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Enterprise Storage Disk Arrays Gaining in Popularity for Backup Relatively inexpensive secondary disk storage is gaining a significant foothold in corporate data centers, according to a survey of more than 1,000 IT managers due to be released next month. Peripheral Concepts, which released preliminary results of the survey this week, said about 50 percent of […]

Worms A new computer worm, known as Coronex, takes advantage of public panic about the real life virus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. The mass-mailing Windows worm aims to persuade people to open an attachment offering details on the current SARS epidemic. If opened the worm forwards itself to all contacts in the Outlook address book. […]

When Handspring first came out of stealth mode. I was a bit disappointed that its first product fell so close to the Palm tree. My guess was that the company was going to get involved in the education market. There seemed to me to be a vacuum left by Apple Computers eMate, and the industry […]

Enterprise Storage Storage Startup Helps Find the Corporate Smoking Guns Startup RenewData is at the center of a growing business thanks to government regulations aimed at uncovering corporate malfeasance. RenewData, which announced its initial products this month, provides data recovery services to law firms and companies facing litigation. The companys service involves the restoration of […]

Microsoft Corp.s main goal with is, as usual, to sell more copies of the operating system. Selling anything these days, however, is not a simple proposition. eWEEK Labs tests show that Microsoft has taken some innovative technologies and wrapped them into a nice interface to a server operating system that is more secure, friendlier to […]

Wireless Developer Activity on the Rise Survey As the wireless sector continues to gain market momentum, security issues for these networks are of paramount concern for many developers, according to a survey from research firm Evans Data. The survey, titled Wireless Development Survey, Volume I, 2003, indicates that the greatest increase for developers working on […]

On the heels of complaints by a number of Windows XP users regarding system slowdowns caused by a recent Microsoft security patch, Microsoft has issued an update to its security bulletin on 811493. “Microsoft is actively investigating the performance related problems and will re-issue the Windows XP SP1 patch when it has been corrected and […]

Veritas Software Corp., the specialist in data management, on Wednesday reported a profit of $43 million on $394 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2003, officials said. This is relatively flat compared to the first quarter a year ago, in which the Mountain View, Calif., firm saw income of $44 million with revenue […]

Enterprise Storage Manufacturers Form Initiative for Serial SCSI Products Adaptec this week spearheaded an initiative with partners to deliver the industrys first serial-attached SCSI disk drives. Adaptec will work with Fujitsu, Hitachi, Maxtor and Seagate to co-market the disk drives to the enterprise. The development initiative will allow original equipment manufacturers and system integrators to […]

The slow but steady path to storage over IP was paved another mile today, with QLogic Corp. certifying its latest host-bus adapters for Veritas Software Corp.s midrange backup product. QLogics SANblade, QLA4010 and QLA4040, announced last fall, are gradually gaining industry support. They are already certified for Mountain View, Calif.-based Legato Systems Inc.s Networker 7.0 […]

Yesterday, Storage Supersite Editor David Morgensterns column questioned consumers demand for mobile digital video. He has good reason to be skeptical: While Apple Computers iPod was a natural digital successor to the Sony Walkman, the market for portable video really has no strong precedent. Sure, there have been portable televisions for decades, but they have […]

Storage Technology Corp., a mid-tier maker of disk arrays and tape libraries, announced Tuesday income of $16.5 million on revenues of $480 million for the first quarter of 2003. This compares to year-ago income of $6 million, with revenue up 5 percent from $455.9 million, also a year ago. “Were very pleased with the economic […]