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Palm Inc. said Tuesday that it has started shipping a Bluetooth card for short-range wireless connections between its handhelds and other Bluetooth-enabled devices. The postage stamp-sized card fits into the expansion slot of recent Palm handhelds. The handheld can then automatically connect with other nearby Bluetooth-equipped devices. For instance, the card comes with software that […]

By @NY Staff The Online Publishers Association is launching a study to size up the market for paid online content. The industry trade organization said the research results would segment the market by categories of content as well as by payment models. It expects to release the results by summer of 2002. The study announcement […]

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, (FCPA), a supplier of hard drives and computer peripherals, has formed the Partner Force Program for storage solution providers and value added resellers (VARs). The company said the program will offer pre-sales, post-sales, and technical support to the company’s partners. According to FCPA, the Partner Force Program was developed to […]

Netreon, Inc., a developer of storage management software, has hired Edward Cooper, a former marketing executive at Novell and Legato, as Vice President of Marketing. “I am delighted that Ed is bringing his experience in the storage industry and marketing acumen to Netreon’s executive team,” said Bob Davis, president of Netreon. “Ed has the right […]

St. Bernard Software Open File Manager product has been awarded Tivoli Ready certification with IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager backup solution. Tivoli Ready is the official program where products are tested and certified for compatibility with Tivoli solutions. The program recognizes third-party products, such as Open File Manager, which have met interoperability and functionality requirements with […]

In February 2002, Gartner surveyed almost 700 IT resellers across 11 countries in Asia Pacific to find out their opinions on the proposed HP and Compaq merger. The results showed that almost 60 percent believed that the merger was either good or pose little difference to them while more than 20 percent thought it would […]

Continuing its campaign to aggressively target the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market, Salesforce.com, a provider of Web-based saleforce automation and customer relationship management software, today announced a strategic alliance with Cybrant, a company that specializes in complex selling automation (CSA). The goal of the alliance is to allow salesforce.com customers to extend their online CRM […]

Hitachi Ltd. of Japan has completed its certification of Vixel Corporation’s 9200 16-port 2 Gb/s switch for use with its Hitachi SANRISE 1000 Series of storage solutions (available from Hitachi Data Systems outside Japan as the Hitachi Freedom Storage Thunder 9200). Also certified by Hitachi Ltd. was Vixel’s 9300HA 16-port 2 Gb/s switch, which features […]

Legato Systems, Inc., an enterprise storage management software vendor, has made available Legato NetWorker 6.2, which the company said adds the capability for Windows-based backup servers to deliver enterprise-level protection of UNIX and Windows data for NDMP-compliant (Network Data Management Protocol) Network Attached Storage (NAS) file servers. Legato said NetWorker simplifies, centralizes, and automates backup […]

FalconStor Software, Inc. and Novell, Inc. have formed a partnership to deliver what they call advanced network storage infrastructure to Novell NetWare platforms over IP/iSCSI and Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs). The companies said they have teamed up to jointly develop a storage vendor and interface agnostic SAN solution for NetWare platforms, enabling the […]

Emulex Corp. has completed interoperability testing with Tivoli Software, IBM Software Group, for compatibility between its LP9002L Fibre Channel host bus adapters and Tivoli Storage Network Manager software in Windows 2000/NT operating environments. “Tivoli Storage Network Manager helps IT professionals meet the challenge of managing tremendous data growth,” said Jose Iglesias, director, Tivoli Storage, IBM […]