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Storage giant EMC Corp. Wednesday, as expected, announced at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany, low-cost ATA drive options in its midrange Clariion array for users seeking a disk-based alternative to traditional tape backups. The parallel interface 250GB drives, from Maxtor Corp., of Milpitas, Calif., will give users approximately 50 percent savings compared with standard Fibre Channel […]

Picking the Editors Choice for single-drive tape backup units was difficult. The HP Ultrium 460e was hands-down the fastest unit on our 52GB backup test. But backup tests dont tell the whole story; restore operations are almost as important, though less frequently performed in the real world. Since LTO-based systems were slower at restoring data, […]

Settling on a standard is the obvious first step when buying a single-tape drive. Once youve done that, your choices will be based for the most part on price, performance, and capacity. Aside from these criteria, unmanaged drives are quite similar to one another and are controlled entirely by software. <

Gen-WAN Technology Launches 802.16a WLAN Equipment Taiwan-based network equipment maker Gen-WAN Technology recently launched broadband wireless network equipment using the 802.16a standard, a newly approved IEEE standard supporting the wireless MAN (metropolitan area network) air interface. Company chairman Peter Hsu said the companys broadband wireless Internet access (BWIA) system includes base stations, fixed and mobile […]

My colleague David Morgenstern at the Storage Supersite isnt the only one with a setup beef this week. With all the snow that has befallen New York City this winter, youd think I wouldnt mind a good excuse to stay indoors. But it wasnt the allure of hot cocoa and a toasty fireplace DVD that […]

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Privacy Yahoo! Inc. announced that a new version of their SpamGuard anti-spam protection for Yahoo! Mail. The company claims that in preliminary tests the new version decreases the amount of spam delivered to users by as much as 40%. SpamGuard is automatically available to all Yahoo! Mail users. The service also now blocks “web beacons” […]

Bluetooth Special Interest Grouphttp://www.bluetooth.org/The Bluetooth SIG seeks to develop, publish and promote the preferred short-range wireless specification for connecting mobile products, and to administer a qualification program that fosters interoperability for a positive user experience. CDMA Development Grouphttp://www.cdg.org/The CDMA Development Group is an international consortium of service providers and manufacturers to promote the usage of […]

EMC Corp. this week will roll out parallel ATA drives in several of its midrange Clariion storage systems that give users access to array-style features at less than half the cost, according to sources familiar with the plans. The Hopkinton, Mass., storage maker is targeting the option at users looking for a disk-based alternative to […]

When CEO Scott McNealy recently told eWeek that Sun is “a solid company financially, market-positionwise, technologywise, pipelinewise and all the rest of it,” some observers, no doubt, wondered if he was talking about the same company that reported a revenue decline of 31 percent last year and a net loss of $2.28 billion in the […]

The eWEEK Excellence Awards judges have made their final decisions—selecting from 760 entries the products that raise the information technology bar. The winning products cover the enterprise IT gamut, and its clear from their choices that the program judges—teams composed of eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners—weighed heavily in their evaluation criteria products ability […]

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