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Executive Shift at Microsoft Orlando Ayala, group Vice President in charge of Microsofts worldwide sales, marketing and services, is resigning his post to take on a newly created job as head of small- and midsize- business sales for the company, according to sources. Kevin Johnson, who serves as senior vice president of Microsoft Americas, is […]

Building a top-notch enterprise architecture isnt just about getting networks, servers and other technical resources to mesh. Its also about developing the human resources—the knowledge, experience, skills and perspective—needed to execute a strategy. eWeek Executive Managing Editor/Features Jeff Moad recently spoke with Garry Griffiths, executive vice president and chief human resources officer at American Management […]

Storage start-up LeftHand Networks Inc. this summer will expand its ATA-based product line for better reliability and scalability. The 50-person Boulder, Colo., companys Distributed Storage Matrix array and software is designed for customers who cant afford the complexity or price of a brand-name storage area network, CEO Bill Chambers said. LeftHand will soon upgrade its […]

Enterprise Storage Celera Genomics Links SAN Islands into a Global Entity Celera Genomics Group late last year overhauled its storage systems and began the process of building a global SAN. The new infrastructure, based in the Maryland headquarters, is a 150 terabyte global SAN, consisting of 61 IBM AIX servers and three EMC Symmetrix frames […]

Enterprise Storage Adaptec Moves IP Storage Network Program Forwards Storage firm Adaptec launched a beta program for IP storage networking systems, which it claims will lead to the first “real world” deployments of IP storage networks. Together with OEMs, Adaptec is working with a broad range of customers including Trimble, Sandia Labs and the University […]

My recent article Face the Music: CDs Suck pointed to market forces that inhibit the arrival of a high-performance successor to the venerable and ubiquitous optical format. As a part of my argument, I pointed to the arrival of the CD and its comparison with the phonograph record format. “The disc was convenient and smaller […]

Enterprise Storage RAID Price War Set to Erupt with Intels New ICH5R Chip According to industry sources, Intel earlier informed its motherboard clients that it would release two south-bridge chips, the ICH5 and ICH5R, for its upcoming 865 (Springdale) chipsets. Of the two, the ICH5R is the one supporting RAID 0 function. Despite its simple […]

Neowin.net is reporting that Microsoft has turned on the code that will enable the “information rights management” in Office 2003 Beta 2. (Microsoft is expected to begin shipping the beta to testers next week.) The Neowin folks also include some interesting screen shots, including this one, which shows what will happen to users who do […]

Storage Networks Inc., the once-popular service provider turned software company, is the latest storage firm up for sale. “We anticipate that our Board of Directors will be required to focus significant energy and time working with our investment bankers and other advisors to identify and assess opportunities to maximize shareholder value,” CEO Paul Flanagan said, […]

Elpida Memory, Inc. and Powerchip Semiconductor Corp. (PSC) today finalized their DRAM alliance. The complicated arrangement calls for Elpida to buy 0.15-and 0.13-micron products from PSC beginning in March 2003, while PSC will produce products at a later time useing the Elpida 0.10/0.09-micron process. PSC can develop products using Elpidas latest process technologies, but must […]

“Dont the carriers,” said the senior vice president of a top-tier cell phone manufacturer. Invoking the presence of a Scorsese thug, he thus educated me in one of his secrets to success in the business. Indeed, fear of being bleeped by Microsoft has made it tough for the company to get its embedded platforms […]