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By @NY Staff In a deal valued at approximately $3.75 million, New York-based financial information services provider Stockpoint said it would provide Web-based and wireless applications for Barclays Global Investors (BGI). Stockpoint, which is owned by content aggregation firm ScreamingMedia said its technology would power data integration for Barclays. Additionally, the company would develop automated […]

Study: Spanish-Language Web use Growing by U.S. Hispanics/Latinos U.S.-based Hispanics/Latinos are more likely to use the Web in Spanish than English, according to recent findings by the Roslow Hispanic Internet Usage Study. The study, conducted last quarter, found that Hispanic/Latino Internet users are spending 55 percent of their time online using the Web in Spanish, […]

Microsoft Corp. is taking its Windows Media Format into the movie business. On Monday the company said “Wendigo,” an upcoming full-length independent movie by ContentFilm and Magnolia Pictures, will be the first film encoded in the format. ContentFilm and Magnolia Pictures will distribute the film using a preview of the upcoming version of Windows Media […]

OTG Software has formed a strategic partnership with Network Storage Solutions (NSS), a provider of network attached storage (NAS) systems. Through this partnership, the companies said NSS will offer OTG’s storage management software, DiskXtender, with its Thunderbolt line of storage solutions. NSS will offer OTG’s DiskXtender software to manage and consolidate data from Windows NT/2000 […]

BakBone Software NetVault Oracle Online Application Plugin Module (APM) for Oracle9i databases is now available. BakBone said the APM provides fast online backup for Oracle 8, 8i and now 9i databases running on UNIX, Linux, Windows NT and Windows 2000 platforms. Cali Sartor, NetVault APM Product Manager, BakBone Software, said “We are continually updating our […]

Overland Data Inc. Neo series LXN2000 tape library is the recipient of this year’s Arkeia Power Award for departmental excellence in a Linux environment. The award was bestowed at LinuxWorld Expo, held last week in New York City. The Arkeia Power Award, created and distributed by Knox Software Corp., uses formula-based benchmarking analysis to determine […]

Netreon, Inc., a developer of storage management software, today announced the availability of SANexec Manager storage resource management software. The company said SANexec Manager is designed to allow integrators and SAN administrators to configure, monitor, change and report on their SANs more efficiently and more confidently. Netreon also said SANexec Manager integrates seamlessly into the […]

Veritas Software Corporation today announced the Veritas Certified Professional Program (VCPP), a worldwide certification program for product and solution providers who deliver Veritas Software storage management solutions. The company also unveiled enhancements to its Veritas Partner Program. According to the company, the expanded worldwide partner program provides Veritas Software partners with benefits in the areas […]

Fujitsu Softek said it is offering a scalable one terabyte (TB) Storage Area Network (SAN) at about 15 cents per megabyte over a three-year period for less than $100,000. The demonstrated 1TB SAN solution includes Softek Virtualization and Softek SANview(TM) software, a Brocade switch, Dell servers, QLogic Host Bus Adapters and mid-range storage arrays. Fujitsu […]

NEC Corporation’s File Division has completed its certification of Vixel Corporation’s 9200 16-port 2G/s switch for its full line of iStorage solutions. “With the iStorage platform, NEC is able to offer storage solutions to a variety of customer types, all of which meet their 24 X 7,365 day a year availability requirements,” says Yasuhisa Watanabe, […]

The SCSI Trade Association (STA), a member-run industry group established to support and promote SCSI technology, will define the marketing requirements for the Serial Attached SCSI specification and promote the technology to the industry for the Serial Attached SCSI Working Group . According to the organizations, The STA Board of Directors voted unanimously in December […]

Outtask, Inc.,, the Alexandria, Va.-based Business Services Providers (BSPs), today announced the acquisition of 31 new customers during the fourth quarter of 2001. The firm says this brings its total customers at the end of 2001 to 371, an increase of 271 percent over the number at the end of 2000. Among Outtask’s significant wins […]