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Vixel Corporation , a provider of storage networking products and technologies, announced that Robert Q. Cordell II has been appointed to the Vixel Board of Directors. The company said Mr. Cordell’s experience includes executive management positions with Hitachi Data Systems and sanrise. “Rob Cordell joins the Vixel Board of Directors at a very pivotal point […]

EDS, the Plano, Texas-based business services provider (BSP), today released Teamcenter 2.0, a new version of its product lifecycle management (PLM) software solution. Designed for manufacturing firms, the software aims to help them manage entire product lifecycles in close collaboration with suppliers, partners and customers. “Teamcenter solutions allow manufacturers to capture, share, and manage the […]

Large U.S. Internet service Provider (ISP) EarthLink Wednesday launched its e-mail and Internet access service for wireless devices. The service is aimed at devices using the Palm OS and Pocket PC platforms, the company said. The “new” services are based on technology and other assets acquired from bankrupt wireless ISP OmniSky. Palm OS and users […]

Digital River, Inc. , the Minneapolis-based provider of outsourced e-commerce services, today announced an alliance with SPS Commerce Inc., a supply chain integration service provider. The two companies will offer an expanded suite of e-commerce products and services to the SPS’ small to mid-sized enterprises (SME) customers through leveraging Digital River’s outsourced e-commerce system. The […]

Motorola will use the Macromedia Flash Player as a core component for its EVr-8401 Enhanced TV Viewer – a touch-screen, hand-held device that offers interactive television viewers a second screen for accessing Internet content relating to the TV programming they are watching. By incorporating the Flash Player, the device will enable users to interact with […]

EMC Corp. has qualified the Emulex LightPulse 2Gb/s LP9002DC dual channel HBA as E-Lab Tested for use with its Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems and Connectrix family of Fibre Channel products in Windows 2000 environments. EMC said its E-Lab Tested qualification process is a series of exhaustive performance and reliability tests to ensure the interoperability of […]

QLogic Corp. has introduced the newest member of its SANbox2 family of Fibre Channel switches. Targeted at small to medium sized enterprises, the company said the SANbox2 8-port switch is designed from the ground up to deliver the price/performance of 1Gb Ethernet switches with an expected street price of $5,000 QLogic said the 2Gb SANbox2 […]

Auspex Systems, Inc. , a provider of enterprise storage solutions, announced the forthcoming release of a storage controller that it said will enable enterprises with Storage Area Networks (SANs) from virtually any vendor to access and share files via Network Attached Storage (NAS) protocols. Scheduled to ship in April 2002, the company said the controller […]

JNI Corporation announced that Hitachi Data Systems has certified JNI’s 2 Gb Ready FibreStar PCI and SBus Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) for use in the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900. Two families of JNI HBAs have been qualified by Hitachi Data Systems: the 2 Gb Ready FCE-6460 PCI and 2 Gb Ready FCE-1473 […]

CommVault Systems, a provider of enterprise data management solutions has expanded support for enterprise UNIX, Linux and leading databases with the latest release of CommVault Galaxy, version 3.7.1. According to the company, this latest release extends CommVault’s data protection for IBM AIX and Linux, and leading databases, like Oracle and Informix, to meet enterprise storage […]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a leading metropolitan newspaper, has deployed Dot Hill Systems’ SANnet(R) storage systems to store the newspaper’s extensive databases. SANnet systems are also being used for Web-related projects such as the paper’s career and job listing site. “Our journalists and 1.4 million readers require continuous access to the latest information stored in our […]

Qualstar Corporation has begun shipping its TLS-4000 Tape Library Family with Sony Corporation’s third-generation Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT-3) drives, doubling both capacity and performance of the TLS-4000 Family. The company said the TLS/AIT combination enables companies to backup and restore data at transfer speeds up to 1.2 terabytes per hour. The TLS-4000 family consists of […]