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Storage Technology Corp.(StorageTek) has realigned its services group into what it calls a full-service organization that addresses all customer needs. The company said its new Global Services Business Unit includes four sections: Infrastructure and Support; Network Interoperability and Integration; Infrastructure and Management; and Business Continuity and Recovery. The first part, Infrastructure and Support, offers traditional […]

Looking to take a bite out of Google’s search technology kingdom, Emeryville, CA-based Ask Jeeves officially launched the Teoma search engine with neat tools aimed at refining Web searches but experts aren’t buying into the hype that Teoma could pose a genuine threat to Google. “Labeling Teoma a Google killer makes for a great headline, […]

Network Appliance announced it is shipping a DAFS (Direct Access File System) storage product, which is a file-access protocol that uses standard RDMA transports such as the Virtual Interface (VI) and InfiniBand for high performance storage access in data center environments. The company said the DAFS Database Accelerator 1.0 is a high-performance extension to its […]

Seagate Removable Storage Solutions (RSS), a Seagate company and a leading manufacturer of computer tape drive and tape head products, today announced the launch of a separate tape-centric website: http://rss.seagate.com . Brad Renfree, director, product line management for Seagate Removable Storage Solutions, said “The new site enables us to better serve our tape customers by […]

Adaptec, Inc. announced today that it has set a new TCP/IP offload (TOE) wire speed milestone critical to the deployment of iSCSI and NAS applications. The company claims to be the first to achieve sustained data throughput of up to 226 Mbytes per second, with data packets as small as 512 bytes. A demonstration of […]

Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC) is upgrading its entire family of Scalar storage networking libraries to 2 Gb/second Fibre Channel interfaces. The announcement covers all Fibre Channel connected models of ADIC’s Scalar 100, Scalar 1000, and Scalar 10K automated tape libraries. “We started shipping 2 Gb storage networking libraries in selected ADIC libraries beginning in […]

INT Media Group, Incorporated (Nasdaq: INTM) today announced that it has signed IBM as the premier business sponsor for its 802.11 Planet Spring 2002 Conference & Expo to be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on June 10-12. 802.11 Planet Conference & Expo is the only trade show in the world focused on 802.11 business, […]

Grand Central Communications Inc., a San Francisco-based Web services infrastructure provider, announced today that it has enhanced its network-based service to enable its customers to more quickly add security, reliability and monitoring to Web services deployments. According to Grand Central, the enhancements are designed to leverage WSDL (Web Services Description Language) to transparently provide advanced […]

IT research and consulting firm META Group said president Mike Levine has resigned “for personal reasons and to pursue other opportunities” after only eight months. Dale Kutnick, META Group CEO and co-research director, will assume Levine’s responsibilities at the Stamford, Conn.-based firm until a successor is named. “These types of changes are always difficult, but […]

Nauticus Networks, a Framingham, Mass., developer of data center switches, has raised $21 million in second-round financing for sales, marketing and engineering. Charles River Ventures, Matrix Partners, and North Bridge Venture Partners were among the investors. Since it was founded in October 2000, the company has banked $33 million. Its first round closed in February […]

By @NY Staff Two senior executives of long haul fiber carrier Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. , have stepped down after the company missed payments on about $674 million worth of bonds and notes. Mark Spagnolo, president and chief executive officer, and Randall Lay, senior vice president and chief financial officer, resigned Monday as the company […]

By @NY Staff USA Networks, Inc. , which is transforming itself into an e-commerce juggernaut under CEO Barry Diller, has snapped up U.K.-based cable network TV Travel Group for about US $100 million. The acquisition brings the TV Travel Shop and its $240 million worth of annual transactions into the burgeoning home of USA Networks […]