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We were getting spammed to death! We hadnt practiced good e-mail address practices in the past and now some users were getting blasted with 20 or more spams a day and over 50 during the weekends. Spam became an issue at management and IT meetings. We had to do something. Many users Inboxes became almost […]

Enterprise Storage The Advantages of Near-Line Storage Talk about storage, and those in the industry will extol the virtues of iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NAS, SAN and all manner of big, networked storage platforms. Chances are they wont mention near-line storage. Despite a consistent level of spending on new, often centralized storage among businesses, near-line devices […]

U.S.-based IT professionals can expect to encounter increasing competition this year for jobs and project assignments from providers of offshore IT services, according to a recently-released report from San Jose, Calif.-based Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner, Inc. The Dataquest survey indicated that while only about 5 percent of the 917 U.S.-based companies surveyed are […]

UltraBac Software and Lockstep Systems Inc. each released new backup software this week for mid-size companies and enterprise workgroups. UltraBac 7.0.3 is more secure, faster, and easier to configure than prior versions, said Paul Bunn, CTO of UltraBac, a Bellevue, Wash., division of BEI Corp. “At the core of every agent, is the ability to […]

Dear Career Coach: I have worked for a tech company for five years. Beginning a year ago my company has been through very hard times. They have reduced staff by as much as 85 percent. I have a very good working relationship with the CIO and president, and I think this is why I am […]

Enterprise Storage IP Storage Standard Set to Roll The long-delayed iSCSI standard is set to gain Internet Engineering Task Force approval within weeks, which means its “put up or shut up” time for vendors that have cited its incompleteness as justification for failing to support the IP storage specification in their arrays. Despite a flurry […]

Hitachi Ltd. announced a high-end storage upgrade Wednesday, while IBM is planning high-end and midrange upgrades next month. Hitachi Data Systems 148TB Lightning 9900V systems were announced last May, but originally shipped with just 73GB drives. They now ship with 146GB drive options, according to officials of the companys storage division, in Santa Clara, Calif. […]

Veritas Software Corp. increased its revenue to $405 million but lost $48.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2002, while Quantum Corp. earned $229 million and narrowed its losses to $15 million for its third quarter of 2003, officials of each company said today. For storage software specialist Veritas, of Mountain View, Calif, the figures […]

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Dear Kevin Mitnick: First, let me explain why I havent written to you sooner. I realize youve been out of the joint for three years now—after serving five years on that hacking beef—so I cant pretend I havent had an opportunity to reach out. Its just that, as you know, youve been forbidden to go […]

Siebel CEO Gives Back Options As Siebel Systems reported sliding sales and a fourth-quarter loss last week, the companys founder and CEO, Tom Siebel, said he had given back options to buy nearly 26 million shares of Siebel stock. The value of the shares to Tom Siebel would have been about $56 million. The CEO, […]

The World Wide Web Consortium is a driving force behind the Webs interoperability and evolution. Founded in 1994 by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, the group has 450 member organizations worldwide. Since its inception, the W3C has developed standards such as XML and P3P. eWEEK Labs Senior Writer Anne Chen recently spoke with Berners-Lee, in Cambridge, […]