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USA.net, a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based eMessaging service provider announced on Friday that it has joined the ranks of Microsoft Gold Certified Partners for Hosting and Application Services. According to Microsoft, the Gold certification program is designed to provide market recognition to service providers that meet the program’s stringent requirements for service readiness, competency and capacity […]

CaminoSoft announced today that it had completed testing and released its new product, the “Storage Analyzer.” This software product when attached to any server with shared storage, either using NetWare 4x, 5x and 6x or Microsoft Windows 2000, will proceed to analyze the status of all storage contained on that server. It provides an age […]

Rocket Software, of Natick, Mass., has bought a business intelligence product line from IBM , of Armonk, N.Y. The applications, sold under the name Visionary, give users a customized graphical views of business data. Financial terms were not disclosed. “By adding the Visionary software to our technology base, we expect to significantly enhance our existing […]

Sanbolic have announced an expansion of their strategic relationship. The relationship brings a RAID storage volume sharing product to the Windows NT and Windows 2000 market. Chaparral will integrate the Sanbolic volume sharing software into Chaparral’s StratisRAID storage products. The integrated software solution, RAIDar Access Manager, provides SAN users with volume sharing capabilities and allows […]

Optical networking equipment maker Ciena Corp. has reorganized its business divisions to support the company’s focus on top-tier service providers worldwide and its move to integrate its next-generation transport and switching product lines. The Linthicum, Md.-based Ciena has combined four product development organizations (Core Transport, Core Switching, Metro Transport and Metro Switching) into two teams, […]

Robert Pittman’s temporary status as head of America Online may also describe his thinking about whether he’ll continue as chief operating officer at AOL Time Warner , The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Citing unnamed sources with inside knowledge of the intrigue, the newspaper said AOL Time Warner’s search for an executive to replace Pittman […]

IBM has delivered a new industrial-strength server hard disk drive designed to take on the most intensive business environments. The Ultrastar 146Z10 debuts with new anti-vibration technology called Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS), designed to improve performance in large disk arrays. Available now, the 146Z10 is the first 10,000 RPM hard drive of its generation to […]

DataCore Software today announced that Hitachi will sell SANsymphony storage management software through an OEM partnership. Hitachi said that it would immediately take advantage of this partnership by reselling SANsymphony version 5.0 into its flagship Japanese home market. Ikuo Kimura, chief operating officer and general manager, Storage Area Network Systems Solution Division of Hitachi said, […]

In a move to help it better span the globe with its online customer relationship management (CRM) service, Salesforce.com today announced that it has added French, Italian and Spanish language capabilities. The San Francisco-based company’s service is now available in eight languages in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The company reports that it […]

InfiniCon Systems today announced the ISIS Starter Kit Program to provide its ISIS Shared I/O System – packaged with a complete host environment – to systems integrators, OEMs, and early adopters of InfiniBand-enabled networks. Scheduled for August 2002 shipment, the ISIS Starter Kit is expected to be the first commercially available shared I/O system based […]

StorageTek today announced a series of new features and enhancements designed to extend the performance and functionality of its Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) virtual tape management system. Additionally, the company unveiled an aggressively priced new version of its VSM system, the VSMe, designed to provide value seeking entry-level customers with an complete virtual tape disaster […]

India is now the undisputed world leader in software services outsourcing but China will become the next dominant player in the same space by 2006, according to a new report by Gartner. By then, both countries will be generating more than US$27 billion each in revenue. Said research director at Gartner, Dion Wiggins: “China is […]