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Aspective, a U.K.-based ASP that specializes in sales, marketing and customer service applications, yesterday announced that it has exceeded it revenue expectations for the first half of 2002. The company, which turned cash-positive at the end of last year, reports 2002 revenues to date of $15 million (£10 million). “In one of the toughest markets […]

‘New Hewlett-Packard’ (HP) should consider a mix of its ‘old HP’s” channel management strategy and Compaq’s selling and channel management strategies for the best business outcomes, said a Gartner report that focuses on the likely impact of the new HP’s Asia Pacific channel strategy on business partners and end users. In recent years, HP’s direct […]

The Technical Committee T13 of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) has announced that it will begin work immediately on a new BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services 3 (EDD-3) Standard, which builds on EDD-2 to address emerging storage technologies. The standard will provide a BIOS interface that operating systems can use to access […]

A new study by IDC has revealed that worldwide spending on storage utility services will reach more than $1.2 billion by 2006, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32%. Based on new assumptions taking into account changing market forces, this study shows that much storage-on-demand spending to date has been done as part […]

Continuing to take aim at Citrix MetaFrame, New Moon Systems Inc. yesterday announced the release of Canaveral iQ version 1.5, a server-based computing software platform designed to deploy and manage Windows applications across private and public networks. Canaveral iQ works in conjunction with Microsoft Terminal Services to provide a server-based computing environment. In contrast to […]

In May, Abridean Inc. president and CEO Sean Sears said the application infrastructure provider market was on the cusp of rapid growth. The Halifax, Nova Scotia-based company backed up that assertion when it announced that AT&T Canada would use AbrideanProvisor (see Abridean Gets the Call). Today, the company announced another significant customer win, reporting that […]

Vixel announced today that HP has implemented Vixel’s InSpeed Model 310 Embedded Storage Switch into its Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) platform based storage solutions. In addition to shipping InSpeed with new EVA (v2) platform storage solutions, HP is also offering retrofit upgrades to existing EVA platform users. InSpeed technology is an advanced switching architecture coupling […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Board of Directors approved the charter for the formation of the Storage Security Industry Forum (SSIF) last week during a meeting in San Jose, Calif. According to the SNIA, the forum is a customer- and market-focused vendor consortium dedicated to increasing the availability of robust storage security solutions. The […]

Subscription revenues for online financial news service TheStreet.com surged by 74 percent compared to last year’s second quarter, helping the publication narrow its net loss. Thanks to intrepid investors who stuck with the markets and looked for specialized publications to help them navigate the turmoil, TheStreet.com managed to pull its net losses down to $2 […]

LivePerson’s application allows companies to interact with their customers in real time. WebSideStory’s service let companies know what customers are doing when they visit a particular Web site. Both companies’ products are tools that savvy e-marketers can use to increase sales and customer satisfaction. Looking to provide one-stop shopping for online customer interaction and Web […]

NSI Software today launched its “Data Replication for the Real World” initiative. to eliminate the long-standing barriers-to-entry for businesses seeking disaster recovery and high-availability solutions. The initiative will enable the highest level of accessibility, affordability and usability to data protection solutions through NSI Software’s replication products, OEM and reseller partnerships and data protection services from […]

Imation today announced the shipment of its two millionth 3590E extended capacity half-inch tape cartridge. These cartridges are available from Imation as the Imation Black Watch 3590E and from IBM as the IBM 3590 Extended High Performance Cartridge Tape. Imation developed the 3590E tape cartridge in tandem with IBM and launched the technology in February […]