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Through all the noise surrounding the frantic flight of some data center owners into managed hosting services, you can barely hear the voices of others who say adding such services is just icing on a cake baked of solid bandwidth and colocation sales. Globix, a provider of hosting services, recently opened two new data centers […]

Mike Homer, a man not short on ambition, may believe his new company has crafted the next biggest Internet application since the Web browser. But to make it fly, the former Netscape Communications executive will have the monstrously difficult task of getting a critical mass of content producers and end users to buy into his […]

A new storage switch from Crossroads Systems Inc. provides midsize enterprises with large-scale Fibre Channel-to-SCSI flexibility. The Crossroads 8000, announced last week by the Austin, Texas, company, features eight SCSI device ports, a built-in Web server and improved backup speed, according to officials. The switch features dual Fibre Channel ports, 528MB-per-second data transfer rates, external […]

I-managers responsible for keeping their companies web sites up and running have rewritten the rules of engagement with their outsourcers, taking the task of monitoring their sites into their own hands and forging new alliances between the makers of hardware and the providers of analytic services. It used to be that Web hosters, just like […]

The storage conundrum got a bit rosier for small and midsize enterprises last week with 3Wares announcement of a pizza-box-size device that plugs into Ethernet, uses little power and stores 640 gigabytes of information. “Its going to be an excellent way for people to network information in smaller organizations,” said Tony Prigmore, senior analyst of […]

Age: 40 Degree: Bachelors degree in international relations from Eisenhower College of Rochester Institute of Technology; Masters degree in computer science from North East Worcestershire College; and a Stanford Executive MBA Car: Chrysler 300 M, silver Book Im reading now: Patton on Leadership: Strategic Lessons for Corporate Warfare by Alan Axelrod At the end of […]

A plan to allow the Internet Domain Name System to recognize languages other than English is being criticized as creating more problems than it solves, by either overloading existing routers or splitting sections off so they cant be reached by everyone. The Internet Engineering Task Force is proposing a protocol that will allow the DNS […]

Growing With the Customers Jamcracker is partnering with Epicentric and Vitria Technology to enhance its application management platform with additional integration capabilities and beefed-up portal functionality. The upgrades should start coming online this fall, and are driven by Jamcrackers increased focus on larger customers, says Todd Johnson, Jamcrackers vice president of worldwide marketing. “We have […]

A year after the web hosting market encountered mass consolidation, co-location leader Exodus Communications Inc. is finding new problems faster than it used to find new customers. The Santa Clara, Calif., company, best known for its expensive but high-availability data hosting, showcases clients such as BestBuy.com Inc., eBay Inc. and Yahoo Inc. While executives still […]

Most “celebrity sites” are nothing more than online marketing campaigns or vanity sites — cyberspace shrines to Brad, Julia or J.Lo. But a few enterprising celebrities have taken their Internet identities out of the hands of the publicity department and, trading on their fame, theyre often profiting from their online endeavors. Here are three Web […]

Resonate Inc. delivered on its partnership with BEA Systems Inc. recently when it released a set of customized services for BEA WebLogic Servers based on its Commander Solutions application monitoring and performance reporting tool. The new BEA Ready Service Package includes scripts predefined in template form for applications built on the BEA WebLogic Server 5.1. […]

In the worldwide race to roll out wireless telephone service, the U.S. is the out-of-shape Sunday jogger running in the midst of an elite marathon team. Growth in cell phone usage in the U.S. is expected to begin to plateau in 2004, due in part to carriers reluctance to build infrastructure in underserved rural areas. […]