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Enterprise Storage Startup Readies iSCSI Storage Start-up Intransa said it will deliver this month storage systems supporting IP and blocks of data, bridging an important gap and helping to deliver on some of IP storages promise. The company plans to ship the IP5000, which moves information using the iSCSI protocol. Roger Cox, an industry analyst […]

The IEEEs approval of the final draft of the 802.11g specification on Thursday was in many ways a non-event. Vendors have been shipping devices based on the draft specification for months, and most say that the specification has changed little. The minor tweaks that were created to enhance compatibility with the slower but far more […]

Windows storage specialist PowerQuest Corp. this week released V2i Protector 2.0, focusing on incremental disk-based backup. “We believe now it will challenge the more mature file-based backup” products, Chief Technology Officer Don Kleinschnitz said in a recent interview, in Phoenix. The incremental features of the new version include backing up only the hard disk sectors […]

Enterprise IT security at federal agencies will get a boost this month from the first class of 46 students, mostly midcareer IT professionals, who completed training under a federal scholarship-for-service program. Cybercorps, as the program is called, was created in 2000 to produce a pool of security-trained IT professionals obligated to work for the government. […]

eWeek Labs provides its take on “Palladium,” a k a Microsofts Next Generation Secure Computing Base — based on Microsoft Windows Hardware Engineering info, plus Microsoft documentation. The results? There are some significant implementation hurdles ahead, say the labs folk. In other Palladium news, Microsoft is working to build a Palladium community, it seems, with […]

Enterprise Storage Master of its Own Domain Data Domain, a backup and recovery startup staffed by former Network Appliance executives, is prepping its first product launch. The Data Domain DD200 Recovery Appliance and the Data Domain Restore Protection Manager software were designed to support existing backup software and require fewer disks for backup data than […]

T11.5, the governing body responsible for setting the future of management interfaces for Fibre Channel, is now developing a standard for how servers and storage interact with network-based software. Such a standard would be useful because of the recent trend among storage vendors to build management software inside storage networking switches directly, or connected to […]

Emotions Run High In Spectrum Hearing Emotions flared at a House hearing Wednesday on spectrum needs for emergency responders as some lawmakers pressed their case that broadcasters should be moved almost immediately off of valuable spectrum so fire, police and rescuers could more effectively communicate. Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., said communications is the single biggest […]

Enterprise Storage CNTs FICON Director Integrates MAN and WAN CNT this week unveiled a Fibre Channel/FICON director that the company said is the first to offer integrated metropolitan-area network (MAN) and wide-area network (WAN) capabilities. The FC/9000 can support long-distance applications using high-speed interfaces at “virtually unlimited” distances, CNT said. Potential customer applications include business […]

Several members of eWeeks Corporate Partner Advisory Board recently met with eWeek Technology Editor Peter Coffee for a Roundtable discussion about the corporate network. Security and reliability topped both priority and challenge lists, especially as the window for maintenance gets increasingly smaller or even nonexistent. eWeek: Whats the biggest issue relating to your corporate network […]

Western Digital announced a SATA-equipped version of its special-Caviar SE drive on Wednesday, complete with safeguards to protect the SATA connector and allow different sources of power to be used. The 7,200-RPM Caviar SE will ship later this month at capacity points of 250 Gbytes and 120 Gbytes. WDs pricing for both capacities will be […]

When is a 17-inch monitor not a 17-inch monitor or a 30GB hard disk not a 30GB hard disk? When you actually use them. Following the outcry over misleading vendor statistics, monitor and hard disk manufacturers began modifying their measurement of screen size and hard disk capacity to include such qualifiers as “usable” screen space […]