eWEEK EDITORS

Regular readers of this column—and I know there are at least six, not including immediate family members—might feel a sense of déja` vu with this weeks version. It is my last column. Honestly. I wrote a goodbye column last year, when I relinquished this exalted tract for a few months. Alas, my duties changed again, […]

American Megatrends Inc., best known for making computer BIOSes, plans to expand its role in enterprise storage technology. AMI already sells NAS (network- attached storage) software with a FreeBSD operating system called StorTrends. The company also sells storage server components for backplanes and for JBOD, or just a bunch of disks, formats. But the NAS […]

JNI Corp., a San Diego-based producer of storage adapters and software, will get related technology as part of a $10.5 million deal with Troika Networks Inc. As part of the deal, announced last week, JNI will get Troikas Zentai Controller and Path Command Plus products, as well as customer support. Zentai, like JNIs own products, […]

A year since the promises began, storage virtualization is still little more than a blip on the screen, though some vendors are trying to push ahead. Hitachi Data Systems Corp. will gradually add virtualization through new releases of its HiCommand software, starting with Version 2.0 this week, said Hu Yoshida, chief technology officer of the […]

Dell Computer Corp. on Monday announced a deal for supercomputer maker Cray Inc. to offer high-performance cluster solutions featuring Dells PowerEdge servers. The deal with Seattle-based Cray, a longtime leader in designing some of the worlds most powerful computers, highlights the companys efforts to extend its customer base by integrating its technology into popular Intel-based […]

About two weeks after undergoing surgery at a local hospital in the fall of 2001, medical claims specialist Mary Jane Stull of of Northbend, Indiana, received no fewer than four telemarketing calls from companies that provide home medical services trying to sell her one manner of home care or another. When she asked the callers […]

Last years Code Red and Nimda worms hurt Microsofts prestige and raised questions about the companys ability to conquer the security flaws plaguing its Web server and e-mail software. The worms caused servers to crash or to be taken out of service for purging at thousands of companies. But Microsoft sailed through the ordeal materially […]

When Windows XP was released in October, USB 2.0 support was lacking but promised as soon as possible. Today Microsoft made good on that promise—record time for the Redmond giant. Users with USB 2.0 host controllers can download the driver by going to the Windows Update website, www.windowsupdate.com. (Note: PCs without USB 2.0 card or […]

Storage Networks Inc., known as an early leader in the storage service provider niche thats now widely considered to be in jeopardy, gave details Thursday of how it plans to transform into a software company. Coinciding with fourth-quarter and year-end earnings announcements, of $123.6 million for 2001 compared with $48.2 million for 2000, CEO and […]

Lou Gerstner righted once floundering IBM and steered it back to profitability, but despite those accomplishments his successor, Samuel Palmisano, faces some daunting challenges of his own. Among them, customers and industry analysts say, IBMs newly appointed CEO will need to further rein in expenses at the corporate giant, strengthen its sagging hardware business and […]

NEW YORK—Was it IBMs much-ballyhooed recent announcement of a mainframe that runs only Linux that swayed E*Trade Group Inc. to dump its Sun Microsystems Solaris servers in favor of the open-source operating system? E*Trade Chief Technology Officer Josh Levine says no. Instead, it was Linuxs vendor-independence that led the online brokerage firm to announce Wednesday […]

Veritas Software Corp., like many of its enterprise IT software rivals, is increasing its product catalog for Linux users. The Mountain View, Calif., company on Wednesday announced Foundation Suite 1.1 for Linux. Available now, Foundation Suite is Veritas primary storage virtualization software, previously available for Microsoft Corp.s Windows, Sun Microsystems Inc.s Solaris and various other […]