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By Ryan Naraine New York-based Web hosting firm Globix Corp. (NASDAQ:GBIX) has finally filed for Chapter 11 protection under a pre-approved plan and said it expects to emerge from bankruptcy within two months. On Monday, Globix officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors under a previously-announced plan to reduce its debt by approximately […]

By Erin Joyce Verizon Communications , the nation’s largest local telephone provider, said it plans to cut the equivalent of 10,000 jobs from the payroll this year as part of a reduction in force it announced in 2001. Verizon Spokesman Bob Varettoni said the company is looking to cut overtime costs and the use of […]

Conxion Corp., the Santa Clara, Calif-based MSP, today announced it is extending its managed security services to customers using NetScreen Technologies from, a leading developer of ASIC-based Internet security systems and appliances, integrated firewall/VPN products. Conxion has already integrated the NetScreen-500 and NetScreen-100 products into its service offering for customers, and major customers like Borland […]

CommVault Systems has made available CommVault Galaxy enterprise data protection for EMC Celerra Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions. Based on the industry-standard Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP), the company said CommVault Galaxy offers customers a single solution for managing Microsoft Windows and UNIX backup and recovery from a browser-based interface. CommVault also said CommVault Galaxy […]

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory today announced the election results of the iSCSI Consortium Steering Committee for the coming year. The elected representatives include: Jim Bernard, Director — Strategic Development, Adaptec Dave Peterson, Lead Architect — Storage Technology Group, Cisco Systems John Dowdy, Coordinator — iSCSI Architecture and Strategy, IBM Storage Systems Group […]

WebEx Communications, Inc. , the San Jose, Calif-based Web conferencing ASP, today announced that Covisint, the automotive industry’s e-business exchange, will offer WebEx’s multimedia conferencing services to its global members. “Our customers are managing complex manufacturing processes and WebEx’s interactive Web meeting services will improve communications and increase efficiency through the planning cycle and supply […]

Legato Systems today introduced Legato NetWorker Operations software, which the company said simplifies the operation of the Legato enterprise backup and recovery product, Legato NetWorker, increases security through access control, and provides a variety of reports. “NetWorker Operations has proven to be a valuable tool for many of our NetWorker customers who have backup operations […]

Fujitsu Softek, a provider of storage management software, today announced Softek Storage Manager, a standalone enterprise storage resource management solution that it said centralizes and automates storage management in a multi-vendor environment from a single point of control. The company said Softek Storage Manager software allows companies to pool management of disparate data and storage […]

Bocada Inc. today announced the release of Version 1.5 of BackupReport. The company said BackupReport is cross-vendor backup reporting, analysis and billing solution that provides IT professionals with the data necessary to efficiently troubleshoot data protection issues, improve system performance and determine compliance with enterprise policies and service level agreements. Bocada said BackupReport V1.5 includes […]

Quantum Corp. recently announced a family of disk-based products that it said addresses the time required for backup, the confidence in successfully completing backups within the available backup window, and the latency associated with restoring backup data. The company said the enhanced backup product family complements existing tape libraries, optimizes backup performance and provides seamless […]

Digital River, Inc. , a Minneapolis-based e-commerce enabler, today announced it has integrated its products and services into a newly launched e-commerce site for sports watch manufacturer, Freestyle. Under the agreement, Digital River is providing Freestyle transaction management, customer service, fraud screening and physical product fulfillment for the www.freestyleusa.com Web site. “We are pleased to […]

McDATA(R) Corporation says it has received eleven applications to join its OpenReady Developer Program within two days of announcing its Application Programming Interface (API) strategy, called McDATA Connectors. McDATA said McData Connectors offers support for storage networking fabrics and third-party application integration. Representatives from the following companies attended McDATA’s partner event: Accenture, Alidian, Bakbone Software, […]