InternetNews Staff

China Telecom, the Ma Bell of China, has cut the size of its $3.7-billion IPO in half and again delayed the offering in order to make it more appealing to institutional investors. Last week, the state-owned telephone company initially backed away from an IPO when U.S. investors were less than enthusiastic about another telecom offering […]

In a recent pair of reports, In-Stat/MDR reveals that pent-up demand for broadband is alive and well. The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based high tech research firm forecasts that nearly one out of every four online households will subscribe to a broadband services by the end of this year. Specifically, digital subscriber line (DSL) broadband services will grow […]

ADIC today announced that supercomputer manufacturer Cray will use ADIC’s StorNext File System as the primary SAN file system in its new Cray X1supercomputer. The file system, which is being made available through a long-term source license agreement, will be configured for Cray’s UNICOS operating system and will be delivered with every Cray X1 system. […]

Looking to help independent software vendors (ISVs) become ASPs, NaviSite Inc. , an Andover, Mass.-based managed hosting provider, yesterday announced it has partnered with application infrastructure provider Progress Company, a Bedford, Mass.-based business unit of Progress Software Corporation . The goal of the partnership between NaviSite and Progress is to help ISVs offer their packaged […]

The Security Space Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet broken down by 86 domains. Security Space estimates that even though there are almost 20 million Web sites, nearly 90 percent are “orphans” to which no other sites link. Security Space’s Web server survey includes only those servers […]

Network Appliance today announced that it has been selected by the Australian Department of Defense Information Services Branch, the entity responsible for managing the majority of the Department’s IT infrastructure, as the preferred storage supplier to standardize storage technology across the organization. The deal is for a total storage solution comprising hardware, software, and services, […]

Surebridge Inc., a Lexington, Mass.-based ASP that focuses on mid-market enterprises, took another step on its growth path today, announcing that it has acquired Transchannel Inc., an Atlanta-based ASP that manages and hosts PeopleSoft applications. Transchannel targets mid to large-size companies. Two weeks ago, Surebridge announced that it was adding nine strategic alliances to build […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced the formation of the Storage Management Initiative (SMI) Forum. The SMI Forum is the fifth forum to be formed by SNIA specifically to drive the adoption of technologies and interoperability, joining the Supported Solutions Forum, IP Storage Forum, DAFS Developers Forum, and Storage Security Industry Forum. The […]

Mostly driven by homeland security initiatives, state and local governments will spend at least $8 billion on IT initiatives in the public safety and criminal justice market segment in 2003, according to a new report by Input, a sales and marketing company targeting technology vendors. The report says the two vertical segments of the government […]

Bus-Tech has announced a new product – the iSCSI Storage Server – and iSCSI protocol support on its Mainframe Appliance for Storage; expanding the tape-on-disk product family to include an IP-based Storage Controller. Bus-Tech’s Mainframe Appliance for Storage (MAS) is a System/390 Tape-on-Disk Controller providing ESCON connection to System/390 class mainframes. Open systems disk storage […]

The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its October 2002 survey from 35,114,328 sites. This total represents the fourth consecutive dip from June’s peak of 38.8 million sites and September’s previous low of nearly 35.8 million sites. As usual, Apache, Microsoft, Zeus, […]

When consumers assess a Web site’s credibility, looks tend to sway their judgment more than information quality, according to research by Stanford University. The Stanford study, entitled “How Do People Evaluate a Web Site’s Credibility? Results from a Large Study”, found that consumers are more apt to consider design elements as part of their judgments […]