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The CEO of SANgate Systems Inc. resigned on Tuesday after a Massachusetts state court ruled in favor of his former employer, EMC Corp., in a non-compete lawsuit. EMC sued Doron Kempel in October after he quit as president of EMCs media solutions group to join SANgate, a start-up maker of data mirroring hardware and software, […]

Sun Microsystems Inc., responding to increasing pressure from rivals and seeking to put recent troubles behind it, this week touted performance improvements for its upcoming 1GHz processor while attacking IBMs chip claims as “unrealistic.” Although the 1.05GHz UltraSPARC III, set for release early next year, is only 100MHz faster than the companys current top-performing chip, […]

Broadcom Corp. has filed a new lawsuit against Intel Corp., accusing the giant chipmaker of infringing on its patents. The suit marks the latest in a series of legal skirmishes between the two rivals. In the latest squabble, Broadcom, a manufacturer of chips used in networking equipment and servers, accuses Intel of illegally using its […]

IBM this week will continue pushing its storage virtualization capabilities when it starts reselling DataCore Software Corp.s SANsymphony 4.0 product as an option for high-end Shark units. The software adds block-level virtualization, logical volume management, and data snapshot functionality, said Chris Saul, Shark OEM program manager for IBM, in San Jose, Calif. Virtualization is the […]

BMC Software Inc. will take a new product tack early next year with an updated version of the companys Patrol Recovery for Oracle software. The 2.0 version will feature multiple-database management through one interface, so users can better manage products from Oracle Corp., IBM and Microsoft Corp., said Mike Jones, director of product management at […]

After years in the courts, the proposed settlement of the United States of America and nine states vs. Microsoft is as toothless as the consent decree of 1995. Microsoft again must make only nominal behavior changes. In return, it gains legal protection for many practices that landed it in court. The holes in the proposed […]

Advocates of open-source software for the enterprise will get a boost this week with the announcement of BakBone Software Inc.s new module for the MySQL database and an alliance with Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. The backup and restore module is a plug-in for BakBones NetVault suite and uses the backup API in MySQL Version […]

Everyone loves to hate CRM, the most maligned enterprise application. Thats because CRM implementations can touch as many as 70 percent to 80 percent of a companys employees. ERP, just as bad-mouthed in its heyday, affects about 15 percent, requiring far less than the total company buy-in that CRM often does. Research documenting CRMs low […]

K9s Called to Tech Show Comdex is going to the dogs—the bomb-sniffing dogs. In addition to the normal panoply of high-tech gadgets, the annual Las Vegas techfest last week featured a noticeable police presence with K9 security. Two German shepherds stood next to the doors outside a keynote speech, quickly sniffing all bags going in. […]

You might expect that federal, state and local government agencies—long treated by IT professionals as the ugly stepsisters of potential employers—would be looking a lot more attractive these days. After all, the sagging economy has erased a growing number of private-sector IT jobs, making the relative security of the public sector more appealing. At the […]