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Tape storage firm Exabyte Corp. will ship its first automated libraries with Linear Tape Open-2 drives next month, officials said Thursday. LTO-2 drives, also called Ultrium, hold up to 200GB of data with up to 40MBps transfer rates, or twice those specifications with 2:1 compression. Exabyte will use the drives in its entry-level 110L, midrange […]

Months of speculation regarding Microsofts Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB), a k a “Palladium,” will end in May, when Microsoft provides the first live demonstrations of the technology at its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. WinHEC, slated for early May in New Orleans, is typically where Microsoft shows off new operating system advances to its hardware […]

Enterprise IT managers who desire serial SCSI hard drives will get their wish by the second half of 2004, officials of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. said Tuesday. SCSI hardware with serial interfaces will be much easier to configure than current SCSI connections and will have easier-to-handle cabling, vendors promise. Technical work has long been […]

Given the digestive-tract reactions often attributed to fast food, I should not be surprised that my recent column on the downside of the Wi-Fi Value Meal special generated a little bile. Furthermore, since I wrote that column, the industry has shown that it is determined to take Wi-Fi into even more-remote restaurants, with IBM announcing […]

Operation Iraqi Freedom In a brief written by Gartner analysts Dan Miklovic and Rich Mogull, Gartner offered advice and tips that businesses can take to minimize the impact of the war with Iraq. “Times of crisis call for enterprises and IT managers to remain cool-headed and to attend to basics,” Miklovic and Mogull say in […]

When New Jersey State Sen. Shirley Turner was first inspired to propose legislation banning the outsourcing of IT and other state contracts to overseas companies, she had no clue that bill No. 1349 would incite both heated lobbying by technology groups against it and a wildfire of support from laid-off technology workers. Since its introduction […]

A billion dollars for a few lines of code? On the surface, the lawsuit filed by SCO against IBM claiming violation of intellectual property rights is frivolous. Coming from a vendor that is struggling to turn a profit, it looks like a desperate attempt to earn money through the courts, rather than by delivering value […]

Gateway Closing More Stores Gateway is closing 76 more of its Gateway Country Stores this week and laying off 1,900 more workers in its effort to return to profitability. The measures, announced last week, were the latest moves by the PC maker to reduce costs by more than $400 million. The current cuts will amount […]

This spring marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Mosaic Internet browser, the application that opened the door to the Web for many consumers and served as a wake-up call for Microsoft Corp. and many other companies. Mosaic also launched the meteoric rise of Netscape Communications Corp. and its founder, Marc Andreessen, who […]

Enterprise Storage InterSAN Extends Pathline Automation Features in Version 2.5 InterSAN, maker of storage area management (SAM) automation software, is set to unveil the latest version of its flagship management product this week, with the release of Pathline version 2.5. New to the software is a provisioning workflow management feature that extends the control of […]

Microsoft, Wind River Lead in Embedded OS Sales A new study places Microsoft as the new leader in revenues earned from the sale of embedded operating systems and bundled software in 2002, with perennial market leader Wind River Systems dropping to the second spot. The authors of the study added, however, that Wind River continues […]

An upgrade to InterSAN Inc.s storage management software, launching this week, will give enterprises automation and monitoring of SAN policies, officials said Friday. Pathline 2.5 exists in the subset known as storage resource management, or SRM. Such products aim to help users save time and money by applying custom rules and an application-centric focus to […]