eWEEK EDITORS

Network Appliance Inc. and Compaq Computer Corp. are among a number of companies testing storage technologies that could have an impact on the general IT community. The technologies being tested, including a file-access method and intercontinental data storage using IP, could impact areas ranging from more software and operating systems to voice and networking products. […]

Exodus Files With Exodus Communications filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization last week, the dream of Web hosters as a big independent industry came to an end. Exodus secured $200 million in debtor-in-possession financing from GE Capital to fund operating expenses and obligations to suppliers and employees. Likely candidates to acquire Exodus include Sprint, Global […]

Large companies with considerable IT resources and a long history of reliance on telecom and computer networks emerged from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with their business processes mostly intact. But smaller firms — some directly affected, others merely contemplating the business ramifications of mass outages — are scrambling to develop low-budget disaster recovery plans. […]

Sun Microsystems introduced a new high-end server, claiming the Sun Fire 15K will supplant IBM mainframes in corporate data centers. The new product is a 16- to 106-processor server, whose processors can be subdivided or “partitioned” into 18 submachines. The Sun Fire comes with 576 gigabytes of memory, “unprecedented in a single system,” said Shahin […]

Adobe Pushes Web Tools Adobe Systems last week introduced AlterCast, image management server software that can dynamically resize and reformat images for Web sites. AlterCast starts at $7,500. The company also announced new versions of Illustrator and InDesign; released a beta version of its Acrobat Reader for Pocket PC, a collaborative site for designers. Ad […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. last week took aim at rival IBM in the high-end Unix server market with the unveiling of its biggest, most powerful system to date, the 106-processor Sun Fire 15K. In a subdued event in New York, Sun executives said the server, designed to handle massive numbers of transactions or computations simultaneously, will […]

Vendors Stick by New York Soon after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani encouraged people and businesses to come back to the city. High-tech companies are doing just that. Last week, Sun went ahead with plans to unveil the Sun Fire 15K high-end server at an event in the city. President […]

The world has changed on us. Again. Eighteen months ago we were wrestling with the problems of growth and the challenges of effectively using incredible new technologies. But before we knew it, market excesses drove collapse, as excesses inevitably do. The market dove, technology businesses spun into recession, and companies retrenched. The economy seemed to […]

As the competition over digital identities escalates, VeriSign is envisioning a future when it provides identity and electronic addressing services that span the traditional telephony and Web worlds. VeriSigns $1.2 billion acquisition last week of Illuminet, a 900-customer Signaling System 7 telephone network service provider, is a significant bet on the convergence of the Internet […]

CEO Out Charter Communications co-founder and CEO Jerry Kent has resigned and was scheduled to leave the board of directors on Sept. 28. Kent will sell his interest in Charter Investments to board Chairman Paul Allen. Charter Investments holds most of Allens and Kents interest in the St. Louis company. EarthLink Online In a big […]