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Fibre Channel Switch Hits 2G-bps Throughput

Challenges rivals QLogic Corp., an end-to-end SAN infrastructure provider, has come up with a Fibre Channel switch that it says is bigger and faster...

Data, Data Everywhere, but Which Is Crucial?

In our last column, we discussed the fact that most Web sites have various stakeholders, each of whom will want to measure different things...

IBM Opens Door With NAS Products

Four months after launching its storage networking initiative, IBM last week unveiled a number of NAS products aimed at helping businesses link information and...

Stamping Out the Bad Guys

Most companies use business intelligence and customer relationship management software to identify customers and get them to spend more. Not the U.S. Postal Service....

A Pox on Them

When it comes to data delivery, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 has been a complete bust. Five years after its enactment, the average consumer...

SNIA Seeks Interoperability Solution

Rival storage and switch vendors got together last week in the name of interoperability, but questions remain whether such solutions meet IT needs.The Storage...

Keeping Info Clean

Axa Financial Inc. dodged a big, bad bullet early this year when, soon after launching a new customer Web portal, the financial services company...

The Magic of Pixie Dust

IBM says a layer of ruthenium "pixie dust" applied to its next-generation disk drives fools recording heads into thinking the magnetic layers are thinner...

Unresolved Issues Dog Feds Data-Tap Efforts

Rapid changes in communications technology threaten to make "a big mess" out of the federal governments ambitious plans to weave wiretapping into the fabric...

Thins in for Data Centers

PERIPHERALSThe data centers air conditioning may still cut to the bone, but American Power Conversions rack-mounted flat-panel monitor and keyboard drawer gives system administrators...