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Craig Conway, President and CEO of PeopleSoft Inc., in Pleasanton, Calif., has a lot of company these days. When he made a bet in 1999 to embrace the concept of the real-time enterprise—using the Internet as a companys business underpinning—he was nearly alone among vendor executives. Now, you cant find a vendor that isnt talking […]

A 3-week-old storage management coalition has disbanded, its members citing the publics confusion between their group and an even newer organization from the Storage Networking Industry Association. Without ever giving themselves a formal name, a coalition of Hitachi Ltd., IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Veritas Software Corp. launched Oct. 15, mutually promising to ship products […]

Officials at enterprise storage leader EMC Corp. acknowledged the companys role in startup Diligent Technologies Corp. for the first time today, saying EMC sold its Israel-based research and development subsidiary to Diligent in September. The sale gives Diligent ownership of EMCs CopyCross software, which is designed to make disk systems appear as virtual tape systems […]

Microsoft has decided to skip a Windows server release to coincide with the Longhorn client and instead jump directly to Blackcomb, company officials confirmed Friday. Until recently, Microsoft has been talking up plans to synchronize its Windows server and client releases, starting with the next major version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. But with Windows delivery […]

NEW YORK—Adobes PDF document-distribution format may seem entrenched among computing consumers, but that isnt stopping Microsoft from trying to throw its weight behind a competing publishing venture. At its Tablet PC launch here on Thursday, Microsoft provided its first public glimpse of its e-publishing technology, code-named ePeriodicals. At a mini-trade show at the launch, Microsoft […]

Veritas Software Corp. is acquiring from NTP Software Inc. Storage Reporter, a file-based product that tells users details like a files age, backup status, directory size, overall size, owner and type. Veritas will merge Storage Reporter with its own storage resource management software, the block-based SANPoint Control, officials said. “We bought the intellectual property, the […]

IBM has doubled the capacity of its mobile hard drives and is planning faster spin speeds, officials said Wednesday. The new Travelstar 80GN, holding up to 80GB of data, accomplishes its size by using a third layer of magnetic material and a second layer of the chemical ruthenium. The drive will be generally available early […]

As of Thursday, the fate of the Tablet PC is out of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates hands. Unlike one of Gates previous pet projects, the ill-fated Microsoft “Bob” social-computing interface, the success or failure of the Tablet is dependent on the PC vendors and ISVs (independent software vendors) writing the apps that will run on […]

IBM has recombined its server and storage businesses into a single division, following a split two years ago, officials said Wednesday. Bill Zeitler, senior vice president and group executive of IBMs Server Group, will head the new division, said Clint Roswell, spokesman for the Armonk, N.Y., company. “We go to them together as one thing, […]

Storage switch leader Brocade Communications Systems Inc. Tuesday acquired startup Rhapsody Networks Inc., for approximately $175 million in stock, officials said. Rhapsodys architecture, called XPath, converts between Fibre Channel and IP protocols. It also runs network-based management software, which Brocade can merge with resellers products, to better compete against arch rival McData Corp. and storage […]

IT managers who remotely boot servers and rely on the Simple Network Management Protocol will soon get improved error handling, said Cisco Systems Inc. officials. When remote boots fail, they emit error messages, but theyre not the kind needed for SNMP products. To remedy that, Mark Bakke, technical leader of Ciscos storage router unit, this […]