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To improve its data trafficking functions, up-and-coming storage management maker FalconStor Software Inc. on Tuesday bought IP Metrics Software Inc. for $2.5 million. “Its meant to extend our high availability offerings, from storage to the IP connection. We have a very broad roadmap,” said ReiJane Huai, chairman and CEO of FalconStor, whose main suite is […]

Intel Corp. CEO Craig Barrett will give a company-wide address at the same time the chipmaker holds its quarterly earnings call with financial analysts this afternoon, spurring speculation that the company may announce layoffs to offset lackluster sales of its PC processors. Word that Barrett would speak to workers today was first publicly disclosed in […]

QLogic Corp., which makes storage switches and host bus adapters, last week rolled out software to help users manage both products at once. SANsurfer Tool Kit will let customers administer QLogic switches and HBAs in a SAN (storage area network) from a single interface. The tool kits set of APIs allows third-party developers to write […]

Nervous WorldCom Enterprise customers couldnt have been reassured by CEO John Sidgmores recent statement that the chances of a major service-level drop were low following news of $3.8 billion in accounting irregularities and the collapse of WorldComs share price to well below the cost of a pay phone call. IT managers who signed on with […]

Ebay to Buy Paypal Service It didnt come as the biggest surprise, but online auction house eBay last week said it was purchasing online payment company PayPal in a stock swap worth about $1.5 billion. PayPal is a way for users to make payments online. Widely used by many eBay customers, PayPals principal competition came […]

Intel Corp. is seeking to boost the sagging sales of its Pentium 4 processors by moving up the release of a 2.8GHz chip from next quarter to this summer. In addition to raising the bar for its fastest chip from 2.53GHz to 2.8GHz, the Santa Clara, Calif., company is considering additional price cuts this quarter […]

Summertime, and summer memories, make offline storage management more personal—and more vital—than ever before. That digital camera, if not paired with a removable-media recorder, is the first step toward a disk crash that wipes out data wed hate to lose. For reasons of disk capacity, as well as storage safety, we need some kind of […]

Hard drive capacity improvements routinely emerge from research laboratories, but with users saying there is enough capacity, the development focus is shifting to reliability. Anti-vibration technology is the latest such effort from IBM. The companys Storage Technology Division, in San Jose, Calif., last week announced the Ultrastar 146Z10, a 146GB server drive that includes anti-vibration […]

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Seeking to boost sagging sales, Advanced Micro Devices Monday raised the performance of its notebook processors with the release of a mobile Athlon XP 1800+, with a frequency of 1.53GHz. In conjunction with the release, Hewlett-Packard Co. announced two new consumer products that will feature the chip, the Pavilion ZE1250 notebook, available in U.S. retail […]

IBMs main business-class storage products have the capacity. Now the company is looking to increase its speed. The Armonk, N.Y., company on Monday announced a major upgrade to its main business-class storage product, the Enterprise Storage System 800 and 800 Turbo, focusing on speed, officials said. The new servers dont increase ESS capacity, which remains […]

The Liberty Alliance Project on Monday finally announced the launch of its 1.0 specification for identity management, and a slew of the alliances members also announced plans to support the specification in new products or future versions of existing products. The specification, unveiled at the Burton Groups Catalyst conference in San Francisco, includes functionality that […]