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EMC Corp.s latest system, the Clariion CX200, will be equipped and priced as the storage companys most entry-level product yet. For about $30,000, customers will get 2.2 terabytes of capacity made up of 30 Fibre Channel drives, a 1GB cache, Windows and Linux support, 15 hosts, and limited EMC software options. Most of the CX200 […]

If the New England Patriots can win the Super Bowl and the Anaheim Angels can win the World Series, then maybe this is the year for the Tablet PC. Maybe. Microsoft and its partners are betting it is. Microsoft, of course, has waved tablets before our eyes before, but the lukewarm reaction they received indicated […]

Intel Corp. this week plans to release its beefiest Xeon MP processor to date—a 2GHz chip with 2MB of Level 3 on-die memory—and system manufacturers are ready to roll out servers based on the technology. In addition to the 2GHz processor, the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker will release this week two other versions of […]

EDS Earnings Fall; Layoffs Set EDS officials said in September the companys third quarter was going to be difficult. The outsourcer last week posted a net income of $86 million—a 59 percent drop over the same period last year—on declining revenues of $5.41 billion—a 3 percent drop. EDS said it will lay off 3 to […]

Tape library maker SpectraLogic Corp. next week will launch a new product, the Spectra 20000, which will fit into its Gator midlevel and high-end series. Positioned between the Spectra 12000 and 64000, the 20000 can hold 52 terabytes of compressed data on 200 slots of 100GB-capacity, 12MB-per-second, AIT (advanced intelligent tape)-3 cartridges. The robotic library […]

Wyse Technology Inc., which has made its name selling thin clients, is aiming to expand its business beyond its niche through new software, services and hardware, including wireless handheld devices that will operate much like a Tablet PC. The San Jose, Calif., company supplies about 50 percent of all thin clients worldwide—both directly and via […]

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Development tool maker XAware Inc. this week launched a Bluefin kit for storage products. Bluefin is the implementation specification for companies building storage products around the Common Information Model. CIM is a common language in which storage products communicate, so vendors dont have to build translation layers. XAware, a Colorado Springs, Colo., startup, helps storage […]

Microsoft Corp. is taking aim at the high-end storage space with features being implemented in .Net Server 2003 and Server Appliance Kit 3.0. When it comes out early next year, Windows .Net Server 2003 will be bootable from a SAN (storage-area network) and will have new host-bus adapter certifications, said Zane Adam, director of product […]

NEW YORK—On Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. took another step toward delivering its .Net platform that will allow developers, customers and integration partners to write and deploy speech-enabled applications and Web services. Microsoft announced at the SpeechTEK Expo here an early beta, or technical preview, of its .Net Speech Platform, which it will make available to fewer […]

To achieve real-time failover in remote storage-area networks, Sun Microsystems Inc. will resell and support optical routers from Nortel Networks Corp. Sun, of Santa Clara, Calif., has finished six months of qualifying its StorEdge 3900, 6900, and 9900 storage systems, and its Sun Fire 15K server, with Nortels Optera Metro 5200 dense wave-division multiplexer switch, […]