Dan Muse

Will enterprise storage users be drawn to either 8 or 10 Gbps Fibre Channel? Not any time soon, according to a report released earlier this week by the Dell’Oro Group. In its SAN 5-Year Forecast, the research firm reports that the majority of Fibre Channel switch and Host Bus Adapter sales will remain at 4 […]

Dell’s storage news today has a little something for everyone: Some NAS, a bit of DAS and a serving of tape on the side. The announcement of new network-attached storage, disk, tape and management products come under the theme of making storage simpler for businesses of all sizes, Howard Shoobe, senior manager of PowerVault disk […]

Once Microsoft SQL Server is deployed in an enterprise it “multiplies like rabbits,” said Brian Garrett, technical director for the Enterprise Strategy Group, a Milford, Mass.-based analyst firm. “Once they are deployed, it’s hard to make them go away.” The result is that many companies now have dozens, hundreds or even thousands of instances of […]

With the Oakland Coliseum and the Athletics game against the New York Yankees as the backdrop, on-demand application provider NetSuite took the wraps off NetSuite Version 11.0. The new version boasts an AJAX-based user interface, SuiteScript to allow nontechnical people to customize the application for their business processes and two new industry-specific versions. Packed With AJAXNetSuite has […]

More than 12,000 small business owners and managers will hit the Internet today and for the rest of the week to attend one or more of Microsoft’s 40 free Webcasts geared for SMBs, according to the Redmond, Wash.-based software company. With its Small Business Summit as the backdrop, Microsoft also announced today plans to make […]

In January, Google upped the ante on its Mini search appliance, extending the number of documents it could index and search from 100,000 to 300,000. Today, the search king announced that in order to better meet the needs of smaller small businesses, it is releasing a version that searches 50,000 documents for just under $2,000. […]

Orative, a San Jose, Calif.-based provider of enterprise mobile telephony software, today announced Enterprise Software version 2.0. The company’s client-server software is designed to run on standard mobile phones and combines presence technology, directory synchronization, collaboration tools, secure messaging, voice mail notification and playback and calendar alerts. The software works with more than 30 handset […]

Looking to find a way to let peer-to-peer communications traverse NATs and firewalls in a single bound, Microsoft and Cisco Systems today announced that they are jointly endorsing the Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) methodology. ICE, which is not yet ratified but currently under consideration by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), is designed to allow […]

Promising to lower the cost and simplify the installation of its software, Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of two new programs aimed at small businesses. The Small Business Platform SKU, is designed to add a small businesses flavor to the Microsoft Open Value licensing program by consolidating the purchasing, use and management of the […]

When it comes to the power of presence in applications, “we’re just scratching the surface,” Ed Simnett, senior product manager for the Real-Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft, told InstantMessagingPlanet.com. “Presence is becoming a normal part of information workers bag of tricks,” Simnett said. “We’re seeing an increasing interest from customers in having presence part of […]

If you were to play a word-association game and say “IM,” there’s a good chance the other person would say “AOL.” Whether or not it’s sanctioned by the IT department, America Online Instant Messaging (AIM) has a presence somewhere within most enterprises. For that reason, Antepo, a provider of enterprise IM technology, in April signed […]

Looking to offer small e-commerce shops a wider range of options, online payment processor PayPal on Monday will announce Website Payments Pro. The new product suite will feature express checkout purchases, offer an application programming interface (API) for implementing PayPal services, and support for phone, fax and mail orders. The first leg of the three-legged […]