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Veritas Software Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are among a number of companies planning to roll out storage management products in upcoming months based on the CIM and Bluefin specifications. The plans come at a time when the companies primary trade association, the Storage Networking Industry Association, is gaining control of the two specifications, which […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. this week will launch the industrys first mainstream storage management software based on the Common Information Model specification. CIM is a still-developing standard designed to make storage hardware, software and network connections communicate in the same language, so a product from one vendor theoretically could manage products from another. Suns ESM (Enterprise […]

Businesses thrive on critical, complex applications, which require people to administer them. Now enterprises are talking about the need for software that automates storage management decisions, and some companies, including BMC Software Inc. and Computer Associates International Inc., are working to meet that need. It wont be easy. The software must make decisions based on […]

While hard economic times have pummeled commercial PC sales, enterprise demand for thin clients remains strong. Once belittled as dumb terminals, thin clients, featuring Internet browsers and multimedia capabilities, are now winning over enterprise users. In a move that should help foster further growth in thin-client sales, Wyse Technology Inc., which produces about half of […]

EMC Corp. is considering spinning off a separate backup and storage management software company from its established hardware business. EMC officials believe a separate development company would fare better selling software products not tied to the Hopkinton, Mass., companys hardware, according to sources familiar with the plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The new […]

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In a potentially game-changing move, Hewlett-Packard Co. today announced the first commercial PC from a major U.S. manufacturer to feature an Advanced Micro Devices Inc. processor, a move that will likely have repercussions on Intel Corp. and Dell Computer Corp. The new Compaq D315 is being offered at relatively low $549 (after a $100 rebate) […]

The U.S. military has enlisted IBM to help bolster the nations security by purchasing 66 p690 Regatta servers that will deployed as part of a missile-defense program. The contract, which also includes the sale of an unspecified number of IBM eServer workstations, represents a significant customer win for IBM, which competes against Sun Microsystems Inc. […]

Your last statement revealed much more than the rest of the article on why you made the decision to hire that particular individual: He was the closest candidate to being just like you. I would be willing to bet (and Im not a gambler) that nothing else had as much weight in making your decision. […]

Hard disk maker Maxtor Corp. announced Thursday that it is exiting the NAS (network-attached storage) business. The size of the market and changing industry conditions led to the decision, said Mike Cordano, executive vice president for sales and marketing for the Milpitas, Calif., company. Also, Maxtors product line, called MaxAttach, ended up competing against several […]

Iomega Corp. has begun shipping its new 750MB disk drive, as part of its Zip series. The new drive connects to computers with USB 2.0 ports, features a 7.5MB-per-second transfer rate, and has upgraded backup and synchronization software. It costs $179. The new transfer rate is 50 times faster than a CD-RWs read, write and […]

IBM is in the process of eliminating 15,600 jobs, or about 5 percent of its work force, by the end of next month, the company disclosed in a government filing Tuesday. While the computer maker reportedly has been cutting workers for three months, IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., has refused to reveal how many jobs it […]