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The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced that it has received an offer of a substantial new contribution of technology aimed at advancing standards-based SAN Management by a group of storage industry vendors. The contributors have developed a draft specification that applies CIM/WBEM object technology to create the basis of a complete management solution for […]

By Erin Joyce The New York Attorney General’s office has joined the fray against spammers by filing a deceptive business practices lawsuit to stop Niagra Falls, NY-based MonsterHut, Inc., from blasting out any more unsolicited e-mails. In a lawsuit filed in New York County, the Attorney General’s office charged that MonsterHut, Inc., its Chief Executive […]

iVillage Completes Acquisition of Promotions.com Women-oriented Web publisher iVillage has closed on its acquisition of Promotions.com. Shareholders of the New York-based direct marketing and promotions firm agreed to the acquisition on Friday. As a result, iVillage, also based in New York, acquired all the outstanding shares of Promotions.com’s stock that it did not already own […]

Supporting its vision of a storage area network (SAN) in every business,QLogic Corp. has announced that its highly integrated Fibre Channel “switch-on-a-chip” has been implemented in the new Cisco SN 5428 Storage Router from Cisco Systems, Inc. The Cisco SN 5428, available today, is the industry’s first storage networking platform to incorporate both IP and […]

By Erin Joyce Technology publisher Ziff Davis Media has sold the assets of its Internet-focused magazine title The Net Economy to Boston-based Advanstar’s America’s Network Companies. The agreement also marks an alliance between two companies that make a business in technology publishing and business-to-business trade shows — two hard-hit sectors in the technology-driven retrenchment of […]

It’s been a rough week for Engage , the Andover, Mass., provider of online advertising software. On Tuesday, it abandoned projections of operating profitability by year’s end. What’s more, Internet investor CMGI offered $11 million for the for 24 percent stake it doesn’t already own. And on Thursday, Engage was notified that its shares are […]

IBM Corp. began the start of what is expected to be about 8,000 job cuts from its ranks, according to a union member with the tech giant. Lee Conrad, national coordinator of Alliance@IBM, said roughly 1,000 jobs were cut from the company’s server group divisions as of today. He said that included about 224 jobs […]

China, currently the largest mobile communications market in the world, will have a great need for value-added mobile services as the number of mobile phone users will soar from its current figure of 160 million to 280 million by 2005. One of the value-added services that the China Mobile Internet Application Protocol Special Group (CMIS) […]

What are the nation’s hospitals thinking when it comes to things such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance, ASPs, outsourcing and vendor relationships? Gordon & Glickson asked hospitals with 250 or more beds about those issues in its Healthcare Technology Survey. The prognosis is that there is both room for growth for […]

VERITAS has announced that its industry-leading VERITAS Foundation Suite(TM) storage management software is now available to customers of Sun Solaris(TM) 9, the latest update to Sun’s UNIX operating environment. VERITAS Foundation Suite combines VERITAS File System(TM), a standard file system for mission-critical enterprise applications, and VERITAS Volume Manager(TM), the industry’s No. 1 storage virtualization solution […]

Fujitsu have unveiled its next generation of low-profile, high-speed and high-capacity hard disk drive (HDD) products, designed specifically for high-performance enterprise computing and emerging market applications. The new Fujitsu MAP and MAS series feature spindle speeds of 10K RPM and 15K RPM, respectively, and deliver capacities of up to 147GB in a 1-inch-high, 3.5-inch form […]

Under a new research initiative, engineers from HP and MIT are working to improve the performance and reliability of wireless networks and devices Faculty, staff and students will focus on problems such as short battery lifespan, balky data transfer rates and inflexible architecture at the new Center for Wireless Studies. The project is part of […]