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U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotellys recent endorsement of much of the agreement reached between the U.S. Department of Justice and Microsoft Corp. lifts many clouds from the companys future. Now Microsoft, under the leadership of CEO Steve Ballmer, is free to turn its attention to such initiatives as acquisitions, .Net, shared source code and […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. will announce two storage management products and details of its future interoperability plans this week, officials said. HP will unveil OpenView CASA (Continuous Access Storage Appliance), a renamed upgrade to the StorageApps sv3000 virtualization product, and OpenView SMO (Storage Media Operations), which automates removable media management, according to officials in Palo Alto, Calif. […]

Despite promising lower cost and easier configuration, IP storage has had difficulty gaining a foothold in the enterprise. But the tide may be turning as vendors such as QLogic Corp. and others ready IP-based options that ease the transition to the fledgling protocol. The products tread where others, notably Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM, have […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. will announce two new storage management products and details of its future interoperability plans this week. One product, OpenView Continuous Access Storage Appliance, is a renamed upgrade to the companys StorageApps sv3000 virtualization product; the other new product, OpenView Storage Media Operations, automates removable media management, officials said. OpenView CASA now has asynchronous […]

The following memo from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is the latest in an ongoing series of e-mails from Microsoft executives to customers about important issues facing consumers, business, industry and Microsoft itself. The memo, sent on Wednesday afternoon, focuses on how Microsofts role in the technology industry will change now that the antitrust suit has […]

IBM on Wednesday announced capacity and speed upgrades for its mid-range enterprise storage and its low-end network-attached storage, officials said. The changes are routine annual hardware upgrades, said product manager David Vaughn. IBMs TotalStorage FAStT 200, 500, and 700 models will have new 146.8GB drives, shipping Nov. 22. That doubles the systems capacity to 9TB […]

Network-attached storage specialist Network Appliance Inc. announced on Tuesday $15.8 million of profit for the second quarter of fiscal year 2003, with $215.2 million of revenue. Compared to last quarter, thats down from income of $16.2 million but up from revenue of $206.8 million. “We are encouraged by our growth during this quarter despite constrained […]

Vendors are readying products to support RDMA over TCP/IP, a fledgling networking technology wending its way through standards bodies promising faster data transfers with less processor power. Remote direct memory addressing over IP lets hardware devices share data directly among their respective memory chips, easing CPUs processing burden. Specifically, information being passed does not require […]

Olympics Testing Labs Opened The start of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, is more than a year and a half away, but Schlumberger is already out of the blocks and has started the first leg of its race to provide IT services for the quadrennial spectacle. The systems integrator last week officially opened […]

Markets crash, animals attack and pervasive fads are suddenly out of favor. Catastrophe theorists offer controversial models that try to explain such changes; Microsoft Office may soon provide a convincing demonstration of their ideas. Buyers of Microsofts ubiquitous suite, already vexed by costly license terms, may decide theyve had enough after the companys Halloween surprise: […]

Microsoft Corp. is adding features to its .Net Server 2003 and Server Appliance Kit 3.0 with an eye toward the high-end storage space. When it comes out early next year, Windows .Net Server 2003 will be bootable from a SAN (storage area network)—enabling users to reboot it remotely if it goes down—and will have new […]

Users looking to improve interoperability and performance of SANs may find help in testing tools unveiled last week by two established vendors. Agilent Technologies Inc.s 1730 SAN Tester checks for variables such as line speed, error rates and port performance. The 1730 builds on the Palo Alto, Calif., companys experience in Fibre Channel chips and […]