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U.S. News & World Report has ranked the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business as the nation’s fourth best school for e-commerce studies. The magazine ranked only Carnegie Mellon, MIT and the University of Texas at Austin ahead of the College Park, Md., school. Overall, the Smith School’s undergraduate program ranked number […]

Rorke Data, a leader in SAN, RAID, and Archive storage solutions for the digital Post-Production, Broadcast, and Prepress industries, announced today that it will demonstrate the first ever file-level SAN management application developed for Apple Computer’s Macintosh OSX operating system. Rorke Data, in partnership with its sister organization, Bell Microproducts Enterprise Solutions Europe, located in […]

Western Digital today announced the addition of its 200 GB capacity “Drivezilla” hard drives to its Caviar Special Edition product family. Western Digital’s Special Edition hard drives feature an 8 MB cache size – four times larger than the industry standard 2 MB cache size. The Company’s 200 GB capacity WD Caviar 7,200 RPM hard […]

Following an unprecedented multiple-year decline in server unit sales – the most closely correlated market indicator for Quantum’s storage sales – Quantum is improving its cost structure to achieve its goal of becoming profitable by the end of the current fiscal year. “Quantum has recently completed the most aggressive series of new product launches in […]

Intel has unveiled four new RAID controllers which, according to company, makes them the first company to offer a full line of RAID controllers supporting all of the leading storage interconnect standards, including Serial ATA, Ultra320 SCSI and 2-Gigabit Fibre Channel. All are based on common drivers, development tools and firmware, intended to make product […]

Nearly 46 million Americans accessed the Web at work during August 2002, representing a 17 percent increase over the same time last year, Nielsen//NetRatings revealed. According to hour-by-hour analysis from Nielsen//NetRatings, online usage at-work begins at 8 a.m. and tailors off around 4 p.m., with peak hours between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m., and overall […]

Serial ATA, the next-generation storage interconnect, is gaining steam within the storage industry. The Intel Developer Forum (IDF), being held this week in San Jose, CA., has hosted a number of Serial ATA demonstrations and related announcements. As Serial ATA-based products are starting to roll out, significant milestones are being achieved. New and recent accomplishments […]

Downtime can cost a company millions. In the United States, for example, downtime would cost a large brokerage firm US$6.5 million each hour. Although technology is of paramount importance in keeping data availability high during major business interruptions caused by power failures, capacity glitches or natural disasters, attention should be also placed on the physical […]

Atomz, a Web-native ASP that offers site management and search software, announced at the Seybold Conference numerous enhancements to Atomz Publish and Atomz Search applications. The conference is being held this week in San Francisco. “As a Web-native software provider, Atomz is able to continually identify customer needs and enhance our products literally every week,” […]

RampRate, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based company that describes itself as an intermediary for strategic IT sourcing, earlier this week announced that four executives have joined its ranks, all coming from high-profile companies. Gary Price has been appointed to the new position of vice president, client engagement. AJ Kreshock and Josh Finkel are joining RampRate as […]

Maxtor has announced Maxtor MaXLine, its newest generation of ATA drives designed specifically for emerging enterprise storage applications including near-line, media storage and network storage. The MaXLine family features two key features which set it apart from other drive families – capacities up to 320 GB and unique manufacturing and quality processes resulting in mean […]

Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC) has announced the general availability of the latest version of its AMASS for UNIX data management software, AMASS 5.3. The new AMASS version incorporates support for Write-once Read-many (WORM) tape technology and the latest revisions of UNIX operating systems to provide users with high security storage for large data sets […]