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By Ryan Naraine With net losses ballooning and an early backer dumping its stock at every turn, Web telephone company Net2Phone, Inc. on Thursday announced it would lay off 110 employees and scale back unprofitable businesses. Net2Phone, a pioneer in the Voice-over Internet Protocol (Vo-IP) business, said the staff cuts represented about 28 percent of […]

LoadSpring Solutions Inc., a Lawrence, Mass-based provider of collaboration and application management services, yesterday announced that it has enhanced the security features of its Web-based application, the Collaborative Application Management (CAM) Console. CAM Console, which LoadSpring offers as both a hosted service and a licensed product, is designed to provide organizations with collaborative tools that […]

The second annual Web-Enabled Government Conference will take place March 4-6 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. The Conference, hosted by Falls Church, Va.-based E-Gov, will address the policies, security, integration strategies, and technology necessary to deliver government services. In addition, the conference offers attendees an opportunity to meet […]

Executives and administrators from IT departments around the world chimed in with their picks for the best software and hardware available in 2001 this week. Conducted through online polling of the five to seven best options in each category — ranging from best workstation to best software development applications — the winners of the Datamation.com […]

MTI Technology , a provider of storage and business solutions, today announced a new Vivant S Series model that it said offers a completely configured storage area network (SAN)-based storage solution with up to 8.5 terabytes of capacity in 20U of space. According to t he company, the new Vivant S240, the next step up […]

Myrient , an outsourced IT solutions provider that delivers managed services, has launched a bundled product offering combining its ZIPBackup on-line backup solution and broadband access. The company said the new offering is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. “Market demand has created the need for a bundled broadband and on-line backup solution,” stated Jim […]

SilverStream Software, Inc. , today announced several new and existing customers for it SilverStream eXtend product line, in the first quarter of 2002. The integrated product suite, launched in December, 2001, is designed to simplify and accelerate the development and deployment of the next generation of Web applications using Web services. SilverStream argues that any […]

TheFence.com, a Seattle-based community site, lanched a new version of its Web site Wednesday based on two years of feedback from members. The new site features chat rooms, a shopping section and group and personal calendars. The company said it also enhanced its Reuters news section and reorganized its 500+ debates into 90+ “Fence Posts,” […]

Adaptec, Inc. has expanded its external RAID family of products to include the DuraStor 7220SS, a SAN-ready 2 GB Fibre Channel storage subsystem. The company said this new solution complements its DuraStor 6220SS, the SCSI storage subsystem launched last year. “Storage based in the SAN architecture provides numerous benefits to organizations, like reduced administrative costs […]

Network attached storage (NAS) vendor Tricord Systems has become a premier-level member of the Citrix Business Alliance (CBA) program. As a CBA Premier member, Tricord said it will move beyond fundamental product compatibility testing to a more sophisticated level of joint marketing, and will work with Citrix to provide enhanced application server computing solutions to […]

Enterprise storage vendor nStor Technologies has named its Vice President of Finance and COO Thomas Gruber as Acting President effective immediately. According to the company, former nStor president Thomas Makmann resigned his position to pursue other interests closer to his family on the East Coast. The company said Mr. Gruber brings over 30 years of […]

SwapDrive, a provider of Web- based data storage, announced that more than 30 enterprise level customers, including three publicly traded companies, have implemented SwapDrive online data backup, storage, and recovery solutions over the past three months According to SwapDrive, its service helps organizations quickly and easily access virtually unlimited data storage capacity and capabilities, on-demand. […]