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In its national strategy to secure cyberspace, the federal government says it wants to show us how security should be done. Now, with a leadership crisis gripping the Bush administrations primary cyber-security unit, officials may have their best opportunity yet to provide a positive example. The sudden resignation last month of cyber-security czar pro tem […]

Group Hopes to Leapfrog 802.11 for Wireless Video A working group quietly kicked off an effort this week to bring the 1394 protocol over 802.15.3 wireless networks. Backers hope the approach could leapfrog efforts on 802.11 to provide a route for consumer electronics companies to send high quality video signals over wireless home networks. “A […]

Dear Stan, I just read your commentary in the May 5, 2003 edition of eWEEK. Its not obvious to me whether you were kidding or not, so Im a little perturbed by your statement regarding spammers: “Should we care about defending the rights of unpopular minorities (spammers)?” Excuse me, but isnt being a member of […]

Read this weeks Spencer column.

Thank you for bringing an open view to this environment. Having been on both sides of this equation, I think everyone needs to understand that they are giving up a lot in the long term to absorb risk and maybe save in the short term. Once gone, those business skills are never coming back and […]

Responding to customer demands to administer storage more in the context of overall IT infrastructure, Veritas Software Corp. this week will announce Service Manager, a far-reaching new master console, which wont be complete until 2005. Formerly code-named Global Operations Manager, and mentioned but not elaborated on at the same Veritas Vision event in Las Vegas […]

Enterprise Storage Diligent Brings Virtual Tape Technology to Open Systems Diligent Technologies last week brought its mainframe-class tape virtualization technology into open systems. The company will offer VTF Open, which brings the technology to the open systems space, said Noemi Greyzdorf, product manager. The software resides on an off-the-shelf Linux server running Red Hat 7.2 […]

Microsoft is planning to unveil this summer its strategy for the next version of its Passport Internet authentication technology. Dont expect too many surprises here: The Passport update is going to add support for more of the .Net Framework technologies, SOAP and WSDL. No word yet on when Microsoft will roll these bits out to […]

Its time for storage users to fight back against industry politics, according to analyst Jon Toigo. Toigo, author of the popular book “The Holy Grail of Data Storage Management” and two books on disaster recovery, next week will announce the Data Management Institute. The new group is solely for storage customer advocacy—vendors are barred from […]

Homeland Security President Bush this week chose Lucent Technologies CEO Patricia Russo to join a panel looking at ways to better secure the nations telecommunications infrastructure. The panel provides the president with analysis and recommendations related to making the nations telecommunications infrastructure better able to withstand disasters. After operating for several years in a quiet […]

A new tape library from Advanced Digital Information Corp. will debut next week with high-availability features and will have iSCSI connections in the future, officials said Friday. The Scaler 10K Dual Aisle will ship in May for about $320,000. ADIC designed its individual cartridges, controllers, drives, robots and power supplies to still function while others […]

Enterprise Storage EMC, Tumbleweed Tackle E-Mail Storage Tumbleweed Communications this week announced the integration of its Message Monitor software with EMCs Centera data storage systems. Tumbleweeds e-mail filtering application flags suspected violations of securities industry regulations using word analysis and policy engines. It can process hundreds of thousands of messages per day and is folded […]