eWEEK EDITORS

Storage software firm Legato Systems Inc. announced flat revenue but with a much smaller loss for the first quarter of 2003, compared to the last quarter of 2002, officials said Tuesday. Legato, of Mountain View, Calif., earned $74 million in the quarter, down from $76.6 million in the prior quarter, but up from $55.6 million […]

Enterprise Storage Adaptec Puts Stake in iSCSI Ground with Patent Claim Adaptec last week notified the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)s IP Storage working group that the company may own intellectual property pertaining to the iSCSI specification. While Adaptecs claims may only apply narrowly to a certain implementation of iSCSI, it could nonetheless be a […]

It can be frustrating being a CIO these days. Besides the lousy economy, world unrest and the task of defending the value of IT to the corporate bottom line, I cant believe how difficult it is to get some vendors products to work as promised. You would think that most vendors, who are still licking […]

Now that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has spoken, everyone is taking sides. Some agree with his recent statement that Silicon Valley as we know it is a thing of the past. Others say, bosh! Ellisons head is stuck in the last paradigm, and he cant see the future. We think theres enough truth in his […]

This week, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will unveil its most important product since the company was launched in 1969, according to CEO Hector Ruiz. For the first time in years, AMD is launching a product that takes a clearly different path from its overarching competitor: Intel Corp. The AMD Opteron processor and the AMD64 class […]

John Lentz, manager of computer operations at Boston Universitys Office of Information Technology, regularly backs up 250GB of data from 300 academic departments. “I like tape,” said Lentz, in Boston. “I want something that I can take and put off-site.” But Lentz, like most storage administrators, said the need for more capacity and easy management […]

Baan to Be Sold The owner of enterprise applications developer Baan is looking to sell the company. Conglomerate Invensys announced a major restructuring last week that includes plans to sell Baan, which has some 6,000 customer sites around the world. Earlier this year, Invensys said it would have to write off a large part of […]

Government White House cybersecurity adviser Howard Schmidt will resign from his post at the end of the month. Schmidt became chair of the Presidents Critical Infrastructure Protection Board in February following the departure of his predecessor, Richard Clarke. Schmidt played a key role in drafting the administrations recently released cybersecurity strategy, and has spent the […]

Cisco Wi-Fi Phone Due in June Cisco Systems intends to introduce a portable Wi-Fi phone in the next few months. The 7920 phone is essentially a wireless version of Ciscos 7960 IP phone, which uses a wired Ethernet connection to make and receive telephone calls. However, the 7920 will have a wireless handset that uses […]

Redmond is looking into a fix for security patch it issued late last week. The patch — which was designed to stave off a buffer overrun that could allow attackers to elevate privilege permissions on users machines — ended up slowing some users systems to a crawl. Various Windows enthusiast sites on the Web have […]

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Pocket PC Films will distribute Pocketainments Pocket Pix Cartridge, which allows videos to play on Nintendos GameBoy Advanced and GameBoy Advance SP. The new adaptor is designed to fit into the devices plug-in card slot, and operates as easily as swapping out video games. The units advanced compression software enables it to fit up to […]