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At least a half-dozen tape storage businesses will meet behind the scenes at the Comdex trade show next week in Las Vegas to discuss creating an industry consortium. Called the Tape Technology Council, the meeting attendees—who will probably include representatives from IBM, Seagate Technology LLC, Sony Electronics Inc., Storage Technologies Corp. and Tandberg Data ASA—will […]

Kevin Wilson, product line manager for desktop hardware at Duke Energy Corp. and an eWeek Corporate Partner, recently sat for an interview with eWeek Labs Cameron Sturdevant, Jason Brooks and Debra Donston. Wilson is directly responsible for the composition of the product line and the operational integrity of products and preloads and has served on […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. has accused a former employee of sabotaging benchmark tests on its top Unix server, the Superdome, resulting in lower scores that may have undermined sales of its most expensive hardware. HP made the allegations in a lawsuit it filed against the employee in U.S. District Court, in San Jose, Calif. According to the […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the worlds second largest manufacturer of PC chips, on Thursday predicted that despite selling a record number of processors this quarter, revenues will remain relatively flat from the previous quarter. Speaking at the companys annual fall analysts conference, AMD Chairman Jerry Sanders also warned that the sales could dip again during […]

Its almost been lost in the antitrust settlement, but Microsoft early this week made a rare addition to its Office application suite, the $179 Data Analyzer for ease-of- use data manipulation for business intelligence. But you wont find it by rushing down to your neighborhood software store and buying the latest version of Office. This […]

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SilverStream, the last of the independent application server companies, has always surrounded its Java 2 Enterprise Edition server with application development tools. Now it is adding applications on top of those tools for the rapid deployment of Web services. Indeed, while other companies are catching up on tools, SilverStream President David Litwack says his company […]

Storage industry rivals Compaq Computer Corp. and EMC Corp. on Thursday will announce plans to share their application programming interfaces with each other, a move that could open the door for other competitors like Hitachi Ltd. and IBM to do the same. Sharing APIs doesnt mean the rivals products will automatically or immediately interoperate, but […]

David Packard, son of the late co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co., has joined Hewlett family members in denouncing the companys controversial plan to buy out Compaq Computer Corp. Packard, who owns 1.3 percent of HPs stock, voiced his opposition to the merger late yesterday after HP heir and company board member Walter Hewlett issued a statement […]

In the increasingly cut-throat Internet services market, the ability to prove service levels is one of the most important things customers look for when choosing a provider. In that vein, Web hoster NaviSite Inc. will announce a new metrics tracking feature next week. Starting with the past four months of data, NaviSite will publish its […]