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Although the IBM Software Group was officially announced on Jan. 10, 1995, it was actually put in place in 1993. Now, 10 years later, it is the leading software developer in the world. eWEEK Senior Writer Darryl K. Taft sat down with Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of the IBM Software Group, […]

Through the current downturn in IT spending, many vendors of business intelligence software have continued to grow. One of those is Business Objects S.A., of San Jose, Calif. On the eve of the companys launch last month of Version 6 of its namesake platform, Business Objects CEO Bernard Liautaud met with eWEEK editors to discuss […]

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Snap Appliance last week announced an upgrade to its midrange product, the Snap Server 4400, focusing on speed. The new version, Snap Server 4500, uses a Pentium 4 instead of the Pentium 3, officials said. To further increase the Linux-based network-attached storage units performance, the 1U (1.75-inch) device comes with 512MB of double-data-rate memory or […]

Internet Gartner is advising businesses using Microsofts Passport authentication service to pull the plug on it. The move is a response to a serious security flaw discovered May 7 that placed at risk the identities of roughly 200 million users of the online single-sign-on user-identity service. The flaw made it possible for an attacker, knowing […]

FCC OKs Leasing of Wireless Spectrum Federal regulators voted Thursday to allow cell phone companies and others to lease unused portions of their airwaves, a move that could lead to new wireless services for consumers, particularly in rural areas. The Federal Communications Commission voted 4-1 to abandon a 40-year-old standard that restricted leasing. The new […]

Veritas Software Corp. has new technology to restore Windows servers on different hardware than their original configurations, officials said Monday. The option comes in Bare Metal Restore 4.6, available by early June. “We do everything per Windows [application programming interfaces] and primarily having to do with the registry,” said Richard Harrison, a product manager, in […]

Enterprise According to a study released this week by AFCOMs Data Center Institute,information security is a major priority for the nations largest data centers in the face of constant terror alerts, tensions in Iraq and proliferating cyberthreats. The study, conducted earlier this year among 257 data center managers, showed that nearly 50% of the companies […]

John, I have read your CIOs: Guilty of CRM! article and completely agree on the sad state of CRM failures in the market place. I adamantly disagree, however, that the CIO is the root cause of this failure. Any CIO will fail in the deployment of any enterprise-wide initiative CRM, ERP, etc., if these initiatives […]

Enterprise Storage iSCSI and Microsoft Exchange Backup Well Together Spectra Logic recently conducted a benchmark test that, according to the tape library manufacturer, shows iSCSI backup performance is essentially equal to Fibre Channel in terms of performance for Microsoft Exchange database backups. At 33 MB per second for iSCSI and 35 MB per second for […]

Hi Eric: Your May 12th editorial, “IT Skills for Tomorrow” has ideas that Louis E. Lataif has been thinking about for three years. Lou is the Dean of the School of Management at Boston University. Even more relevant, he and the faculty two years ago implemented a new type of MBA, two degrees: an MS […]

Network Appliance Inc.s profit increased to $24.8 million for its fourth quarter, up from $19.7 last quarter and more than triple its $7.8 million figure a year ago, officials said Tuesday. Revenue for the quarter was $241.6 million, up from $228.5 million in the prior quarter and $204.9 million a year ago. Profit for the […]