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Network testing tools maker Finisar Corp. on Wednesday will announce SAN QoS 2.0, officials said. “It basically allows you to collect data on a link, and it allows you to connect statistical data,” explained Bob Otis, vice president of engineering at the Sunnyvale, Calif., company. The half-rack system, previously in version 1.1, has new features […]

Veritas Software Corp. on Wednesday will announce SANPoint Control 3.5, which will expand the catalog of applications and hardware the storage resource management product can manage. SRM tools discover, manage and provision the actual disks, volumes, switches and others components in a storage-area network. Some analysts have said that SRM is Veritas weakest product line, […]

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Web services standards have the potential to reignite enterprise IT investment: They offer the prospect of greater flexibility for buyers, competition among vendors and rapid savings on internal application integration. (See the eWeek Labs report on Web services.) But these bright prospects are threatened by—what else?—a looming standards war. Recent reports of an opening rift […]

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Maxtor Corp. last week continued its aggressive rollout of hard drives, unveiling the MaxLine series, which features ATA drives tailored for enterprise users. The announcement came the same day the Milpitas, Calif., company launched two server drives. ATA drives, traditionally consumer-class, have begun finding their way into business-class products from such vendors as EMC Corp., […]

As Microsoft Corp. prepares to unleash new software over the next year, including the Windows .Net Server 2003 family, the next version of its Office productivity suite and three server infrastructure applications, Jim Allchin, group vice president for platforms at the Redmond, Wash., company, sat down with eWeek Senior Editor Peter Galli in San Jose, […]

Worldcom Hunts for a New CEO Bankrupt and in trouble with the feds, WorldCom is looking for a new CEO. The current top executive, John Sidgmore, said in a statement last week that his appointment was intended to be temporary when he assumed the post in April, after Bernard Ebbers stepped down amid a $7 […]

With the goal of thwarting hackers, Intel Corp. last week unveiled a security initiative, code-named LaGrande Technology, that it will integrate into future processors and chip sets to stymie efforts to steal data. Many computer users rely on data encryption to protect information transmitted over the Internet or via phone lines, but such protection offers […]

The Slapper worm continued to spread quickly over the weekend, with some security experts putting the number of compromised servers as high as 6,000. As first reported by eWeek on Friday, the worm attacks Linux machines running the Apache Web server software with the OpenSSL tools installed. It exploits a buffer overrun vulnerability in the […]

Oracle Corp. and the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) have separately announced plans to roll out new IT certification designations. Oracle said that in October it will launch an application server certification program, to be called the Oracle 9iAS Web Administrator Certified Associate. Meanwhile, ComTIA said it plans next year to launch a vendor-neutral certification, […]

Intel Corp. on Monday released its fastest mobile processor yet, a 2.2GHz mobile Pentium 4-M, and 10 other mobile chip upgrades targeted for use in full-size, mini- and sub-notebooks as well as the emerging market for Tablet PCs. The new processors range across Intels extensive line of mobile offerings, and include low-voltage and ultra-low-voltage Pentium […]