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Federal regulators fined SBC Communications Inc. $6 million Wednesday for violating the terms of its 1999 merger with Ameritech, a Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC) operating in the Midwest. The Federal Communications Commission said an investigation prompted by competitor complaints found that San Antonio-based SBC attempted to restrict the ability of carriers in five states […]

JMR Electronics earlier this week announced StorBlade, a revolutionary approach to rackmounted storage solutions. Designed to maximize available rack space without compromising on features or storage capacities, JMR says that StorBlade delivers the ultimate in affordable, scalable storage solutions in the smallest form factor ever available to IT professionals. Created as a solution for existing […]

Viruses like the recently publicized ‘Opasoft’ and ‘Tanatos’ are spread to nearly every computer throughout China, the official newspaper reported on Thursday. At least 80 percent of computers in China have been affected by “digital viruses,” which increasingly spread through file downloading and Web surfing. Half of the infected machines have suffered data loss, unbootable […]

STORServer, a manufacturer of all-in-one enterprise backup appliances, has announced a new line of disk-to-disk Backup Appliances featuring modular disk technology from Nexsan, a provider of disk based storage solutions. STORServer will now offer a “D-Series” line of appliances, which will feature three new disk-to-disk-to-tape Backup Appliances — the D10000, the D20000 and the D30000. […]

Network Appliance has become the first major vendor to deliver enterprise data center solutions using the InfiniBand Architecture. Network Appliance is now shipping the InfiniBand-based solution from JNI Corporation and Mellanox Technologies with its new FAS900 series enterprise storage systems to provide the core interconnect technology for NetApp Clustered Failover high availability solutions. The InfiniBand […]

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent the bulk of the business market for telecommunications and IT services in Hong Kong, according to a new report prepared by the Yankee Group, a Boston-based research and consulting firm. Service providers view SMEs as a huge, if not well understood, market that is difficult to reach. “More than […]

Bankrupt telecommunications company WorldCom is off the hook for about $182.3 worth of advertising with AOL Time Warner after a bankruptcy court ruled in the telco’s favor Tuesday. The advertising agreement, signed in June 2001, had WorldCom paying a total of $185 million to AOL for advertising placements through the fourth quarter of 2004. In […]

QLogic today announced the SAN Connectivity Kit 2000, a complete 2Gb storage network solution aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises. At an MSRP of $9,999, QLogic says that the SAN Connectivity Kit 2000 offers twice the performance for the same price as it’s 1Gb SAN Connectivity Kit 1000. Available through authorized distributors in North America […]

HP yesterday announced that it is delivering qualification units of its second-generation StorageWorks LTO Ultrium tape drive to six of its key OEM system and library partners worldwide. According to HP this makes them the first vendor to provide partners with second-generation Ultrium qualification units, which will be used for product integration and manufacturing processes, […]

Small businesses will survive the economic downturn, according to research from In-Stat/MDR that predicts the market to slightly swell from 2.2 million small firms in 2001 to 2.3 million by the end of 2002, representing more than one-fifth of U.S. businesses. In-Stat forecasts a small but steady increase in the number of organizations with 5 […]

Following four quarters of improving operating metrics, Nextel Communications activated its ten millionth domestic digital subscriber during September. Company officials attributed the Reston, Va.-based wireless firm’s continued growth to its Direct Connection feature, a long-range walkie-talkie on each phone that allows users to connect to other users within a local calling area. “This is an […]

EMC today introduced a second member of its Clariion CX family, its latest bid to capture business in data storage’s fastest growing segment — the middle market. The CX400 aims to offer high-bandwidth performance while being sensitive to customer price concerns. The product starts at $62,000 for 180 gigabytes of raw capacity and is sold […]