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E-Book Explores Authentication Do you have questions about authentication and security? If so, Rainbow eSecurity believes it has the answers. Rainbow eSecurity, a Rainbow Technologies company, last week unveiled an online book designed to provide readers with a thorough education on authentication technologies—what is available and how they can be used—and case studies on how […]

Finisar Corp. is upgrading its storage testing tool to let it evaluate multiple network segments simultaneously. SAN QoS 2.0 is a half-rack system with new features for alarms and thresholds, plus the logging of physical layer events. The product is for Windows systems; support for Solaris will come in November, said Bob Otis, vice president […]

Microsoft is inching closer to its expected October launch of its MSN 8 Internet service, as documented by testers who recently obtained the newest beta release and posted some of the screen shots to the Web. Microsoft delivered Beta 2 of MSN 8 on Sept. 17, company officials confirmed. Beta 2 went to a “limited” […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday released color printers targeted at winning over businesses that traditionally relied on black-and-white systems for the bulk of their printing needs because of performance and manageability concerns. HP, based in Palo Alto, Calif., contends its latest color systems produce pages as quickly as many businesses existing black-and-white systems, and that new […]

Tape systems vendor Advanced Digital Information Corp. is expanding its push into storage management software beginning later this month. The Redmond, Wash., company on Sept. 30 will launch StorNext 2.1, with new application support and quality-of-service enhancements. “Weve added user quotas, weve added some additional abilities for the application to … actually reserve bandwidth,” said […]

To help users minimize storage administration costs, Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday announced it has bought start-up Pirus Networks Inc. in an undisclosed stock-swap deal. Pirus, of Acton, Mass., makes a 6U appliance that virtualizes any combination of Fibre Channel or Ethernet connections into groups, and converts them to Fibre Channel, Ethernet or InfiniBand connections […]

What is the eWEEK eXcellence Awards program?The eXcellence Awards program provides enterprise IT professionals with a comprehensive assessment of best-in-class product and service innovations that create efficiencies, enhance performance and provide competitive edge. Vendors are invited to nominate new and forthcoming enterprise-class products and services, which are judged for innovation, suitability to task, interoperability, extensibility […]

MINNEAPOLIS—Microsoft Corp.s Business Solutions division is preparing a first beta release of its B2B partner-networking software—Microsoft Business Network—for delivery in October, with the final product expected in the first quarter of next year. MBN, a product developed by the Great Plains Software team within Microsoft Business Solutions, is a kind of electronic data interchange network […]

MINNEAPOLIS—Microsoft continued to add to its growing stable of applications software on Tuesday by adding two new “industry solutions” to its Microsoft Business Solutions portfolio. At its Stampede 2002 reseller conference here this week, Microsoft unveiled a Professional Services Automation (PSA) and point-of-sale Retail Management System to its Great Plains/Navision/bCentral family of products and services. […]

EMC Corp. on Wednesday rolled out a host of new and enhanced software offerings, including new storage resource management software, a new Web-based performance tuning service and upgrades to six existing products. The main new product, called Automated Resource Manager, or ARM, is provisioning software based on policies. It will be available in the next […]

RLX Technologies Inc., which introduced its first blade server in May 2001, announced its fourth-generation design Monday, the ServerBlade 1200i, which offers 50 percent more processing power and twice as much memory capacity as the 800i released in March. In addition to hardware improvements, RLX also announced the release of new management software, Control Tower […]

IBM and Intel Corp. announced Tuesday that the two high-tech giants have joined forces to develop enterprise-class ultradense servers, called blades, which will be based on Intel Xeon and Itanium processors. The new servers will be more powerful than existing blade offerings, which primarily rely on low-power processors. While such slower-running chips run cooler and […]