eWEEK EDITORS

The technology industry is famous for coming up with fancy labels that attempt to describe and simplify complex problems. Identity management is one of those labels starting to make the rounds. As the growth of businesses and business processes residing on the Net rises, the need for better security becomes paramount. Access control, firewalls, provisioning, […]

GAO Hackers Protesting War Hackers who defaced the Web site of the U.S. General Accounting Office last week said they were protesting the U.S. war in Afghanistan and the plight of Palestinians and Kashmiris. A group claiming to be part of a large hacker organization known as the Alqaeda Muslim Alliance compromised a server belonging […]

German enterprise software company SAP AG finally succumbed to U.S. economic pressures early this month when it said it would lay off 300 employees, or about 7 percent of its U.S. work force. The company is paring its U.S. focus from 21 vertical markets down to 12. Wolfgang Kemna, CEO of SAP America Inc., said […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM early next year will unveil major storage management software and virtualization products. The moves come after other large storage vendors, including EMC Corp., Compaq Computer Corp. and Hitachi Ltd., rolled out initiatives to expand further into the burgeoning storage management market. Sun will announce four suites—for availability, performance, hierarchical utilization […]

Enterprise Storage Management got another jolt forward when Veritas Software Corp. officials announced Dec. 11 that IBMs Global Services division is now a reseller of their entire product line. The deal, which already is under way, has something for everyone. Veritas customers will gain access to IBMs massive consulting, implementation, support and maintenance capabilities. In […]

Common myths in the data storage industry are that tape libraries are dead and that 2G-bps SANs and storage over IP arent ready for prime time. Advanced Digital Information Corp.—better known as ADIC—wants to prove otherwise. The Redmond, Wash., company announced last week that its midrange and data center tape libraries are now shipping with […]

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FileMaker Inc., the long-time maker of mid-market and departmental databases, is planning to build new features and scalability for future versions, while company executives keep a close watch on the Web software revolution. “As you look out to the [mid]-2003 timeframe, what we are doing is growing up on the scalability and performance side,” Chris […]

IBM has an all-encompassing data management product on the drawing board that promises to further the companys efforts to marry structured and unstructured data. Known informally inside IBM as the “information integrator,” or II, the product will combine capabilities from three existing products and add next-generation XML technology, according to Janet Perna, general manager of […]

Belatedly throwing its hat into the open storage management software ring, Sun Microsystems Inc. will announce two major products next year. One of the products will combine four main functions—availability, performance, hierarchical utilization and resource management—into a single suite, according to sources close to the Palo Alto, Calif., company. Like the storage management suites from […]