eWEEK EDITORS

As Chief Financial Officer of the worlds fifth-largest airline, Larry Kellner played a key role in bringing Continental Airlines Inc. from bankruptcy to profitability in the past five years. And it was Kellners IT savvy that provided much of the stimulus. So it was no surprise to André Gold, Continentals director of Internet engineering, in […]

Theres wired, and theres wireless. Pingtel Corp. has developed a Web-based portal that integrates its Xpressa IP phone with a users desktop PC. Users of MyPingtel will be able to manage and operate their phones from their PCs, including managing speed-dial numbers from their Web browsers, dialing directly from their PCs, and modifying phone functions […]

Amidst ongoing price wars with its rivals and on the heels of a lukewarm earnings announcement, storage industry giant EMC Corp. today announced updated SAN management software and a new business continuance service, slowly pulling out onto the road to what officials have said will be the companys busiest year ever. Enterprise Storage Network Manager […]

Storage adapter and software producer JNI Corp. will announce today exclusive licensing of related technology from startup Troika Networks Inc. San Diego-based JNI will get, for $10.5 million, Troikas Zentai Controller and Path Command Plus products, plus existing customer support. Zentai, like JNIs own products, is a PCI-to-Fibre Channel card, but with advanced high-availability features […]

As the Linux community gathers in New York this week for LinuxWorld, the consensus among the faithful is that the open-source platform is coming of age. A year after the 2.4 kernel was released, there is a greater confidence in Linuxs scalability and stability, which will be reflected in a number of new offerings on […]

AT&T Corp. exited the small-business Web hosting segment Friday, selling its customers and servers to private Web hosting provider, Interland Inc. AT&T officials said the company made the move to concentrate on larger rivals like WorldCom Inc., IBM, and Cable & Wireless plc. Officials from both AT&T, of Basking Ridge, N.J., and Interland, of Atlanta, […]

IBM today introduced two new Linux-based high-end computing systems in a move that will mark the first time the company will sell a mainframe system configured solely to use the open-source software. Over the last two years, IBM has been a leader among computer makers in embracing Linux and has rolled it out as an […]

Direct-order computer maker Gateway Inc. on Thursday posted its first profitable quarter in more than a year, but then warned of future losses and said it will shutter more stores and eliminate 2,250 jobs. During a conference call with analysts to discuss the earnings, Chief Financial Officer John Burke said the cost-cutting actions were necessary […]

Intel Corp. is secretly developing an alternative 64-bit chip the company can turn to should its $1 billion Itanium design flops, according to a newspaper report Friday quoting unnamed sources. And though Intel spokesman Howard High, in Santa Clara, Calif., declined to comment on the report, published by the San Jose Mercury News, industry analysts […]

High-end storage giant EMC Corp. generated $1.51 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter, which was a 25 percent gain from the quarter before. However, the Hopkinton, Mass., company lost $70 million, or 3 cents a share. Still, the company beat Wall Street expectations of a 4 cent to 12 cent loss. For all of […]

Know your data: The importance of data—and the tolerance for its unavailability—should determine the level of protection applied. Run data volume restoration tests often to ensure backup integrity. Run full systems restoration tests on at least a quarterly basis, evaluating recovery speeds and procedures. To ensure backward and forward compatibility, buy technology from companies with […]

Storactive Inc. on Wednesday launched a new version of its real-time backup software, aimed at small to midsize enterprises. The new product, LiveBackup 2.5, works by transparently recording any changes to files as theyre created. That way, the burden is off end users, said Product Manager Steve Sussman, in Marina del Rey, Calif. The latest […]