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EMC Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. last week traded patent-infringement lawsuits, claiming their rivals products illegally used technology developed by the other. The lawsuits, which were filed within hours of each other, are the latest salvo in an increasingly bitter competition between the two tech companies, although the two did strike a deal in July to […]

A startup is working on new architecture that will offer something not seen before in large enterprise-class servers—64-bit Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Newisys Inc. is designing products ranging from two-processor, entry-level servers to 32-way, “big iron” systems that it plans to sell to major vendors, such as IBM and Dell Computer Corp., […]

Intel Corp. today announced four desktop chip sets designed to bolster the performance of PCs featuring its Pentium 4 and Celeron microprocessors. Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., is the worlds largest supplier of chip sets, a key PC component that enables the transfer of data between the microprocessor and other system components, such as […]

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EMC Corp. will lay off more than 1,300 workers—or about 7 percent of its global workforce—as it continues to struggle with the IT industry slump. The Hopkinton, Mass., storage giant also announced on Thursday that it expects revenues for the third quarter, which ended Sept. 30, to come in at $1.25 billion, less than the […]

CommVault Systems Inc., a specialist in backup software, on Monday will announce that its expanding its reach into storage management software with a new initiative called QiNetix. The console through which the new products will be administered will be called QNet, said Bob Hammer, president, CEO and chairman of the Oceanport, N.J., company. Initially, QiNetix […]

Network Appliance Inc. on Monday will announce that it is shipping InfiniBand connectivity for the clustering feature of its latest high-end Filer, officials of Network Appliance partner JNI Corp. said on Friday. Network Appliance, of Sunnyvale, Calif., did not discuss the feature in its FAS 900 series launch earlier this week. The new HCA (host […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. warned that it will post a higher than expected loss for the third quarter, blaming continued weak demand for its PC processors and price cuts it has had to make in order to unload rising inventories of unsold chips. Sales for the quarter, which ended Sunday, totaled about $500 million, well […]

Veritas Software Corp.s chief financial officer resigned today because he lied about having a masters degree in business administration from Stanford University, officials said. “I regret this misstatement of my educational background. Under the circumstances, I believe my resignation is in the best interests of both the company and myself,” Ken Lonchar, the outgoing CFO […]

IBM on Wednesday unveiled its smallest commercial desktop, the NetVista S42, which while measuring about the same size as a collegiate dictionary offers largely the same functionality as its heftier brethren. “The NetVista S42 desktop is exactly what businesses need for tight office space and was created as a direct result of listening to our […]

The following memo from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is the second 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 what Microsoft is doing to maintain and deepen customer connections. A couple of months ago, […]

SANS/FBI Top 20 Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities: Top Vulnerabilities to Windows Systems Internet Information Services (IIS) Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) — Remote Data Services Microsoft SQL Server NETBIOS — Unprotected Windows Networking Shares Anonymous Logon — Null Sessions LAN Manager Authentication — Weak LM Hashing General Windows Authentication — Accounts with No Passwords […]