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EMC and Oracle today announced the opening of the Oracle and EMC Joint Service Center (JSC). Staffed by service engineers from both companies, the Oracle and EMC JSC, located in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, simulates the many diverse networked storage environments customers are using today to support their Oracle-based applications. According to the two companies, the JSC […]

Agilent Technologies today announced they would acquire the remaining interest in RedSwitch, a leading developer of high-performance switch fabric silicon solutions for the storage, server, networking and telecom markets. Prior to this transaction, Agilent held a 74 percent interest in the RedSwitch, a Milpitas, Calif.-based company. RedSwitch, a privately held company with approximately 80 employees, […]

Optical wireless technology supplier Omnilux, Inc. released its new wireless broadband platform this week, designed to supply Internet service providers (ISPs) with an alternative to digital subscriber line (DSL) or cable high-speed services. Omnilux uses proprietary technology innovations in free-space optics to deliver bandwidth up to 100 Mbps to a small, rooftop node that in […]

Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS), launched some 18 months ago and aggressively pushed by global mobile communications players such as Nokia, is no longer a hype but reality. Its rich media format designed to enable users to send and receive video and still images combined with voice and text messages on a wireless device such as […]

Finisar has announced that it has updated its industry leading performance monitoring system, SAN QoS, to version 2.0. SAN QoS provides detailed and accurate continuous full line rate monitoring of 1 and 2 Gb Fibre Channel SAN Traffic. With the new tools, Finisar says that SAN managers now have access to the critical information that […]

SAN Valley Systems together with CipherOptics and veteran security firm Cylink have announced that their respective products have completed interoperability testing to create secure Fibre Channel SAN connectivity solutions over IP infrastructures. The result from the collaboration is complete data security and privacy over extended distances at wire speeds. SAN Valley products work in conjunction […]

A new industry group, founded by the unlikely alliance of vendors and security consultancies, is set on establishing guidelines for handling security problems with the goal of protecting Internet users. The Organization for Internet Safety (OIS), which officially announced its formation today, aims to establish a best practices list by early 2003. Founding members include: […]

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court approved on Wednesday the reorganization plan of Alexandria, Va.-based Metrocall, one of the nation’s largest narrowband wireless data and messaging companies. Metrocall expects to emerge from the restructuring process in early October when the plan becomes effective. Metrocall announced in mid-April it planned to seek bankruptcy protection by the end of […]

Phoenix-based ITax Group Inc. announced today that The Home Depot will use its Web-based job tax credit screening automation service. JobCredits is designed to screen applicants for national, state and local hiring-related tax credit programs — potentially saving companies thousands or even millions of dollars. The latest version of JobCredits, which ITax Group announced on […]

CommVault Systems and XIOtech today announced a “Disk-Based Data Protection” solution coupling CommVault’s Galaxy backup and recovery software with XIOtech’s adaptive storage architecture. The joint disk-based backup solution offers the ability to use XIOtech’s MAGNITUDE storage platform as a primary backup medium, virtually eliminating backup-media access time and dramatically increasing backup and recovery performance. By […]

EMC has announced the acquisition of Prisa Networks, a privately held supplier of SAN management software, for $20 million. EMC said that Prisa’s software, which is optimized for managing small to medium SAN environments, further augments EMC’s ability to deliver automated networked storage capabilities. The Prisa purchase represents EMC’s eighth software acquisition in three years. […]

Rainfinity today entered the storage management market with RainStorage, the first plug-and-play appliance to offer uninterrupted data access while moving data between network attached storage (NAS) devices. “Today, as IT professionals are starting to realize the benefits of networked storage, we are seeing a trend of moving away from direct access storage (DAS). Data migration […]