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Commenting on Apple Risks Backlash With Macworld Fiasco by Colin Haley. . . I agree with your assessment. Unfortunately, I think it has been well known that Steve Jobs prefers New York over Boston for a long time now. Some rumor sites said that Steve has been known to call Boston some very unfriendly names. […]

Replying to Spam at the Breaking Point: A Time for White Knights” by Gus Venditto If you read the text of FTC’s settlement with Mr. Scott [referenced in the article], you’ll find Scott will pay a fine of $20,000 while getting to keep the $200,000+ in profits he made on the spam. Not a resounding […]

Verio, an Englewood, Colo.-based Web hosting provider, yesterday announced the NTT/Verio PowerPlatform Hosting framework, which the company describes as the next phase of its enterprise hosting strategy. PowerPlatform is designed to extend Verio’s range of managed hosting products for midsize and large enterprises and gives customers the capability to build out their infrastructure based on […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its draft cyber security guidelines to help federal agencies comply with computer security requirements recently mandated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The NIST is a non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Commerce Department’s Technology Administration. Under OMB policy, federal officials must make […]

Agoura Hills, CA. based Huge Systems has announced the availability of SanStream, a family of shared fault-tolerant RAID disk arrays that supports traditional networking protocols including Appletalk, SMB and NFS as well as the new iSCSI protocol. The unit is purpose designed for the graphics/entertainment markets and has been tested with common graphics development platforms […]

Hot on the heels of EMC‘s announcement last week, IBM yesterday launched a new initiative to accelerate the delivery of interoperable storage management products using the “Bluefin” specification. It also announced more advanced function and productivity enhancements to its TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (code-named “Shark”). As part of the announcement IBM also unveiled a working […]

The goal of Microsoft’s Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) program is to allow service providers to quickly and efficiently deploy hosted applications. To help achieve that goal, Abridean Inc., a Halifax, Nova Scotia-based application infrastructure independent software vendor (ISV), today announced AbrideanProvisor for HMC. There is good motivation to continue to improve on shared-infrastructure tools […]

EMC and Microsoft have teamed to develop the largest Microsoft SQL Server SAN ever built. The joint engineering activity, conducted at Microsoft’s SQL Server Labs in Redmond, Wash., resulted in a 45-terabyte configuration that included a simulated 10-terabyte human genomics database. The companies say that the project highlights the scalability and flexibility of SQL Server […]

Dell has announced a new storage system and storage management software designed to help customers easily integrate and manage SAN systems within their existing networks. The Dell|EMC CX200 entry-level storage system — the first product to be manufactured by both Dell and EMC — is targeted at customers transitioning from direct-attached storage to a high-availability, […]

NEC Solutions America announced today that it is shipping portable projectors with its ImageXpress networking technology option. The Sacramento, Calif.-based company said that the MT60 Series, which includes the MT1065, MT1060 and MT860, can communicate continuously and in real time from a PC to the projector through a wired LAN system or a wireless system […]

Microsoft today announced that research by IDC shows the user base for Windows powered NAS appliance servers has increased to nearly 32 percent in just over a year and a half since launch. Microsoft said that the increase is attributed to customers being challenged to manage increasing amounts of data with decreased IT spending. For […]

Adaptec today demonstrated iSCSI interoperability with Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server operating system in an IP Storage environment. The demonstration at this week’s Storage Networking World (SNW) conference shows how it is possible to combine Windows 2000-based servers with storage using iSCSI to create simple, affordable SAN solutions. The demonstration also highlights the interoperability of […]