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By Erin Joyce The New York Times’ Digital unit is now offering free e-email alerts for online readers, a service that could be the makings of its next premium offering. The “Times News Tracker” service enables readers to configure how they would like to receive e-mail notifications when articles that match their interests are published […]

Under a new reseller agreement, Dallas Digital Services (DDS), a provider of enterprise storage networking solutions and services, will sell and support Tek-Tools’Inc.’s Storage Profiler, a Web-based storage resource management (SRM) solution. Under the agreement, DDS will leverage its expertise in mission-critical storage solutions by deploying Storage Profiler on customers’ storage environments to provide a […]

Dell and EMC today announced enhancements to EMC’s software family for customers running Dell/EMC storage area network (SAN) solutions. The companies said that among the enhancements to Dell/EMC ControlCenter Navisphere software, MirrorView software and SnapView software suites is the ability for customers to securely manage storage networks from remote locations and increase the storage network’s […]

StorageNetworks, Inc. , a provider of data storage management software and services has tested and certified Fujitsu GR720 and EMC Clariion IP4700 storage arrays through STORlabs, the company’s interoperability lab. StorageNetworks said the certifications enhance its multi-vendor technology support in its STORos software. According to the company, in addition to the Fujitsu and EMC storage […]

Gartner Dataquest announced today that while disk array growth stalled in 2001, storage software continued to deliver growth as companies looked to better use the storage hardware installed. Worldwide storage software revenue reached $4.9 billion in 2001, a 3 percent increase over 2000. Gartner Dataquest said EMC continued its market leadership in 2001, as its […]

Siebel Systems, Inc. expands its line of industry-specific solutions with Siebel eMedia 7 and Siebel eCommunications 7 for Mobile Carriers. Both products feature enhanced functionalities designed to improve sales, marketing, service, and other customer-facing business processes in order to improve deployment time, rate of end user adoption, and return on investment. The applications join other […]

In a recent report on Web services, Summit Strategies concludes that IBM is the leading Java-based vendor of Web services-enabled tools and infrastructure. “IBM is second to none in its enthusiasm for XML-based Web services,” said the Boston-based Summit Strategies. Web services refers to an open standards-based approach to building and integrating applications, regardless of […]

CNT’s UltraNet Wave Multiplexer has been qualified by EMC Corporation as E-Lab Tested for Fibre Channel storage. CNT said its Dense Wave Division Product (DWDM) is qualified to support EMC’s Fibre Channel- and ESCON-based Symmetrix and CLARiiON enterprise information storage systems as well as EMC’s data replication solutions, SRDF and MirrorView, expanding CNT’s storage networking […]

Network Appliance, a provider of network storage solutions, and Fujitsu Siemens Computers announced an enhancement to their European-wide sales relationship which began in July 2000. As Fujitsu Siemens Computers broadens its product portfolio into the blade server business, the company said it has named Network Appliance as its strategic storage partner for this new server […]

Exabyte Corporation, a network backup vendor, has tested and certified LSI Logic Corporation’sLSI44929 host bus adapter (HBA) with Exabyte’s Mammoth-2 (M2) tape drives. LSI Logic said the LSI44929 is a dual channel HBA designed in the low profile PCI form factor for rack-mount applications and produces over 75,000 I/Os per second using both channels. The […]

Tricord Systems, a developer of clustering software and network attached storage (NAS) appliances, has hired Ron Brown as vice president of business/corporate development and OEM sales. The company said Brown will lead Tricord’s efforts to establish business and OEM relationships with other storage, server appliance, and networking vendors. “A key tenet in Tricord’s strategy is […]

By Beth Cox For the first time in about a year, auction company eBay Inc. ran into a glitch that created a service outage, this time for about an hour and a half. The company’s last significant outage was a year ago last January when a hardware failure took the site down for almost 11 […]