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Dell Computer Corp. today announced a resale deal with enterprise storage leader EMC Corp. The five-year deal, which Dell officials said is in the “multi-billion dollar” range, gives EMC a new outlet for its low-end CLARiiON systems, which President and CEO Joe Tucci said last week the company needs to do a better job of […]

I first met Michael Kinsley in July 1996 at Bill Gates Hood Canal vacation home on one of Puget Sounds many inlets. Gates had summoned about a dozen top technology journalists in the hope of currying favor. At the time, noted journalist and CNN personality Kinsley was one of Gates newest employees. In an interview […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—The resale deal announced with Dell Computer Corp. this morning is indicative of more future arrangements EMC Corp. will take to cut costs and expand into more niches. The five-year deal also allows both companies to better exploit the midmarket segment, Dell and EMC officials said. The deal, which officials from both companies would […]

IBM is bidding to expand its share of the storage market with a low-end Windows and Linux server storage system that has large system, Unix-server style capacities. In the growing competition to meet rapidly increasing storage needs, IBMs move may represent the type of storage units soon to come from competitors EMC, Hewlett-Packard and Sun […]

When terrorists struck the U.S. on Sept. 11, the world turned to CNN.com. It also turned to CBS.com and NBC.com. But when it turned to ABCNews.com, it got stuck in traffic, as heavy volume overwhelmed the networks servers. By tripling the servers for the site, ABC was able to clear the logjam within two hours. […]

BEA Systems is broadening its portal server on top of its popular WebLogic application server, placing the middleware company more directly in the crowded portal software arena. The move will bring BEA into direct competition with the 30-plus portal application vendors. In addition, it will up BEAs ante against IBM and Sun Microsystems, which have […]

An Internet privacy standard, as implemented in Microsofts recently released Internet Explorer 6 browser, is causing headaches for some Net companies. The World Wide Web Consortiums Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) specification first became widely available in IE 6, which Microsoft released in late August. IE 6 is also a primary component of Windows XP, […]

Covisint, the supply and collaboration exchange for the automotive industry, may be in for a rocky adolescence. On Nov. 1, Covisint will deploy the latest version of its cornerstone product, Quote Manager. The multitiered application is designed to streamline the procurement process for automakers and dramatically reduce the amount of time needed to contract for, […]

A service launching today will give I-managers the chance to analyze clickstream data from virtually any site on the Web – including those of their most ardent competitors. Web analytics firm WebSideStory and traffic monitoring firm comScore Networks are announcing the HitBox Benchmarker service they say provides the virtual X-ray vision. Until now, I-managers wanting […]

The widening anthrax scare has thrown another major wrench into the gears of e-commerce, potentially slowing package delivery, undermining confidence in the mail and raising shipping costs at a time when e-tailers can least afford it. Sharp reductions in air cargo capacity, combined with already rising prices, could also add delays and expenses for shippers, […]