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When Sam Palmisano takes over as CEO of IBM next month, he will lead a company still in the midst of a business and cultural transformation set in motion by his predecessor, Louis Gerstner. According to IBM customers and observers, Palmisanos success will be measured largely on how well he navigates the company through its […]

Turning the tables in a difficult economy, IBM has launched an offensive to lure customers from Dell Computer Corp. by claiming its Intel Corp.-based servers cost up to 80 percent less to operate. While IBM is the worldwide leader in server sales, based on revenue, the computer maker ranks third in Intel-based server sales globally, […]

More Eyes on Passport A privacy group is taking another shot at Microsofts Passport service over the familiar issue of security. In a letter sent last week to the attorneys general of all 50 states, the Electronic Privacy Information Center claims Microsofts online identity service and its related Wallet, Kids Passport, HailStorm and .Net services […]

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 […]