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Analysts expect data storage leader EMC to consider further job cuts the company tries to return to profitability in the second half of the year, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Last year, the Hopkinton, Mass., company slashed 4,000 jobs (the largest round in September) to offset lagging sales and said it planned to […]

FalconStor Software announced that its storage infrastructure software IPStor will support storage networks based on INRANGE’s Virtual Storage Networking (IN-VSN) architecture. According to the companies, IPStor has successfully completed qualification testing for interoperability with the 64-port and 128-port models of INRANGE’s IN-VSN FC/9000 Fibre Channel Director. The companies also said IPStor’s end-to-end security, redundancy and […]

SwapDrive, a provider of Web-based data storage, has released its Palm wireless application. According to the company, SwapDrive for Palm enables mobile users to access, view, and send files utilizing a Palm Web-enabled handheld device. It allows Palm users to access, view text, and send files, which have been previously backed up from their desktop […]

Storage Area Networks (SANZ) is introducing a new family of data management appliances called EarthWhere, a set of products designed for the needs of end users of remote sensing and Geospatial data. Mark Hardy, Director and General Manager of SANZ Geospatial Practice said, “The market that we have targeted includes an estimated 15,000 user sites […]

By @NY Staff Domain name registrar Register.com has completed its $17 million acquisition of online intellectual property company Virtual Internet plc, a deal that gives the Silicon Alley company a leg up in the European market for a new top level domains such as .pro. As part of the acquisition, the New York-based Register.com gets […]

NOP World Forms New Technology Practice Research giant NOP World said it plans to create a new market research consultancy, which will focus on U.S-based technology companies. The New York-based company, a division of publishing and research titan United Business Media PLC , said its RoperASW and NOP Research units would combine research staff to […]

Oracle Corp. has launched its first development center in China, known as the Oracle China Development Center. It is believed that this is the only enterprise software center in Asia that will serve as a development facility created specifically to meet the needs of the rapidly growing China market. Strategically located in the Shenzhen High-Tech […]

Agilera is adding new meaning to the term full-service ASP. The Englewood, Colo.-based ASP will not only lease its customers enterprise software, it also plans to lease the equipment to run it. Arrow Capital Corp., a financial services company that specializes in outsourced vendor leasing programs, today announced that Agilera will use a custom-designed Arrow […]

Human capital management ASP itiliti Inc. today announced the completion of $5,955,000 in Series A financing. “This round of outside financing was very important to the company because it represents all the monies that will be required to fund our plans to reach profitability later this year,” said Wayne Bock, itiliti’s CEO. “With the continuing […]

NaviSite , of Andover, Mass., and Compaq Computer , of Houston, have signed a new sales and equipment alliance. Under the pact, Compaq will promote and sell NaviSite Web hosting services. In return, Compaq will be the preferred provider for NaviSite’s storage and Intel-based servers. Financial terms were not disclosed. “The combination of Compaq’s products […]

XML is proliferating throughout the enterprise, and the need to persist XML content beyond just a single transaction or interaction is resulting in the growth of the market for XML storage technologies, according to a report released today by ZapThink, LLC, an XML-focused industry analyst group. The market for XML data storage technologies was only […]

Vixel Corp., a provider of storage area networking (SAN) solutions, announced today that IBM has verified the compatibility of the Vixel 9100 2Gb/s Fibre Channel Switch for use with IBM’s latest 2Gb/s subsystem enclosures. IBM has successfully completed compatibility testing between the Vixel 9100 and its ProFibre Storage Array DF4000R and DF4000J enclosures. “This illustrates […]