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Vocus, Inc., a provider of Web-based software for public relations automation (PRA), is opening additional offices in France and Hong Kong. The two new offices expand the company’s ability to sell and deliver enterprise-class software to the worldwide marketplace. The Lanham, Md.-based company launched French, Spanish, and English International versions of its software in March […]

Six members of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced the first major interoperability initiative registered under the SNIA Supported Solutions Forum (SSF) to enable data mirroring between geographically dispersed sites for backup/recovery, and to connect remote Storage Area Network (SAN) islands to create a single fabric. Hitachi Data Systems, Inrange Technologies Corporation, IBM, […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association — made up of six competing data storage technology companies — has unveiled its first brainchild: interoperability initiatives for data mirroring and extending storage area networks (SANs). The SNIA, which includes Hitachi Data Systems (part of Hitachi ), and IBM , said it has just wrapped its testing on two […]

24/7 Real Media U.K. Wins New iTV Contract Real Media Europe, a unit of 24/7 Real Media has closed a new ad serving deal with NTL, the largest cable company in the United Kingdom and one of the major players in interactive TV. As a result of the two-year deal, NTL will use 24/7 Real […]

Following its strategy to aggressively target what it describes as “the rapidly growing European small business and consumer Web publishing markets,” private-label Web-site building ASP Trellix Corp. today announced that it has signed an agreement with Host Europe PLC. Host Europe’s services include shared server hosting, dedicated servers, managed services, server co-location and domain name […]

New efforts to curtail spam continue at a fever pitch as another startup, MailFrontier, launches its multi-part answer to the problem — with a public beta of its new product and its first investment from venture backers. Draper Fisher Jurvetson and New Enterprise Associates led the $5 million funding round, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based firm’s […]

Okapi Software has announced ipXpress, an iSCSI appliance software kit that allows iSCSI storage using native IDE/ATA and Serial ATA drives with its new ipXpress(TM) aimed at VARs and OEMs. The announcement comes a month after Okapi’s launch and the introduction of its iSC110/220 iSCSI disk appliances and proprietary ipKEY technology. ipXpress is priced at […]

Overall 2002 storage revenues will not see any significant upturn, according to a report published by Peripheral Concepts, Inc. In calendar year 2002, a number of companies will show lower revenues than 2001 just because their first half of 2001 was still very strong. But, says the report, storage networking is suffering less than the […]

Boosting its educational software offerings, Riverdeep Group will pay Gores Technology Group $57.2 million for its Broderbund subsidiary. Broderbund’s applications include Print Shop, Print Master, Family Tree Maker, American Greets, 3D Home Architect, Calendar Creator and Cosmopolitan. They allow users to create, personalize, and share projects such as newsletters, greeting cards, banners, digital photo albums, […]

CyberSTOP, a Washington, D.C., Internet cafi, is offering free high-speed wireless Internet service. The broadband wireless network, which utilizes Wi-Fi (802.11b), can be used by anyone with a laptop or PDA using an industry-standard Wi-Fi card. While a number of Washington hotels and restaurants offer wireless hotspots, CyberSTOP is the first to offer free service. […]

Adaptec and Seagate today continued driving channel adoption of Ultra320 SCSI by providing the first complete solution to resellers for system prototype development, testing and evaluation. “By bringing the first complete Ultra320 solution to resellers, Adaptec and Seagate are once again extending their technology and market-share leadership in the channel,” said Ahmet Houssein, vice president […]

Quantum today announced the Guardian 4400 Network Attached Storage (NAS) server, the latest addition to it’s Guardian NAS family of products. Guardian 4400 features maximum RAID 5 transfer rates of 160 megabits/second, hot swappable drives, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports and two capacity points, 480GB and 640GB, in a high-density 1U (rack unit) design. Key features […]