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The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and Infinity I/O, it’s appointed certification program developer, today announced the launch of the Specialist examination (Level 3) of the vendor independent SNIA Fibre Channel-SAN Certification Program. “Standards for measuring the storage networking expertise of IT professionals are a key factor in the growth of our industry,” said Sheila […]

Colorado Springs, Colo. based software development company XAware has announced the availability of specialized software components that implement the Bluefin specification for interoperability. XAware Bluefin components adopt a modular approach to software development that can help storage industry vendors adopt and leverage the specification more rapidly. The Bluefin specification is an initiative to improve the […]

EMC today outlined its plans to provide developer partners and customers with the tools to drive standards-compliant, open storage management solutions into real-world environments. These plans build on EMC’s continuing work with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and its member companies to further develop and speed finalization of the Storage Management Initiative (SMI) (previously […]

NetLedger Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based Web-native ASP that produces the Oracle Small Business Suite, and communications giant Sprint today announced a partnership in which Sprint will offer small business application services to small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) customers of FastConnect DSL. According to the companies, Sprint will refer the Oracle Small Business Suite to […]

Bigfoot Interactive Rolls Out Sales E-Mail Tool A week after unveiling its new e-mail delivery platform, DREAM, Bigfoot Interactive is following up with a sales force e-mail automation application. The New York-based e-mail marketing provider announced Wednesday the availability of DREAM Maker, which allows a company’s sales force to customize print and e-mail communications through […]

Intel, along with a host of leading enterprise companies, today announced the delivery of the InfiniBand evaluation program, designed to help IT organizations evaluate initial InfiniBand fabrics supporting Intel architecture server platforms. InfiniBand architecture is a high performance I/O fabric for server platforms that will be supported in products shipping next year. Developed and driven […]

Serial ATA, the next-generation storage interconnect, has reached another milestone with today’s release of a final specification of Serial ATA II: Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0, or simply called Serial ATA II. The announcement was made by the Serial ATA Working Group at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) conference in Tokyo. Serial ATA II is […]

Seeking an edge over AOL and MSN, Yahoo is now using Macromedia servers to deliver streaming video to subscribers of its co-branded SBC Yahoo! DSL service. “One of the benefits of the platform is that we can update the service on a monthly basis,” Nicki Dugan, a Yahoo! spokeswoman, told internetnews.com. “You don’t have to […]

A Hong Kong computer dealer was recently ordered to pay more than $35 million (HK) to Microsoft after a local court found the dealer, Able System Development Ltd, sold thousands of computers over an extended period with unlicensed Microsoft software pre-installed on their hard discs. Industry watchdog group, Business Software Alliance (BSA), on Wednesday voiced […]

Surebridge Inc., an enterprise ASP, today announced nine strategic alliances in what the company describes as an “aggressive build out of its distribution channels.” The alliances are designed to add value to the Lexington, Mass.-based company’s application outsourcing services across key vertical industries and geographic locations. Surebridge deploys, hosts and manages enterprise resource planning (ERP) […]

StoneFly Networks and BakBone Software today announced a partnership to provide an end-to-end IP SAN-based storage provisioning and backup “solution set” to resellers, mid-tier enterprises, and workgroups and departments in larger enterprises. The solution comprises StoneFly’s Storage Concentrators – “all-in-one” IP SAN appliances that combine the functionality of an iSCSI-based storage router, bridge and logical […]

StorageTek today launched what it calls a ‘groundbreaking’ disk subsystem aimed at making online data storage a more cost effective option for businesses with high volumes of essential information. The company’s new BladeStore Architecture delivers the ability to store large quantities of data in a small footprint. It combines low-cost ATA disk drives for data […]