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QLogic Corp. has partnered with Overland Data to offer a storage area network (SAN) solution to small and medium businesses. According to the companies, users can set up an entry-level SAN data protection configuration with 2.8 TB of native capacity for applications such as Microsoft Exchange and SQL, using the QLogic SAN Connectivity Kit 1000 […]

Vicom Systems, a data storage management company, has become a member of storage connectivitiy vendor JNI Corporation’s SANpartners Program. Through this program, Vicom and JNI said they plan to provide jointly qualified and mutually supported solutions based on extensive interoperability testing conducted by JNI. “The JNI SANpartners program is an excellent plan to better serve […]

Tek-Tools, Inc., a provider of XML-based software solutions, has made availability Storage Profiler 1.2, a Web-based storage resource management (SRM) solution with enhanced support for NetApp filers. In additon, the company has joined network attached storage (NAS) vendor Network Appliance’s Advantage program. Network Appliance is on the forefront of data access and content delivery in […]

Storage area network (SAN) company and Seagate subsidiary XIOtech Corporation has appointed Kathy Snouffer as president and CEO. As CEO, the company said Snouffer will oversee the continued strategic development and direction of XIOtechs network storage products. Prior to being named president and CEO, Snouffer joined XIOtech from Seagate as XIOtech CFO. Snouffer will report […]

Novell , a provider of networking and directory software and services, said COO Stewart Nelson, is leaving the company after two years in the post and eight years with the company. “(Nelson) has always been a valued executive and his accomplishments at Novell are numerous,” said Jack Messman, Novell’s chairman, president and CEO, in a […]

Decreasing prices led to explosive growth in sales of wireless local area networks (WLANs) in general and home networks in particular, according to a study released Wednesday by In-Stat/MDR. Overall sales of 802.11b WLAN products increased 14 percent in the last quarter of 2001, the study found. Spurred on by rapidly decreasing prices, home WLAN […]

Bothell, Wash.-based electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company Integrex Wednesday named Keith Grinstein, vice chairman of Nextel International Inc., to its board of directors. Grinstein, who in his current position is responsible for all international investments and strategy for both Nextel International and Nextel Communications Inc., also serves on the boards of The Ackerley Group, Car […]

Salesforce.com, the San Francisco-based online customer relationship management (CRM), ASP, today announced that Le Meridien, the luxury hotel group, has chosen salesforce.com’s global CRM solution to help its international sales team, manage relations with clients across 55 countries. Salesforce.com says an important function of Le Meridien’s new CRM solution will be to support the management […]

LSI Logic Corporation’s ITI3280UDCH-S CompactPCI dual channel HVD (high voltage differential) SCSI HBA has achieved Solaris Ready Certification from Sun Microsystems. Sun said the Solaris Ready logo identifies technologies that have passed Sun’s standards for reliability, integration and ease-of-installation into Solaris Operating Environments (OE). According to the companies, in order to receive the Solaris Ready […]

Empliant, Inc., the Raleigh, N.C.-based provider of ASP-delivered, human resources (HR) software, today announced a reseller agreement with deciphr, a Greensboro, N.C.based cutting-edge HR consultancy. Under the agreement, deciphr will market and sell Empliant’s suite of Web-hosted HR and management products, which include tools for automated online content management, interactive transactions, surveys and HR administration. […]

Dot Hill Systems , a provider of storage networking solutions, announced that its SANnet 4000 series storage system is being used for data analysis in conjunction with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory. “As an astrophysicist, I was interested in increasing the […]

Compaq Computer Corporation this week announced a wide range of new enterprise storage products that the company said are designed to increase the versatility and power of existing Compaq storage area network (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS) offerings. According to Compaq, StorageWorks by Compaq MSL5052S provides an answer to backup and restore requirements in […]