eWEEK EDITORS

Could it be? Could genuine competition be returning to the software industry? Its early, but there are some positive signs. Conventional wisdom says the Microsoft antitrust proceeding produced no useful result. But the company is easing pluggable substitution of third-party middleware modules in the next service packs for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Its a […]

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Sony Electronics Inc. is combining tape drives and software to create a LAN-free tape backup system. PetaApp, which is available now, is a combination of Sonys DTF (Digital Tape Format)-2 tape drives and its PetaBack software. By using 24MB-per-second drives and a direct SCSI or Fibre Channel connection to tape systems, instead of using an […]

New Peregrine, Sourcefire CEOs Software developer Peregrine Systems was looking for stability after learning it was under federal investigation for possible accounting problems. Security company Sourcefire was looking to move up the food chain. Both last week hired new CEOs to help them achieve these goals. Peregrine, whose former CEO, Steve Gardner, resigned last month […]

Even as the bitter eight- month battle over its buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. enveloped the company, HP Co. executives maintained the real challenge would be merging the two companies once the $19 billion deal was completed. Last week, Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina and other HP executives told financial analysts here that the myriad […]

IBM, seeking to rekindle sagging sales, today launched a new server with an unusual promotional effort that may mark the first salvo in a price war against one of the industrys most formidable low-cost competitors, Dell Computer Corp. In hailing its new dual-processor eServer x235 today, IBM took the bold step of emphasizing that the […]

Blade server specialist RLX Technologies Inc. on Monday announced Control Tower 3.0 software, new clustering bundles, a blade bundle partnership for Web hosting uses and a security certification. RLX, of The Woodlands, Texas, previously outlined a roadmap for applications built on its RLX ServerBlade 800i product that generally focuses on vertical solutions. Control Tower 3.0s […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Monday released its first desktop processor built using its new 0.13-micron manufacturing process, a method that can produce faster, less power-hungry and smaller chips, which ultimately are cheaper to make. Though the clock speed of the new Athlon XP 2200+ is 1.8GHz — only about 6 percent faster than AMDs […]

Dell Computer Corp. on Monday began shipping a hardware/software bundle to make its network-attached storage connect to its co-branded EMC Corp. storage-area networks, officials said. Dells PowerVault NAS servers, based on Microsoft Corp.s Server Appliance Kit 2.0, can now be managed by—and share files with—EMCs mid-range Clariion SANs, certain models of which Dell resells and […]

For some, IT is their job. For others (those in the geek category, perhaps) it is their life. In between we have categories like trade, vocation, livelihood, line of business, occupation, calling, pursuit and living. But, for most of us, IT is our career– even if we didnt view it that way when we first […]

A unique company with years of military IT contracts and relatively unknown commercial storage products will announce a new application for storage-area management next week. Syred Inc. will announce CloudStor, which gives users in-band virtualization results using a partial out-of-band method, and which converts the data gradually without having downtime, said founder and CEO Simon […]

3Pardata Inc. wants to make running a storage system easier, more efficient and less costly. The Fremont, Calif., company, which was established three years ago, this fall will release its first products, all part of its InSpire Architecture storage system that aims to give users greater control of the systems operations and the ability to […]