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Since the dotcom bust, the pool for potential Web hosting customers has gotten smaller and competition has gotten more fierce. In a move to motivate its reseller partners to migrate more of their customers to NTT/Verio, the Englewood, Colo.-based managed hosting provider today announced the NTT/Verio Consolidator Program. The program, which is in effect only […]

TESSCO, Wireless Business Barometer? GRIC Expands Wireless Roaming Network Wi-Fi Positioning System TESSCO, Wireless Business Barometer? If you were asked to find a number that could serve as a financial barometer for the Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) sector, you would not go to WISPs for a tally. Across the United States, WISPs are typically […]

Excel/Meridian Data today introduced its newest member of the NAS family of products, the DataNAS. The DataNAS is a NAS Filer scalable from 60GB to 1.6TB of raw storage. According to the company, the addition of the DataNAS product will strengthen its current position in the NAS market by enhancing the ability to deliver more […]

BiTMICRO Networks today announced its new 1Gbit dual-port Fibre Channel component — E-Disk 3F1 flash-based solid state disk. The world’s first 3.5-inch E-Disk 3F1 is a new class of all-electronic Fibre Channel flash disk storage solution with no moving parts designed for systems that require high reliability and performance. It is perfect for data recording […]

Facing an erosion of analog cable subscribers that defected to direct broadcast satellite, Paul Allen’s Charter Communications is regrouping by juicing up its broadband network. Hardware giant Cisco Systems said Monday that Charter selected its DOCSIS 1.1-qualified Cisco “uBR10012” cable modem termination system (CMTS) router for expansion of broadband services. The announcement follows Charter’s recent […]

Struggling satellite radio company Sirius Satellite Radio has a new lease on life after it raised $200 million and reduced its debt. The New York-based company struck an agreement with bondholders to convert about $700 million of debt and all of its $525 million of preferred stock into common stock. The arrangement makes the company’s […]

Salesforce.com, an ASP that specializes in Web-native customer relationship management (CRM) applications, today announced that Jim Steele has joined the company as president of Worldwide Operations. In the new position, Steele will be responsbile for running worldwide sales, services, support and marketing. He reports directly to Marc Benioff, salesforce.com chairman and CEO. Most recently, Steele […]

McDATA Corp. has released a new Fibre Channel SAN switch for the mid-range market. Designed to fill the needs of small-to-midsize enterprises, the McDATA Sphereon is the the world’s only 24-port SAN switch and offers “connectivity on demand” in 8-port increments through McDATA’s FlexPort Technology. McDATA is also packaging every Sphereon 4500 with its all-new, […]

According to a new study from Jupiter Research, U.S. broadband service providers added approximately 1.3 million net new households in the second quarter of 2002. About 13.1 million households across the country currently use broadband services to connect to the Internet. The growth of broadband uptake in the U.S. is on pace to meet Jupiter’s […]

Nexsan today rolled out its next-generation disk-to-disk backup technology platform; an enterprise data protection solution that the company says outpaces traditional tape-based backup alternatives in both functionality and value. The new InfiniSAN D2D Professional combines cost-correct RAID-5 storage arrays with advanced storage management software to deliver a broad range of data protection capabilities and customer […]

Overland Storage has announced a new dual drive LTO automation product aimed at the extended-functionality loader market. According to the company, the new PowerLoader product establishes a new class of automation product for the high performance and high capacity LTO tape format, providing many of the features normally found in competing automation systems that cost […]

The evolution of the global Internet took a new turn in 2002, according to a new report issued Wednesday by Washington research firm TeleGeography. Since the development of the Web browser, international IP bandwidth deployments have more than doubled each year. This year, however, the growth rate of international Internet bandwidth slowed to just under […]