eWEEK EDITORS

As the 108th session of Congress ramps up, legislators have a multitude of opportunities to influence the IT we use. Thirteen bills affecting privacy, free speech and digital liberties are before the House and Senate (according to the Electronic Privacy Information Center at www.epic.org/privacy/bill_track.html). With so many decisions ahead, lawmakers and lobbyists need to be […]

Object-based storage and ATA disks are perhaps the most intriguing of the new storage technologies emerging from the convergence of network-attached storage and storage area networks. But both concepts are rife with problems that still need to be overcome. Object storage refers to data tracked with attributes and metadata, instead of with a file system, […]

Storage administrators running Windows hosts will get widespread support from backup vendors for Microsoft Corp.s upcoming Windows .Net Server 2003. Veritas Software Corp., BakBone Software Inc. and CommVault Systems Inc. are each readying support for the servers main new storage feature called VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service). Announced last fall, VSS will enable users to […]

Enterprise Storage Lustre Among the First Object-Based Storage Systems One soon-to-be-released incarnation of object-based storage is Lustre, an open-source file system thats under development by Cluster File Systems. Lustre, which is short for Linux Cluster, is a file system that can serve storage systems with tens of thousands of nodes and move hundreds of gigabytes […]

Storage component maker Vixel Corp. announced Monday a new version of its switch-on-a-chip product, which promises cheaper array prices and better SAN reliability for customers of midrange storage arrays. The chip is a switched-architecture microchip that connects individual drives in parallel inside arrays. The new version has 20 ports, versus just 12 before, to accommodate […]

Enterprise Storage Firefly Powers Down Disk DrivesWe have ecologically friendly cars, so why not environmentally friendly storage devices? Thats what executives at a company called Asaca say they have designed with their new Firefly DM series, a disk-based library for backup that uses no robotics and can power-on or power-down at the flick of a […]

D-Link Systems Inc.s five-mode DWL-900AP+ is not just another drably clothed, cheap and effective 802.11b access point. Its also a lot faster than your average drably clothed, cheap and effective 802.11b access point. According to D-Link, the DWL-900AP+, based on Texas Instruments WLAN chip set, is 20 percent faster than standard 802.11bs stated rate of […]

Storage switch maker McData Corp. reported positive earnings today for its fourth quarter of 2002. McData earned revenue of $105.5 million in the quarter, with a profit of $8.6 million, compared to $80.9 million in revenue and a $ 2.3 million profit in the third quarter, officials of the Broomfield, Colo., vendor said. McData didnt […]

Tape library vendor Overland Storage Inc. will expand its presence in the nascent storage resource management field later this month. The company will ship Overland Storage Resource Manager 3.1, as a “major rewrite” from the 2.1 edition of last summer, said John Cloyd, vice president and general manager of Overlands Storage Management business unit. A […]

EMC Corp. Thursday announced a $64 million loss on $1.49 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2002, and a $199 million loss on $5.44 billion in revenue for the whole year. That compares to a $51 million loss with $1.26 billion in revenue during the prior quarter, and a $508 million loss on […]

NEW YORK— Linux is here to stay, and IBM plans to keep putting money and resources behind the open-source operating system to make sure it does, said Steve Mills, IBM senior vice president and group executive in charge of IBM software, during his Thursday morning LinuxWorld Expo keynote here. “Were in the game for keeps,” […]

Hard drives and direct-attached storage cabling are notoriously tedious to install, but two industry groups are now working together to simplify that. Next year, the SCSI Trade Association—which evolved from an earlier working group developing the serial-attached Small Computer System Interface—and the Serial ATA Working Group, which works on the replacement for the older parallel […]