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Recently, Sun Microsystems Inc. hosted its annual analyst conference in San Francisco. The company faces high-end competition from IBM Global Services and low-end competition from companies including Dell Computer Corp. offering clustered systems running the Linux operating system. While not dismissive of the threats posed by the competition, Sun President Scott McNealy in a one-hour […]

Enterprise Storage Windows 2003 Server and NAS 3.0 To Challenge Network Appliance Will Microsoft give Network Appliance a run for its money when it releases Windows 2003 Server and Windows Powered Network Attached Storage (NAS) 3.0 later this year? According to prominent analyst Ashok Kumar of Piper Jaffray, Microsofts offerings represent a serious challenge to […]

Palm Inc. on Monday warned that its third-quarter fiscal 2003 results will be lower than expected because of weak demand for its high-end Tungsten line of handheld computers. Revenues now are expected to be between $205 million and $210 million, versus the $230 million to $250 million that the Milpitas, Calif., company predicted in December. […]

Sony Electronics Inc. Monday announced new low-end tape drives for remote users and small businesses. As part of the StorStation family, an external model called AITe90-UL connects to servers and workstations with USB or Firewire, while two internal models, AITi90-A/S and AITi130-A/S, connect via ATAPI ports, officials said. Compared to backing up with recordable CDs, […]

Users of EMC Corp. hardware will soon get earlier and certified access to new Veritas Software Corp. management tools, based on an updated partnership. The deal also means EMC and Veritas can now support each others products, officials said Monday. For connecting EMCs high-end Symmetrix, midrange Clariion and network-attached Celerra hardware to Veritas File System, […]

Enterprise Storage Cisco oo Take Spinnaker NAS for a Spin? According to reports, about nine months ago, Cisco Systems considered incorporating NAS technology from Spinnaker Networks into its MDS 9000 series of Fibre Channel switches. But the company has since backed off this idea, according to a Byte and Switch report. Word that Cisco had […]

Security in the Web Technology products are increasingly vulnerable to attack, says a recent Symantec report. The Internet security firm documented 2,524 new vulnerabilities last year, 82% more than in 2001. One reason for the uptick may be the proliferation of Web applications, which by their nature have vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely. Because […]

EMC Corp. today announced immediate availability of upgrades for its Symmetrix 5.x hardware family, to support features not yet in the newer Symmetrix 6.0, officials said. The new Z8000, an upgrade to 5.xs standard 8000 version, is specifically for users connecting to mainframes. The newer and faster 6.0, called DMX, wont have mainframe connectivity with […]

CIOs will continue to keep a lid on hiring of IT staff, at least through the middle of this year, although technology leaders at larger companies are somewhat more upbeat about hiring, according to a survey from a unit of placement firm Robert Half International Inc., of Menlo Park, Calif. Robert Half Technology, which focuses […]

When its advertising and other commercial e-mail sent by Microsoft to your computer, Microsoft argues. The Washington state attorney generals office is up in arms over what it claims is Microsofts backing of a bill that would weaken the states anti-spam laws. Microsoft is pushing other anti-spam options instead, such as new filtering technologies and […]

Texas Memory Systems Inc. Thursday announced a 1TB version of its memory cache for high-performance computing uses. The new hardware, Tera-RamSan, has up to 128 Fibre Channel ports for $1.6 million, officials said. “Where you have 150, 250 gigabytes, thats where you start talking about the sweet range. Its meant to be a scalable product […]

A lawyer representing himself and another individual filed a class action suit against Intuit this week, alleging that the firm misled consumers by including Macrovision SafeCast DRM software. Lawyers for Stanbury Fishelman Inc. of Los Angeles allege Intuit fraudulently concealed the capabilities of safeCast from consumers, and seek damages in the amount of all monies […]