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Like everyone, Motorola Inc. CIO Bill Boni was still struggling early this year with the security implications of 9/11 when the second shoe dropped: an alert from the CERT Coordination Center indicating serious vulnerabilities in Version 1 of SNMP. Unless organizations disabled the ubiquitous protocol or blocked external access to devices using SNMP services, they […]

Storage Technology Corp. this week will announce SnapVantage virtualization software for connecting StorageTeks Shared Virtual Array products to IBMs zSeries Linux-based virtual servers. The $25,000 SnapVantage, which is available now, can virtualize up to 500 such servers, controlled through a Web browser. That compares to the 50 virtual servers one person could manage otherwise, StorageTek […]

Products debuting this month from I-Tech Corp. and Empirix Inc. will help developers and end users evaluate storage systems performance and throughput. I-Techs SANCommander, available June 18, is a multiport, single-chassis device for generating Fibre Channel traffic at a 2G-bps wire speed, said Tom Robinson, product manager at the Eden Prairie, Minn., company. Pricing for […]

Greenhorns neednt apply. CTS Professional Services Inc.—an Atlanta-based consultancy that designs and installs NAS and SAN systems for large outfits such as The Coca-Cola Co. and Delta Air Lines Inc.—needs only well-seasoned storage management professionals. In other words, IT workers who can rope together a rowdy and ever-growing herd of related skills, from EMC Corp. […]

Reader response to Lisa Vaas May 13, 2002 article, “Fair Trade on Jobs?” Your article came at an appropriate time since my development team at a global investment bank found out yesterday that we were being outsourced. However your article should have addressed the following issues: First, while traditional manufacturing has been exposed to global […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. offered the first public demonstration today of its upcoming 64-bit Opteron processor running a four-way server at a Taiwan computer show, at which it heralded growing support for the chip that will take on Intel Corp.s Itanium in early 2003. The demonstration at Computex marked the first public showing of a […]

Career Coach is a column that gives IT professionals a chance to pose questions about training, certification, salaries or any other career-related issues to eWEEKs panel of IT managers, hiring and training experts. Dear Career Coach: I worked for a year and a half as a software engineer after receiving my B.S. in computer science […]

LAS VEGAS – Numerous announcements in the “co-opetition” trend are debuting around the Brocade Conference 2002 this week. Officials of Brocade Communications Systems Inc., the San Jose, Calif. storage switching vendor, announced several expansions to their user education and corporate partner programs. Also, storage maker LSI Logic Corp. announced its interoperability with Brocades newest switch, […]

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Sony Electronics Inc. will introduce a new LAN-free tape backup system next week, officials said on Friday. PetaApp, which will be available immediately, is a combination of Sonys existing Digital Tape Format-2 tape drives and its PetaBack software. By using 24-MB/sec drives and a direct SCSI or Fibre Channel connection to tape systems instead of […]

A start-up in the data backup and recovery market has a new twist that it is applying to mid-size enterprises. Avail Solutions will launch Integrity 2002 on Aug. 1, founder and CEO Mark Armstrong said. “Were not removing the original data from the users disk, were making a copy of it and then managing it,” […]

IBM won the largest government contract in its history Friday when the U.S. governments weather forecasting service selected it to build a supercomputer nearly four times as powerful as todays highest performing system. The contract, bid upon by several U.S. and Japanese companies, is valued at $224.4 million over nine years, making it IBMs biggest […]