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Study: It Behooves IT Staff to Sharpen Business Skills

A study released last week by SIM (the Society for Information Management), a professional society of IT executives, identified business capabilities as five of...

Microsoft Readies BitVault Self-Healing Data Store

Microsoft is working to commercialize "BitVault," a Microsoft Research technology designed to store large volumes of seldom-changing information—the kind of material that overwhelms enterprises...

Readers Respond: Microsoft Shuts Windows on New PC Firmware

I read John G. Spooners article on UEFI ("Microsoft Shuts Windows on New PC Firmware," March 20) with great interest because my future as...

EnterpriseDB Picks Up PostgreSQL Super-Developers

BOSTON—EnterpriseDB has scooped up Bruce Momjian, a leading PostgreSQL developer and member of the open-source databases Core Team, to serve as senior database architect,...

Platform Computing Looks to ISVs to Open Enterprise Doors

Platform Computing is looking to partnerships with software vendors as a way of getting its grid computing products into enterprises. Enterprises tend to be more...

Linux Leaps Toward KDE/GNOME Compatibility

The Open Source Development Labs, the consortium dedicated to the adoption of Linux, and freedesktop.org, the open-source project focused on interoperability for X Window...

Coraid Rolls Out Low-Cost Linux-Based NAS Gateway

Coraid, a San Clemente, Calif., company that bills itself as an alternative to higher-cost iSCSI and Fibre Channel, has bolstered its Linux NAS Gateway...

Making Your Apps Work with Internet Explorer 7

Microsoft is under increasing pressure to do something with Internet Explorer 7. Like little dogs nipping at its heels, other browsers have raised the...

Exabyte Sizes Upgradable Tape Drive for SMBs

Exabyte has introduced what it says is the first upgradable tape drive. Aimed at SMBs (small and midsize businesses) that may be short on cash...

Free Add-On Outfits Windows CE for DVRs, IP-STBs

Microsoft on April 4 unveiled a Windows CE add-on intended to simplify the development of next-generation DVRs (digital video recorders) and IP STBs (Internet...