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Enterprise Storage Agere Core Handles Serial Storage Interfaces Agere Systems announced a configurable physical-layer core that can handle three serial storage interfaces. The serializer/deserializer block will support Serial ATA (SATA), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Fibre Channel interfaces for disk drives and host bus controllers when it becomes available in April. By providing a single […]

BEA Systems Inc. next week will hold its annual developer conference in Orlando, Fla., where the company will pay homage to a supportive developer community and announce beta versions of upcoming versions of its next-generation application server platform and other products. BEA last week announced increased revenues and a tripling in profit for its fourth […]

Proprietary Coating to Yield Thinner OLEDs Samsung SDI partnered with Vitex Systems to market displays based on organic light emitting diodes that the two companies claim are 50 percent lower in weight and thickness than any other commercially available display. Vitexs proprietary Barix thin-film coating procedure eliminates the need for a glued-on-metal can or extra […]

After serving 60 months in federal prison and an additional three years on probation following his conviction on wire fraud and other charges, notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick is now back online and back in business. Only this time Mitnick says hes trying to stop hackers. Hes founded a security consulting company, Defensive Thinking Inc., in […]

Veritas Software Corp. Tuesday announced new features for its NetBackup 4.5 software, focused on large-business use. NetBackup 4.5 Feature Pack now has speedier recovery for snapshots, smarter attachment handling for Exchange mailboxes, and more options for disaster recovery reporting, officials said. Snapshots on disks can now be accessed through metadata, versus having to load the […]

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Taking another step in its pursuit of the fast-growing small and medium-size business market, IBM last week unveiled scaled-down versions of its DB2 database management system and products from its Tivoli and Lotus software lines. The products, launched here at IBMs annual PartnerWorld gathering of 3,000 of its reseller, ISV, integrator and other business partners, […]

While some may think we are in yet another winter of technology discontent, there is reason not to be glum: Change is afoot on the server front. This year, blade servers will move into widespread availability, clustering techniques are maturing and grid computing is rapidly becoming real. IT managers should be ready to rethink the […]

Allaire to Join Venture Company Macromedias former chief technology officer, Jeremy Allaire, has landed at General Catalyst Partners. Allaire joins the venture capital company as a technologist in residence, officials said. Allaire announced his intention to leave Macromedia two weeks ago on his Weblog, or blog. Allaire joined Macromedia two years ago when it purchased […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is readying across-the-board product upgrades, as well as a series of storage-related services, in the biggest storage product blitz since the companys acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. last May. The raft of products and services, which will touch IP storage, NAS (network-attached storage) and SANs (storage area networks), will start rolling out this […]

Tips used for Top Tips come from the ExtremeTech forum and are written by our community. Question from nerfhurter “i used partition magic 7 to partition my harddrive but then decided to unpartition it. after doing so, my 40gig is now only 32gig. how can i get my other 8 gig back? “ Answer from […]