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Heres a variety of storage news stories from around the world: Enterprise Storage Kick-Start for New Fibre Channel SANs A group of leading storage equipment and software producers will develop 10Gbps and 4Gbps storage area network products, following endorsement from the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA). Agilent Technologies, FalconStor Software, Fujitsu, JNI, Seagate and QLogic […]

In one of its most serious moves to combat rival SAP AG, PeopleSoft Inc. this week acquired midmarket competitor J.D. Edwards & Co. for $1.7 billion. The acquisition is only the latest by the Pleasanton, Calif., enterprise resource planning software developer, but according to PeopleSoft President and CEO Craig Conway, it is one of the […]

Roads Diverge to Wireless Net Service QualityEngineers hammering out a quality-of-service (QoS) standard for 802.11 networks have agreed to disagree by writing two distinctly different mechanisms into a draft standard that could be ratified early next year. Computer industry companies such as Intel and Microsoft have rallied support for Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA), a […]

IBM on Tuesday announced product details for its long-awaited storage virtualization products, due this summer. Virtualization is the management of disparate hardware as a single pool, but over the past few years has been limited to minor starts and stops, and perhaps more hype than could be fulfilled, industry pundits have said. IBMs own products […]

After years of witnessing storage companies come and go, one customer has decided he knows better for the network-attached storage niche. Zetta Systems Inc., a seven-person company expecting to be at 50 by the years end, next month will launch both the company itself and Zetta Server 2.0, software for turning nearly any hardware into […]

Brocade Bolsters SAN Management Software … IBM Details Storage Virtualization Appliance … SanDisk Rolls Out New miniSD Flash Memory Cards … SARS Slump Hits Taiwan PC Shipments in Q2 Enterprise Storage Brocade Bolsters SAN Management Software Brocade Communications Systems this week announced the release to resellers of its fourth-generation Fabric Manager software, which now provides […]

Discuss this column in our forum. Palms announcement that it will acquire Handspring, one of Palm OSs earliest licensees and maker of the Treo communicator, will bolster the goals of both Palm and Handspring, although it will eliminate a major PalmSource licensee. The short analysis as to why Handspring sold is simple. Handset development is […]

Mr. Rapoza, Thank you for writing this article (Idiocy Imperils the Web). You managed to sum up 5 years of frustration into a light, one page read. Im tempted to hang the article in my cubicle, but I doubt the suits would appreciate it. I guess it will have to be just “our little secret”. […]

ATLANTA—AT&T Corp. plans to spend $500 million this year to make it easier for enterprise customers to do business with it, holding out the prospect that dealing with this telephone company wont be clouded by the battles that have come to characterize the telecommunications industrys “customer service” operations. AT&T Chairman and CEO David Dorman said […]

Discuss this column in our forum. In the dubious quest to turn cell phones into the pocket-sized princes of all media, adding digital images as opposed to, say, digital music to phones makes sense for several reasons. These reasons include the lack of thorny copyright and digital rights managenent issues, the spontaneity of photo opportunities […]

Enterprise As enterprises try to implement more detailed security initiatives, many will find that they need outside support to achieve their goals, according to Gartner. By 2005, 60 percent of enterprises will outsource monitoring of at least one perimeter security technology. Managed security services are relatively new to the marketplace, but during the past two […]