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Daniel Warmenhoven, CEO of Network Appliance Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., took charge of the company in 1994 and has led NetApp to a prominent role in NAS products. Now NetApp is poised to embark on a new strategy that includes SAN products as well. Warmenhoven, who was with IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. and served as […]

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Survey: Spam Costs Add Up Dealing with the spam that floods workers e-mail in-boxes can cost companies lots of money. Thats from an internal study conducted by Activis. The managed security services company surveyed employees in its offices worldwide to find out how much time they spent reading, forwarding and deleting spam. Executives also tried […]

Storage Technology Corp. this month is shipping a major upgrade to its core V960 Shared Virtual Array product. The upgrade, the V2X Shared Virtual Array, boasts higher disk usage rates than the V960, plus RAID 6 and Fibre Channel drives, instead of the V960s older SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) drives, said Mike Kelly, director of […]

Worldwide server sales fell for the sixth straight quarter, declining 16 percent from a year ago to $10.5 billion in the second quarter, according to study released today by International Data Corp. Hewlett-Packard Co., thanks to its acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp., tied IBM as the leader in market share, each with 27.8 percent, marking […]

In a previous column, I commented that I really didnt seek out certification credentials when I was recruiting to fill a position. With the launch of eWEEK.coms new IT certification and training site, Cert Central, it seems like an appropriate time to discuss this further. All things being equal (and they never are), being certified […]

With little fanfare, Microsoft Corp. has shuttered its BizTalk.Org XML schema warehouse. According to a mid-July posting to the XML-dev list maintained by the OASIS standards organization, Microsoft execs claimed the ubiquity of the XML data format, coupled with the preponderance of other XML schema repositories, eliminated the need for BizTalk.Org. The BizTalk.Org page now […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. Thursday issued a gloomy assessment for the current quarter and a darker outlook for the future as the companys chief financial officer warned that the market for its high-end servers may decline even further. “Weve not seen any improvement in the current IT spending environment. In fact, some would say it might […]

IBM Thursday announced that General Motors Corp. will purchase 10 of its most powerful server, the 32-way p690, which will be linked together to form a supercomputing infrastructure to power the car makers vehicle design applications. The deal marks another high-profile win for IBMs p690, also known by the code name Regatta, which debuted in […]

Although Apple Computer Inc.s newly available Power Mac G4 Server and its Xserve computer cost the same in their base configurations there are differences between the two models. The Power Mac G4 Server, a tower-configured server that became available this week from Apple online and retail stores, has at least five significant differences compared with […]

IBMs Tivoli software division has acquired privately owned storage startup TrelliSoft Inc., officials of both companies announced Thursday. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, gives IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., a technology base for the SRM (storage resource management) niche, which Tivoli has been developing internally for several months. TrelliSoft, of Glen Ellyn, Ill., makes an […]

A year ago, the Department of Computer and Information Systems at Georgia State Universitys J. Mack Robinson College of Business was on top of the world. Spurred by government reports of an insatiable industry demand for IT professionals, student interest surged. The departments enrollment last fall was 2,750, making it one of the largest IT […]