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John Halamka has more data than ever before. However, unlike in the past, hes not going to focus on getting more storage hardware when he files his 2003 capital budget in October. The seven-person storage staff working for Halamka, CIO of CareGroup Healthcare Systems, in Boston, administers 40 terabytes of transaction data per day on […]

As Microsoft Corp. prepares to release the first beta for Office 11, the next version of its pervasive Office productivity suite, Jeff Raikes, its group vice president of productivity and business services, sat down with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli at the companys Mountain View, Calif., campus to talk about the changes users can expect […]

EMC Corp. announced a patent infringement lawsuit against its rival Hewlett Packard Co. on Monday, some six hours after HP announced its suing EMC for the same thing. HP officials, in Palo Alto, Calif., first alleged that EMCs Symmetrix and Clariion hardware and TimeFinder software infringe on seven of HPs patents for data transmission, data […]

Hewlett Packard Co. is suing EMC Corp. for seven alleged patent infringements. A spokesman for HP, which became a top-tier storage firm earlier this year with its buyout of Compaq Computer Corp., said EMCs Symmetrix and Clariion hardware and its TimeFinder volume imaging software infringe on HPs patents for data transfer, data reading/writing and storage […]

Storage Technology Corp. next week will announce new versions of its flagship disk array and of its top tape drive, and will also unveil plans for a new disk archiving product. The company, better known as StorageTek, on Tuesday will roll out the D280 array, manufactured by LSI Logic Corp.s Storage Systems group. It will […]

Users of storage-area networks will get a slew of new switching options to choose from in October, with promises of even more to come. McData Corp., the market share leader in high-end switches, will launch the Intrepid 6140, a 140-port product, on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Broomfield, Colo., company said. McDatas current high-end switch, […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will roll out its fastest processors yet, the Athlon XP 2800+ and 2700+, during a news conference on Tuesday, according to sources close to the company. The new chips, in addition to running at higher frequencies than the current top-of-the-line 2600+, will feature a 333MHz front side bus, which should enable […]

EMC Corp., having failed in its attempts so far to directly trade application programming interfaces with arch rival Hitachi Ltd., is stepping up its efforts to obtain them indirectly. EMC, of Hopkinton, Mass., has bid $2.5 million to acquire intellectual property from Sanrise Inc., a storage service provider that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection […]

EMC Corp. on Wednesday announced its acquisition of midrange storage software maker Prisa Networks Inc. for $20 million. Prisa, of San Diego, has a product for storage-area network topology mapping, VisualSAN. VisualSAN also has a remote support component and a software developers kit. Officials of EMC were not immediately available for comment. However, CEO and […]

LOS ANGELES—Michael Capellas, ex-chairman of Compaq Computer Corp. who became president of Hewlett-Packard Co. after his company was bought out in May, on Wednesday asserted his credentials and sought to win over concerned customers in his first appearance at HP World. Using a panel-discussion format rather than giving his scheduled keynote address, Capellas nonetheless became […]

Microsoft Corp. is weighing a plan to add a new milestone to its Windows road map. According to developers close to the Redmond, Wash., company, a proposal to deliver a Windows Yukon release—timed to tide over Microsoft and its users until the long-awaited Longhorn debuts—is on the companys drawing boards. Microsoft executives have held fast […]

LOS ANGELES—Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman Carly Fiorina said recent strategic moves by rival computer makers provides validation for her controversial decision to buy Compaq Computer Corp. for about $19 billion in a deal completed in May. “Today we are in a much better position to serve you than we were a year ago,” Fiorina said in […]