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Not satisfied with just taking on rivals like EMC Corp. and Hitachi Ltd. in high-end data storage, Compaq Computer Corp. is targeting the low end as well. The Houston companys server group on Monday announced new entry-level clustered storage hardware, at half the price of the compatible beginner product from its sister, Compaqs enterprise storage […]

Novell Inc. announced earlier this week that it has named professional services veteran Bob Couture as vice president of Global Consulting. Couture, with 20 years under his belt between IBM, Xerox and more recently as COO of Berkeley Enterprise Partners, is charged with developing and executing Novells growth strategy for its combined Cambridge Technology Partners […]

Compaq Computer Corp. is purchasing service provider technology from startup Storability Inc., progressing in its long-term goal of building a global on-demand IP storage network, Storability will announce on Monday. The deal, made by Compaqs Global Services division, gives the Houston-based company a copy of Storabilitys turnkey Assured Storage Management System. Consequently, Compaq will begin […]

PC maker Gateway Inc. disclosed Monday that it expects to post a fourth-quarter profit, before taxes and one-time charges, as it had previously predicted, but warned that its sales will fall far short of Wall Streets expectations. The direct-order computer maker, which hasnt posted a profit in more than a year, said unit sales for […]

IBM, seeking to reduce operating costs, has signed a $5 billion agreement to turn over the U.S. and European production of its NetVista desktop PCs to Sanmina-SCI Corp. As part of the deal, about 900 IBM employees in North Carolina and 80 in Scotland will be transferred to Sanmina-SCI, which will take over operations at […]

An executives departure and the staggering economy conspired to keep EarthLink Inc. from realizing its ASP plans last year. But the ISP (Internet service provider), looking to expand business, said it expects to begin this spring trials of selling hosted applications to its small-business broadband customers. The Atlanta-based ISP, which first outlined its application service […]

Spending to Remain Flat CRM vendors arent going to have the financial industry to help them out of these tough economic times, according to a study released last week. According to Meridien Research, spending on customer relationship management software in the financial industry should remain flat for the next two years. The study, “CRM Spending […]

In last weeks issue, eWeek Labs analysts and managers each took a crack at 2001s defining moments. Now Ill do the same, hopefully with the same originality, insight and aplomb as our esteemed Labs personnel. Here goes. Years biggest tech story: It has to be the Enron collapse and the yet-to-be-told story of how its […]

Compaq Computer Corp. has started production on its first Itanium-based server after a five-month delay it blamed on problems with Intel Corp.s 64-bit chip. While the system may bolster Intels efforts to promote the slow-selling Itanium, Compaqs disclosures of troubles with the chip might dampen system managers interest in it. “Im always kind of wary […]

Tape storage and host bus adapters are the newest technology components to become part of the Storage Networking Industry Associations Supported Solutions Forum. However, on the horizon is interoperability between NAS (network-attached storage) and storage over IP. The forum, which six months ago unveiled its first offerings from storage vendors Compaq Computer Corp., EMC Corp., […]