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Storage managers with diverse hardware environments have a new administration option, BrightStor SAN Manager, released by Computer Associates International Inc. on Tuesday. The products interface is geared for mid-level staff. “It doesnt have to be your senior-level SAN experts doing this. In major corporations, theres usually one or two people who are senior… thats not […]

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Formichelli Rides Herd at Gateway Hard-hit PC maker Gateway is starting the new year with a new executive vice president of operations. Joe Formichelli, a 30-year industry veteran whose résumé includes stints as vice president of worldwide systems operations at IBM and vice president and general manager of Toshibas Computer Systems Group, took over the […]

The examination of content management services by eWeek Labs in this issue should inspire both buyers and sellers of enterprise IT to think about what might trigger the next wave of productive technology investment. For decades, the industry has been driven by Moores Law, which predicts doubling device counts every 18 months and the price/performance […]

Technology officers have always cared about the components used in servers, but with the industry focus on distributed and mobile computing, those technologies hardware parts can be equally important. As a result, top-tier vendors such as IBM and Hitachi Ltd. and specialists such as EZQuest Inc. are developing new hard drives for specialty uses. Hitachi […]

Enterprise Storage Vendor Pushes Disk Backup Over Tape At the RBC Capital Markets SAN Conference last week, another storage vendor made the scene with its own approach toward using disk as a replacement for tape backup. Alacritus Software is attempting to knock tape out of its position as king of the backup media hill with […]

Customers of Sun Microsystems Inc.s storage hardware now have three new Fibre Channel switching options. The new switches, all with 2G-bps throughput, are Brocade Communications Systems Inc.s 8-port SilkWorm 3200, 16-port SilkWorm 3800, and 128-port SilkWorm 12000, officials said. They work with Suns own midrange hardware—the StorEdge 3900, 6900, T3, and A5200—and with Hitachi Ltd.s […]

StorageNetworks Inc. laid off half of its employees this week, and CEO, president and co-founder Peter Bell has quit, officials said. The companys workforce is now at “approximately 110,” according to a statement released by the Waltham, Mass., company. Paul Flanagan, COO and formerly CFO, takes over Bells role, the statement said. Company officials did […]

Enterprise Storage Cisco, IBM To Pair Up For SAN Solutions IBM and Cisco Tuesday extended their relationship to bring open storage networking products to enterprise customers. Under the terms of the agreement, which were not made public, IBM and its partners will have the ability to offer customers Ciscos MDS 9000 Family products, beginning with […]

As a senior U.S.-born database administrator, with the most in-demand skills (Oracle DBA, Java, JSP [Java server pages], SQL, PL/SQL, more) and no job for two years—not only worried about myself, but my son losing his house (he followed me into IT), I want to thank you. The one thing I think many people miss, […]

A draft specification for how future IP storage hardware will boot up encountered an obstacle this week: Microsoft security. The document, “Bootstrapping Clients Using the iSCSI Protocol,” was voted down by the Internet Engineering Steering Groups IP Storage Working Group. The vote was nine to two, with an abstention by renowned AT&T Corp. security expert […]