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Network Appliance Inc., a leader in high-end network-attached storage products, on Tuesday said that first-quarter revenues jumped more than $6 million over last year, to $206.8 million. Revenues for last quarter were $204.9 million. Net income rose to $18 million for the quarter, up from $4.7 million for the same quarter a year ago. The […]

Storage switching leader Brocade Communications Systems Inc. announced revenues of $151.2 million for the third quarter of 2002, up 12 percent from the prior quarter, and up 30 percent from a year ago, officials said. The San Jose, Calif., company, which is currently engaged in a patent infringement lawsuit with main rival McData Corp., finished […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Tuesday announced that Red Hat Inc., a leading Linux vendor, will support the chipmakers upcoming 64-bit Opteron chip with a special release of its Advanced Server software next year. The 64-bit operating system will also provide support for existing 32-bit applications, taking advantage of one of the most noteworthy features […]

Financial pressures on Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are mounting amid weak sales and falling stock prices, spurring the PC chip makers to initiate a new round of price cuts in the next month in a bid to boost demand. System managers buying new PCs will be able to reap savings of up […]

Green PC Blooms at NEC NEC is taking an ecological view of computing. The companys U.S. subsidiary, NEC Solutions America, last week rolled out what it said is an environmentally friendly PC called the PowerMate Eco. The desktop, an all-in-one, flat-panel system, has a motherboard made with a lead-free solder—to reduce contamination at landfills—and a […]

Anything Microsoft can do to help computer security is welcome. But we wonder whether the latest initiative, dubbed Palladium, is designed to benefit mainly Microsoft or its customers. The Palladium approach—which is only a concept now and years from full development—would create a trusted space in a computer where only trusted agents or applications could […]

EMC Corp. is gearing up to roll out three new versions of its sixth-generation Clariion midrange storage system over the next several months. The first of the three versions, known as the CX600, will be introduced this week, while others will follow at later dates, according to sources familiar with the companys plans. The CX600 […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. last week boosted the performance of its midrange to high-end servers with the integration of its fastest 64-bit processor yet, a 1.05GHz UltraSPARC III. The move came as Hewlett-Packard Co. upgraded its two Unix lines—its two midrange RISC-based servers and the AlphaServer line acquired from Compaq Computer Corp. Suns 64-bit chip, which […]

Read this weeks Spencer column.

Sun Microsystems Inc., in a bid to tap into the burgeoning popularity of Linux, today will unveil a new two-way server featuring the open-source software, an entry-level system that also utilizes processors made by longtime rival Intel Corp. While Sun has previously offered Linux on its low-end Cobalt line of servers—Sun bought Cobalt Networks Inc. […]

I enjoyed your article on the training of CIOs. I also disagree with Gerard Begley, who states that the best IT managers “have good personal attributes, like a high energy level. Theyre good with people, they listen well, see the big picture and arent afraid to make decisions. IQ & EQ will always mean more.” […]

I tend to agree that there does exist the impression that unions are loaded with blue-collar workers. However, what really has always bothered me about unions is that, based on my experience, they promote and raise based on seniority rather than merit—and that simply isnt right. Id gladly employ, and elevate, an expert right out […]