWEEKs Eric Lundquist and Stan Gibson interviewed […]

BEI Corp.s UltraBac Software division last week launched UltraBac 7.1, adding new Unix agents, plus incremental backup support for Windows 2003, officials said. The software, for midsize companies and large companies departmental use, is available now starting at $495 per server. UltraBacs 6.x series had basic Unix support, which was removed in Version 7.0 as […]

Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates will outline Microsofts end-to-end homeland security strategy on Wednesday during a one-day conference, “IT Leadership in a Security-Focused World” in Washington, D.C. The conference is being co-sponsored by the Information Technologoy Industry (ITI) Council and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). IBMs senior VP for […]

Enterprise Storage 3PAR Introduces Utility Storage Storage vendor 3PAR is trying to bring the utility computing model to the storage industry. 3PAR already offers its InServ Storage Server, which lets customers easily add storage that can be managed by the servers software. Last week the company added Thin Provisioning software to the storage server that […]