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Enterprise storage leader EMC Corp. on Wednesday launched major upgrades to its network-attached storage line, in a tactical move designed to shake up rivals like BlueArc Corp., Compaq Computer Corp. and Network Appliance Inc. The announcement for Celerra File Server, which is essentially a network-attached front-end to Symmetrix storage units, has nine parts. The most […]

While hopes for the rapid adoption of Infiniband, an emerging high-speed I/O technology designed for data centers, appear to have faded in recent months due to performance boosts in existing technologies, Intel Corp. remains confident the new serial architecture, due to ship in volume next year, will take root. At its developers forum in San […]

Seeking to quell speculation that Intel Corp. is secretly working on a Pentium-based alternative to its slow-selling 64-bit Itanium, a senior executive asserted this week that the chip maker remains fully committed to its Itanium line. In a sharp rebuttal to media reports, Mike Fister, senior vice president in charge of the Itanium line, argued […]

Compaq Computer Corp. this week announced several upgrades to its disk storage and tape storage products, many of which have been selling for months but are now official and generally available, officials said. The highlights from the Houston-based company are new rack-mounted tape options for the MSL 5052SL library and the availability of a new […]

In the ongoing quest to make Windows a credible operating system for data centers, Microsoft Corp. yesterday announced a partnership to give a free copy of Aurema Inc.s ARMTech resource management software to Windows 2000 Data Center Server users. ARMTech, or Active Resource Management Technology, takes over server resources issues between software, users, and processes. […]

Intel Corp. Monday announced three single-chip Gigabit Ethernet products for desktop PCs, workstations and servers at the companys semiannual U.S. developers forum in San Francisco. While sales of many technologies have been hard hit during the ongoing U.S. recession, sales of Gigabit Ethernet remain strong, according to industry analysts, as companies move to speed up […]

Despite the dark clouds that continue to hang over the computer industry, Intel Corp.s Craig Barrett yesterday forecasted sunny days ahead and another period of extended growth for high-tech, but only for those companies that can deliver innovative new products. The chief executive of the worlds largest chip maker, in a keynote address to 4,000 […]

DataDirect Networks Inc. hopes to stake a claim downstream next week with the launch of its first departmental and workgroup device, the S2A 3000 Silicon Server Appliance. The product, which accelerates, manages and virtualizes disparate storage equipment, will fit in a 1U rack, functions on just one board, uses 10 ASICs and has 10 ports, […]

WorldCom Inc. and Compaq Computer Corp. announced an expansion to their existing relationship today, in a move Compaq officials say indicates the progress of their Computing On Demand initiative. Specifically, the companies said they will co-market and co-promote WorldComs global managed hosting and co-location services. Also, WorldCom becomes an official Compaq Strategic Service Provider Alliance […]

Outside of the few hundred developers at Microsoft who have seen prototypes of Microsofts forthcoming MSCRM customer relationship management suite, relatively few have seen what Microsofts small- to mid-market offering will look like. But according to copies of some of the MSCRM marketing materials that Microsoft has made available to its reseller partners, the first […]

American Express Co. said it will outsource its data centers and other IT operations worldwide to IBM Global Services in a deal valued at $4 billion over seven years. American Express becomes the first large enterprise to sign on for what IGS for the last 14 months has been promoting, first as e-sourcing and, more […]