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Enterprise Storage Interview: Veritas Refreshes Backup Exec Veritas this week is expected to launch Backup Exec 9.0, a new version of the software makers venerable and profitable backup product. Meanwhile, the company has also been driving its strategy forward with the acquisitions last year of Precise Software and Jareva Technologies to help expand its management […]

Veritas Software Corp. Wednesday announced Backup Exec 9.0, the first upgrade to the companys popular Windows-based product in 18 months. The new version, which is for Windows and is available now, costs $795 for a basic configuration, and is 88 percent faster than the prior version, 8.6, which launched in summer 2001, officials of the […]

Western Digital Corp. today announced that it is shipping its next-generation 80 Gbyte-per-platter technology, which will produce PC hard drives that can store up to 250 Gbytes. This new hard drive technology adds 25 percent more capacity to Western Digitals existing WD Caviar 200-Gbyte hard drive line, which was based on 67 Gbyte-per-platter technology. WD […]

An upcoming round of Fibre Channel switch upgrades from several vendors should make storage area networks more functional and interoperable for large users. But as built-in features differentiate the new crop of products, users accustomed to bundled offerings could face a more complicated SAN decision. This week, Brocade Communications Systems Inc. will announce new configuration […]

Apple Attacks Suit Settlement With an eye on its big installed base in schools, Apple last week criticized Microsofts $1.1 billion settlement of a California class-action case. As part of the settlement, announced earlier this month, Microsoft said it will give vouchers of $5 to $29 to some consumers who bought its products between 1995 […]

Glancing at the years first personal technology announcements, you might think company names had been swapped. We checked, and it really was Microsoft promoting smart wristwatches and refrigerator magnets in Las Vegas, while Apple was showing portable workstations that raise the bar for untethered enterprise productivity in San Francisco. Were struck by how much these […]

Richard Soley, chairman and CEO of the Object Management Group, oversees the standards bodys efforts to formalize key architectural platforms for new distributed software systems, including Web services. OMG, in Needham, Mass., sets standards such as CORBA, MDA and UML. Soley spoke with eWeek Senior Writer Darryl K. Taft last month for this interview. eWeek: […]

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Enterprise Storage Brocade Co-Founder Pushes San for the Masses Believing that the current cost of storage area network (SAN) installations are too high to attract small businesses, Kumar Malavalli, co-founder of storage-switch provider Brocade Communications Systems, has invested in what he calls an “ecosystem” of eight companies that are developing low-cost and high-performance SAN technologies […]

Benefiting from an increase in services revenues—mostly due to the addition of PricewaterhouseCoopers consulting business—IBM reported a 7 percent jump in fourth-quarter revenue and better-than-expected earnings from continuing operations. Net earnings of $1.02 billion, or $1.11 per share, however, were dragged down by $614 million in acquisition-related charges and were down 56 percent compared to […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. storage customers will hear about several minor upgrades beginning next Tuesday at the companys ENSA@Work conference in Amsterdam, officials said. The changes are all normal cycle upgrades and feature enhancements. Entry-level customers will see improvements to the StorageWorks Modular SAN Array 1000, which now supports multi-cluster servers, and has capacity of 6TB, up […]

Enterprise Storage Sun to Put Pirus Switches Inside Arrays Sun Microsystems is planning to integrate the data services platform it gained with the purchase of smart storage switching start-up Pirus Networks with what it described as large scale disk arrays. The data services platform developed by Pirus is a device which can host a variety […]