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A U.K. judge has ruled against Storage Computer in its intellectual property lawsuit against rival Hitachi Data Systems. In a complaint filed earlier this year, Nashua, N.H.-based Storage alleged that Hitachi violated two patents held by its U.K. subsidiary. Storage was seeking monetary damages. “The judge has ruled that neither patent was shown to be […]

The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded AT&T a new contract to provide Web hosting and security services for the federal government’s preeminent heavily trafficked Web portal, http://www.firstgov.gov. AT&T’s Web hosting services are supported by 18 Internet data centers worldwide, with nearly 2 million square feet of Web hosting space. Earlier this year, AT&T’s role […]

Sun Microsystems has announced StorEdge Enterprise Storage Manager (ESM) software for SAN management. The new software provides a centralized management platform for viewing and managing storage environments. The “single pane of glass” incorporates the core management services of SAN topology reporting, device configuration, and proactive health monitoring and diagnostics — helping to increase uptime and […]

Cisco today announced a comprehensive family of multilayer intelligent storage switches, which deliver a number of storage networking innovations to customers and will drive SAN consolidation, increase data availability, and allow customers to more efficiently manage their storage resources. The introduction of the Cisco MDS (Multilayer DataCenter Switch) 9000 Family represents Cisco’s entry into the […]

Faced with dwindling cash reserves and a time lag on collecting software licensing revenues, video compression company On2 Technologies has taken in a $600,000 financing round and moved its operations out of the city as part of a restructuring. In addition, Doug McIntyre, the chief executive of the software company, Strauss Zelnick, the chairman of […]

Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC) announced today that it has again been named market leader for the largest segment of the worldwide tape automation market by a leading analyst firm. Gartner Dataquest’s 2002 Tape Cartridge Automation Market Share and Forecast report named ADIC as the number one market share leader in terms of both revenue […]

‘Zip’ drive creator, Iomega Corp, announced today that it is now shipping a new line of Windows Powered Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers, built with an optimized version of Windows 2000 technology. The new Iomega NAS P400M, P405M, and P410M servers are designed to offer seamless integration into Windows 2000 networks for cross- platform file […]

Groove Networks, a Beverly, Mass., maker of desktop collaboration software, has shipped a new version of its Workspace product featuring integration with Lotus Notes and enhanced instant messaging (IM) capabilities. Workspace 2.1 provides flexible collaboration tools, a secure environment, automatic change notifications, real-time online and mobile offline use, and synchronization with company firewalls. The offering, […]

European wireless operator Vodafone Group PLC may buy out struggling media giant Vivendi Universal’s stake in their joint-venture portal Vizzavi and phase it out, according to a report in today’s Wall Street Journal. Vodafone could pay as much as US $148 million (150 million Euro), anonymous sources told the newspaper. It also said the amount […]

Jeeves Plays Dress-Up In a promotional effort that brings to mind Google’s signature logo changes for holidays and special occasions, Ask Jeeves is introducing “Sharp Dressed Jeeves” — an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the company’s butler mascot. The promotion kicks off on this, the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death, so Jeeves […]

Server revenues in the Asia-Pacific region declined 5.7 percent in the second quarter of 2002 (Q202) from US$1.14 billion to US$1.09 billion when compared to the corresponding quarter in 2001, said Gartner. According to Gartner, the news was not all bad with the region registering almost four percent growth quarter-on-quarter, growing from US$1.05 billion in […]

E-business security provider Cylink Corporation has announced a joint product solution with Expand Networks with solution for accelerating compressed, encrypted data streams. According to the company, Cylink’s encryption devices, coupled with Expand’s ACCELERATORs, will deliver 100-400+% acceleration and yield a 50-80% reduction in bandwidth requirements for business continuity and storage area network applications. Accorinding to […]