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As this years holiday shopping season kicks into high gear, consumers continue to make more and more of their purchases online—about twice as many as they were making two years ago, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Commerces Census Bureau. The study also showed that retail e-commerce sales in the third quarter […]

HP-Compaq Meld Almost Complete Hewlett-Packard expects to complete the integration of Compaq by the end of next October, almost a year ahead of schedule, HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina told investment analysts last week. Fiorina also said the company expects to save $3 billion in operating expenses during the same time span, about $500 […]

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Enterprise Storage EMC Just Looking at Benchmark Test Within two hours of the Storage Performance Council releasing its test specification for scrutiny by non-members such as EMC last week, engineers involved with the companys CLARiiON storage array placed an order for a copy. However, EMC maintained its previous distance from the SPC-1 benchmark, which measures […]

IBM will launch a new midrange storage array in Europe early next year, based on the LSI Logic Corp. E5600 series, sources familiar with the companys plans said. IBM officials, in Armonk, N.Y., declined to comment. However, sources said the new product will be called the FAStT 900, launched at the same starting price—$46,499—that IBM […]

Storage administrators seeking an alternative to EMC Corp. for a high-end network-attached storage gateway to Fibre Channel disks will get a new choice next year from Hitachi Ltd. and Network Appliance Inc. An as-yet unnamed product the two companies are developing will ship early next year and will connect Hitachis midrange Thunder and high-end Lightning […]

After the conclusion of the OpenHack 4 project, eWEEK Labs West Coast Technical Director Timothy Dyck posed questions on enterprise security via e-mail to two of the people who helped harden the test applications: Oracle Corp.s John Abel, principal consultant, Oracle Technical Architecture Group, and Microsoft Corp.s Mike Kass, product manager, .Net Framework. eWEEK: What […]

Alcatel SA has rolled out a new professional certification aimed at network engineers, network administrators and other IT professionals trained to manage the companys new OmniSwitch family of network switches. The new designation is called the Alcatel Certified Switch Professional (ACSP). The company said a CD-based, self-paced training course for the ACSP is available and […]

As part of our OpenHack 4 security test (which ran from Oct. 22, 2002 to Nov. 8, 2002), we are posting a collection of resources created during the test for use by our readers. Here are descriptions and download links for each file archive. 1. IDS and server hardware usage log reports (909 KB).zipThis archive […]

Dear Career Coach: How would you recommend a small business owner hire his first IT employee and start building an IT department? While I feel comfortable defining the scope of the projects that we would like to accomplish over the next three years, I do not feel that I have the technical skills to qualify […]

Hitachi Ltd. today announced a new array series and new storage resource management software. The announcement comes one day after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved the vendors hard-drive division merger with IBM. The new series, called Thunder 9500, is a midrange upgrade to the existing Thunder 9200 systems and will ship in January 2003. […]

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