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Storactive today announced LiveServ, a real-time, versioned backup solution that provides secure, up-to-the-moment protection for data in small to medium-sized enterprises. Complementing traditional schedule-based backup solutions, LiveServ compresses data and eliminates duplicate files. According to Storactive, this reduces the total volume of server data to back up, shrinking or eliminating backup times and extending the […]

As part of its strategy is to assemble an automated content acquisition, management, collaboration and delivery product for mid-market customers, Woburn, Mass.-based TopicalNet Inc. today announced that it has agreed to purchase the assets of LightSpeed Interactive Inc. of Pleasanton, Calif. The deal is designed to combine TopicalNet’s capability to automatically gather, understand and classify […]

Its flagship Bluetooth wireless keyboard, mouse, and USB transceiver bundle won’t ship till October, but Microsoft Corp.‘s hardware team has been keeping busy: Today the company rolls out seven new mice, keyboards, and combos with up-to-date technology and chic color schemes. The Optical Mouse Blue ($35) and Wireless Optical Mouse Blue ($45) feature a new […]

In line with its previously stated strategy, Microsoft Corp. has entered into an agreement with Wistron Corp., the manufacturing arm of Acer Inc., to manufacture the Xbox video game system. Wistron will join Flextronics as a manufacturing partner for Xbox. Earlier, Microsoft relocated its Xbox production plant managed by Flextronics from Hungary to Doumen, China, […]

Bertelsmann AG is the latest big media company beating a retreat from the e-commerce jungle. The German company is reportedly in talks to sell some of its online book selling businesses, possibly to e-tailer Amazon.com . Also about to go, reports said, are its interest in music swapping service Napster and its stake in BarnesandNoble.com, […]

Financial news Web site MarketWatch.com has purchased and locally installed 24/7 Real Media‘s Open AdStream 5.1.2 to handle its ad delivery and reporting. The client win, which 24/7 Real Media described as one of the largest involving its Open AdStream product, comes after the advertising firm inked a deal earlier this week to serve ads […]

StorCase Technology, a Kingston Technology company, is partnering with RAID specialist ICP vortex (an Intel Company) to market its InfoStation II rack mount or tower-version disk enclosure for RAID or JBOD applications as a cluster-ready solution. This combination is geared towards customers looking to avoid the relative high cost of a SAN implementation to achieve […]

European wireless carrier Vodafone Group Plc has wrapped its plans to buy out struggling media giant Vivendi’s 50 percent stake in their content and portal venture Vizzavi Group. Vodafone paid Vivendi (Euro) 142.7 million in cash, or about US $140.4 million. The deal comes as Vivendi looks to sell off chunks of media holdings in […]

Wind River Systems has announced that Intel will use Wind River’s Tornado for Intelligent Network Acceleration (TINA) for iSCSI Initiators platform in its Intel(R) PRO/1000 T IP Storage Adapter. “Wind River’s TINA software technology enhances the benefits to begained from the iSCSI and TCP/IP offload functions on the Intel PRO/1000 T IP Storage Adapter,” said […]

Gadzoox Networks today announced the addition of 3Gb/4Gb and 10Gb Fibre Channel (FC) Media Access Controller (MAC) soft cores to the Company’s recently announced FabriCore Engines technology suite. Gadzoox says they are offering the new high-speed FC MACs to fulfill the demand being driven by the convergence of the SAN and Local Area Network (LAN) […]

IBM today announced it has acquired TrelliSoft, Inc., a privately-held provider of storage resource management software, for an undisclosed sum. According to IBM, the acquisition of TrelliSoft is designed to help meet a growing customer need to manage costs associated with the proliferation of data storage and increase storage resource availability. TrelliSoft will be integrated […]

Promicro Systems today introduced a low priced, high capacity RAID storage system based on technology from leading industry manufacturers. Positioned as a cost-effective alternative to Fibre Channel or SCSI arrays, the ProStore is aimed at organizations that require large amounts of storage capacity and solid performance at affordable prices. The ProStore is available immediately in […]