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InterOPS Management Solutions, a Medford, Mass., provider of managed Internet services, has elected Eduardo Pontoriero, a 20-year industry veteran, to its board of directors. “Eduardo brings a wide range of experience and expertise,” said Dave Myers, InterOPS president and CEO. “His current position at Fidelity Broadband, as well as his past responsibilities at Compaq, will […]

A new field study has found that Bluetooth and 802.11b wireless local area networks can co-exist without interfering with each other’s operation. The study, released Tuesday, was conducted by The Pennsylvania State University’s Applied Research Laboratory and Wireless Infotech Education Services. Both technologies use parts of the same unlicensed spectrum and there has long been […]

Storigen Systems, a Lowell, Mass., maker of distributed data storage systems, has raised $15 million in second round financing, to help it ready its product and staff for a national launch. Pilot House Ventures was lead backer. Battery Ventures, Charles River Ventures and OneLiberty Ventures also participated. In all, the privately held firm has banked […]

By Ryan Naraine Forced to deal with an extended ad market recession that has hurt revenues, New York-based niche topic portal About.com has joined the list of Internet companies scrapping freebie offerings to Web users. The Primedia-owned company said it would no longer offer free e-mail and free Web page hosting on its network. Instead, […]

SANcastle Technologies, Inc., provider of multi-protocol switch, the GFS-8(TM), for both Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and Fibre Channel (FC) networks, and Anritsu Company’s Network Solutions division, a provider of IP-based networking and communications products, today announced they are teaming to offer an integrated solution for storage and data networking. Based on a multi-year reseller agreement, Anritsu […]

Auspex Systems, Inc. , a provider of enterprise storage solutions, today announced three additions to the family of NS3000 storage appliances introduced last May. The new products will include a fibre-based network server with added fault tolerance and a high availability server pair — both shipping this month — plus a fabric-attached storage solution scheduled […]

DataCore Software, a provider of storage virtualization and networking software, has introduced a new storage consulting service. DataCore said the new service, offered by DataCore’s Professional Services group, thoroughly analyzes the costs, return on investment (ROI), total cost of ownership, and payback periods of current and proposed storage configurations to ensure that the chosen storage […]

AMC Corporation , an IT solutions provider and one has just been recognized as a Sun Microsystems Storage Elite Partner. Other recent achievements for the firm’s Storage Solution Practice, include adding Sony’s Digital Tape Format Storage Line to its Strategic Partner List in July; achieving Brocade Fabric Partner Status in September; and being named as […]

Crescent Networks Inc., LuxN and SAN Valley Systems announced today the successful interoperability of Crescent Networks’ Dense Virtual Routed Networking (DVRN), the LuxN WavSystem and SAN Valley’s IP-SAN connectivity solutions. According to the companies, the interoperability demonstrates a profitable routed network services solution for delivering high-speed storage services across multi-service metro networks (IP, Optical, ATM, […]

Winchester Systems announced a new heterogeneous storage appliance called FlashDisk OpenNAS. The company said the storage appliance permits adding storage to a LAN “on-the-fly” without bringing the LAN or servers down or disrupting users and supports. Winchester also said the product also supports snapshot backups. It is powered by Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Appliance software […]

Quantum Corp., a supplier of tape storage products, today announced a North American reseller support program. The program, entitled Quantum DLTtape Access, uses a custom Web site to make available product training, marketing and technical information about Quantum’s DLTtape and Super DLTtape products to resellers who register on-line. The goal of the Quantum DLTtape Access […]

SAN Valley Systems this week launched its Bandwidth Partner Program, which teams storage solution providers and managed bandwidth providers to supply pre-qualified, end-to-end Storage Area Network (SAN) connectivity. Yipes Communications joins as the founding member of SAN Valley’s Bandwidth Partner Program. SAN Valley said its Bandwidth Partner Program simplifies and streamlines the decision-making process for […]