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NEW YORK—Network Appliance Inc., a leader in network-attached storage and a longtime critic of storage area networks, announced Tuesday its first product that can serve both functions. The new FAS900 series, an upgrade to the F-800 series, has a built-in Fibre Channel switch from Brocade Communications Systems Inc. That and various software changes let users […]

Dell Computer Corp. raised its third-quarter sales forecast $200 million to $9.1 billion, attributing its rising revenues to its success in drawing customers away from its rival PC makers amid what is generally viewed as a depressed industry. In a statement issued after the stock markets closed in New York Tuesday, the company, based in […]

Microsoft Corp. thinks its found a killer app for its Tablet PC: as a home for a new breed of electronic magazines. The software giant is prepping an end-to-end electronic publishing solution, known as ePeriodicals, which it will introduce at its Tablet PC launch in New York City on Nov. 7, according to sources. The […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Tuesday announced two faster Athlon processors, but said the chips wont be available until late November, fueling speculation that the early unveiling was spurred by growing pressure from rival Intel Corp., which is set to release a 3GHz Pentium 4 in the coming weeks. In the past year, Intel has […]

Unisys Corp.s new top-of-the-line MCP-based system, the 40-processor ClearPath Plus Libra Model 180, extends the server lines capabilities to adjust performance based on workload demand and to manage multiple operating systems running simultaneously in a single box. The Libra, the successor to the companys NX series, is designed to give customers not only extensive options […]

As a professor of counseling at San Francisco State University and a practicing counselor at San Franciscos Career and Personal Development Institute, Robert Chope has seen firsthand the emotional fallout experienced by hoards of Silicon Valley IT workers who lost their jobs when the dot-coms became, in his words, “dot-compost.” In his book, “Dancing Naked: […]

Enron Assets Sold in Webcast Enron equipment went up for sale last week. The once-mighty energy trading company, which collapsed and filed for bankruptcy following a high-profile accounting scandal, had many of its assets sold during a two-day auction last week by Dovebid.com, an online auction house known for selling the remains of tech companies […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. rolled out a series of printers, a mobile workstation and a $50 million partnership with Microsoft Corp. to promote its .Net Web services initiative at the companys HP World Conference and Expo here last week. But the focus of remarks made by Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina and President and Chief Operating Officer […]

On the eve of the planned unveiling of the national Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, the chairman of the Presidents Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, Richard Clarke, announced the “working draft” would be open to comment for 60 days, rather than being delivered in read-only form. “The process is almost as important” as the document, said Clarke. […]

When Office 11 Beta 1 officially debuts in the next couple of weeks, dont think of it as a desktop application suite. Instead, envision it as Microsofts new “smart client,” and youll have a more accurate picture of how Group Vice President Jeff Raikes and his merry band are attempting to reposition Office. Raikes has […]

StorageTechnology Corp. plans upgrades to disk and tape products, as well as its first foray into the disk archiving space. The company, also known as StorageTek, this week will unveil its D280 array, which is manufactured by LSI Logic Corp.s Storage Systems group, based in Milpitas, Calif., and features 2G-bps Fibre Channel ports. The array […]