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According to IDC, services firms targeting the banking, communications and media, government and discrete manufacturing sectors will drive the IT services market in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan), which will grow at a compound annual growth (CAGR) rate of 21 percent, to reach US$38.8 billion in 2006. And Korea, growing at a CAGR of 28 percent from […]

Quantum earlier this week announced that the Network Storage University, of which Quantum is both creator and major sponsor, will host a national seminar series for storage professionals, “IP Storage – Extending the Enterprise,” featuring noted author and consultant Jon William Toigo. The series will be held in 12 U.S. cities beginning Aug. 21 in […]

CNT has announced that EMC has qualified it’s UltraNet Edge Storage Router for use with EMC’s MirrorView remote replication software. This new offering makes disaster recovery and business continuity solutions affordable enterprise-wide by leveraging new technologies from both CNT and EMC along with cost effective IP networks. EMC MirrorView provides real-time mirroring of critical data […]

Microsoft started its Gold Certification for Hosting and Application Services program two years ago. While ten service providers have met Microsoft’s requirements, no Asia-based companies have qualified for either application or infrastructure management services. That changed earlier this week when Korea Telecom announced it has been gold-certified by Microsoft for its managed Web hosting service. […]

The New York Times reported that telecommunications company Qwest Communications is part of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into how AOL Time Warner booked revenue, specifically $49 million it may have overstated. Last week, AOL Time Warner revealed to securities regulators that it may have improperly booked about $49 million in advertising and commerce […]

The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web Server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its August 2002 survey from 35,991,815 sites. This is a dip from June’s peak of 38.8 million and July’s low of 37.2 million sites. Not surprisingly, Apache, Microsoft, Zeus, and iPlanet remained the key players […]

By Ashutosh Sinha SAP India has won a US$19 million contract from the New Delhi-based Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC), said to be one of the largest contracts in Asia for SAP in terms of the size of the project. Under the agreement, SAP will help ONGC implement “Project ICE” (Information Consolidation for Efficiency), […]

StorageTek has launched a new Tape Mirroring automated tape replication solution aimed at cutting the time, cost and risk involved in simultaneously creating a safe copy of critical information. The new technology forms part of StorageTek’s range of data protection solutions designed to ensure that companies always have timely access to their information assets. Speaking […]

Seagate has decided to use a Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) technology to cram more and more bits of information per square inch into hard disc drives, pushing the limits of magnetic recording even further beyond what was ever thought possible. The Company yesterday demonstrated its revolutionary HAMR, which records data magnetically on high-stability media […]

The Recording Industry Association of America has withdrawn a lawsuit against four U.S. Internet service providers, saying it no longer needs to force the ISPs to block users’ access to a rogue music file-sharing site that has since gone offline. However, a separate action to force another ISP, Verizon Communications’ Internet services division, to identify […]

PowerQuest has announced the release of V2i Protector(TM), a disk-to-disk backup and disaster recovery solution for Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Advanced servers. PowerQuest V2i Protector is supported by PowerQuest’s Storage Lifecycle Automation Management (SLAM) architecture. According to the company, by leveraging it’s Virtual Volume Imaging (V2i) technology, V2i Protector provides businesses a faster and […]

Rhapsody Networks and FalconStor Software have announced that they will deliver an advanced solution designed to help enterprises more effectively manage large and growing corporate data requirements. The companies believe that the solution will bring unprecedented efficiencies to storage administrators responsible for the ongoing management and protection of corporate data attached to storage area networks […]