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For entry-level customers on tight budgets, EMC Corp.s Clariion CX200 storage system is now available without the standard redundancy features, officials said this week. Intended as an alternative to Hewlett-Packard Co.s Modular Storage Array 1000, EMC removed the CX200s second processor, power supply and fan, as well as its cache backup battery. Customers can upgrade […]

Jim, I enjoyed your article “Service Matters“. The Amazon model works great until the moment you need to talk to a “live” body. I can only imagine that they are trying to reduce their operating expenses, yet at the expense of the consumer. In my Outlook contacts I have saved a toll-free number that Amazon […]

Kenny Loggins, that bearded bard of all that is footloose, called it when he sang in his eponymous song Im Free (Heaven Helps the Man), “Heaven helps the man who fights his fear.” The prescient pop star must have foreseen the wireless appliance turn of events that would transpire between two semiconductor giants nearly 20 […]

Enterprise Storage EMC Drops Clariion Pricing EMC this week announced enhancements to its entry-level Clariion CX200 line of networked storage systems. When it was launched last November, the CX200 was available only in dual-controller configurations, and had a list price of roughly $30,000. This week, single-controller CX200 systems will also be available. “That allows us […]

If you have a Hotmail account, you know spam. Intimately. But if Microsoft Research has its way, help may be on the way. I ended up dumping my Hotmail account about a year ago, after losing the spam battle. I was deluged with more than 100 spams a day, and the filters Microsoft offered to […]

Dear eWEEK: Laws have been made to protect computer users against viruses, yet we still have anti-virus software. Dollars spent on anti-spam software are climbing to the same level as anti-virus. Truth is that you can use many of the existing laws to stop spammers if you had the time and resources, and there can […]

Enterprise Storage New Controller May Jump Start iSCSI Market A new price point—driven by a higher level of chip-level integration—can spur growth in a new market. That may be the case with an iSCSI storage networking device from iReady. Working with National Semiconductor, iReady and National engineers integrated hardware iSCSI acceleration, a full TCP/IP offload […]

Confident that IT administrators have grown comfortable with the concept of Web-based software and pay-as-you-go grid computing, EMC Corp. officials have introduced subscription storage. Just two weeks after the launch of their AutoAdvice tech support and SAN Architect design services, EMC is preparing for metered storage billing with its new OpenScale service, officials said last […]

IBM last week announced feature upgrades to its high-end storage array, focusing on data protection. The new version of TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server 800—better known as Shark—doesnt have a new name. It will ship June 27, officials said. Among the new features are improvements to the FlashCopy snapshot software, PPRC (Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy) replication software […]

Microsofts iLoo Story Takes Turns Microsoft failed to completely flush away its iLoo hullabaloo last week. The story took two turns—first, on Monday, when Microsoft officials said an April 30 press release about the Web toilet from its British subsidiary was a hoax and issued an apology. One day later, Microsoft reversed its position on […]

They say that New York is the city that never sleeps—and neither does its data processing. From a Lower Manhattan data center, NYCAPS, the New York City Automated Personnel System, handles 18 terabytes of data for municipal human resources needs. The SAN runs on Hitachi Ltd. Lightning 9900V and Sun Microsystems Inc. T3 arrays. The […]

The information technology industry needs innovation around standards. It does not need an intellectual property terrorist threatening to sue everyone in sight. Most people, perhaps even SCO and its president and CEO, Darl McBride, might agree with that assertion. So why is SCO trying to stick up everyone whos ever used a computer running Linux? […]