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IONA, a Web services integration platform provider , and HP today announced that they have agreed to expand their strategic alliance. The Waltham, Mass.-based IONA reports that it will make its Orbix E2A Web services Integration Platform – XMLBus Edition available on the HP-UX based on the Itanium processor. With this release, IONA claims that […]

Continuing the momentum of their recent storage management software and virtualization announcements, Sun today announced the StorEdge 3300 Series, products that Sun says extend its promise of Complete Storage Solutions by delivering enterprise features into the workgroup. Available October 15th, 2002, the new storage arrays will bring added value to businesses with small to medium […]

Netreon today announced SANexec Designer support for the latest 2Gb fabric switches, from Brocade: the SilkWorm 12000 64- and 128-port Core Fabric Switch, the SilkWorm 3800 16-port Enterprise Fabric Switch, and the SilkWorm 3200 8-port Entry Fabric Switch. Storage professionals can now use SANexec Designer to easily design, plan and specify the configuration of sophisticated […]

According to the Travel Industry Association of America, an estimated 85 percent of this summer’s travelers chose to drive rather than fly to their destinations, and a apparent winner of this trend is online mapping and location service MapQuest, the wholly-owned subsidiary of America Online. According to the latest Comscore/Media Metrix data for August, the […]

InteQ Corp., a Bedford, Mass.-based management services provider (MSP), and Alternative Resources Corp. (ARC), a provider of IT technology and staffing services, yesterday announced a strategic alliance to jointly market their services. Barrington, Ill.-based ARC provides on-site and off-site help desk outsourcing services. Combining these capabilities with InteQ’s network and infrastructure monitoring and management capabilities […]

Computer giant Dell and Linux developer and open source champion Red Hat will co-host the first Open Source Security Summit at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 29. The summit will provide an open forum to discuss and explore how open source technologies, methodologies, tools, and support processes meet the challenges of securing networks […]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA), addressing the need for secure storage methods, has begun to develop a new standard, IEEE P1619, “Standard Architecture for Encrypted Shared Media,” to help protect information in comprehensive storage environments. The IEEE Security in Storage Working Group (SISWG), which is developing IEEE P1619, will meet […]

Lucent Technologies and Storage Computer today announced completion of the world’s first live optically connected storage network using Fibre Channel Over IP (FCIP) technology for real time data mirroring and replication through an OC-48 network, traversing distances exceeding 2,100 miles (3,400 km). The joint demonstration showcased the ability to support superior performance data replication over […]

Dirig Software, a Nashua, N.H.-based developer of enterprise performance management software, today announced the release of PathFinder, a product designed to automatically identify transaction dependencies across Web servers, application servers and databases. Dirig reports that the patent-pending technology behind PathFinder will allow IT departments to gather relevant statistics for a Web application-based transaction and aggregates […]

Redwood City, Calif.-based Openwave announced on Monday that it will cut 25 percent of its workforce and restructure its operations in order to reduce costs and accelerate its return to profitability. The company’s restructuring plan includes the consolidation of products within each of its three core product groups: mobile infrastructure, messaging applications and client technologies. […]

StorageTek today announced limited availability of it’s new T9940B tape drive. The drive, which StorageTek says is the fastest, highest-capacity tape drive available, advances the company’s leadership position as a provider of best-in-class storage devices, enhanced management capabilities and replication solutions. “Since we laid out the roadmap, our customers have been driving us to bring […]

Looking to help enterprises integrate Web services into their IT infrastructure, Mountain View, Calif.-based Actional Corp. today announced SOAPstation, a management platform designed to transform loosely coupled Web services into secure business services. Web services is standards-based technology that allows different applications from a variety sources to communicate with requiring custom code. Based on XML, […]