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South River Technologies, a provider of file transfer and file collaboration software, has merged with Riverfront Software, developer of internet drive mapping software for the Windows operating systems. The company will operate under the name South River Technologies, LLC., and will offer the WebDrive file transfer and collaboration client. Financial terms of the deal were […]

Online CRM provider Salesforce.com has appointed Frank van Veenendaal to its executive management team as Senior Vice President of Sales and Service. Van Veenendaal will be responsible for overseeing sales, consulting services and customer support operations for the Americas as salesforce.com expands into the mid-market with its subscription-based service. “Frank’s appointment to the role of […]

Guardent, a Waltham, Mass., managed security service provider (MSSP), today announced a $27 million channel agreement with Convergence Communications, a Latin American communications company that serves nearly 1,700 business customers in more than 150 cities. Under the terms of the deal, Convergence will resell Guardent’s full line of 24 x 7 managed security services, which […]

MasterCard Taps Roving Self-service e-mail marketer Roving Software will provide its technology to MasterCard International. The financial services giant will use Needham, Mass.-based Roving’s e-mail marketing tools, Constant Contact, in its roster of online products and services for business customers. Through the arrangement, Constant Contact will appear in MasterCard’s small business customer site. The Web-based […]

As telecom carriers face deep cutbacks, the need to use ASPs for billing and revenue assurance looms larger than ever, says one industry expert. “Shrinking resources such as cutbacks or hiring freezes in billing departments, coupled with the kind of increased demand brought on in recent weeks is stretching back office operations beyond the breaking […]

SilverStream Software Inc. today announced the availability of two new products for both XML and J2EE integration, adding to the SilverStream eXtend product suite that provides integrated services environment for enhancing the creation and delivery of services-oriented applications. SilverStream extend Composer 3.0 (eXtend Composer), a fully standards-based XML integration engine can enable organizations to access […]

Guardent, a Waltham, Mass-based managed security service provider (MSSP), today announced a $27 million channel agreement with Convergence Communications, a Latin American communications company that serves nearly 1,700 business customers in more than 150 cities. Under the terms of the deal, Convergence will resell Guardent’s full line of 24 x 7 managed security services, which […]

By @NY Staff International Business Machines is putting its money where its mouth is on the open source movement by donating $40 million worth of Java-based software to the open source community. Code named Eclipse, the software is to be used in the movement to build a variety of integrated Internet-based applications on a Linux-based […]

Gadzoox Networks today announced it has completed certification of its Slingshot family of 2Gb Open Fabric switches with LSI Logic 1Gb and 2Gb host bus adapters (HBAs) and MetaStor(R) storage systems. The Slingshot family was certified by LSI Logic subsidiary, Storage Systems, Inc. (SSI) and awarded its “Certified Compatible” logo for full compliance in SAN […]

McDATA(R) Corporation today announced it has entered into a three-year OEM relationship with Compaq Computer Corporation. Under the agreement, Compaq will market and distribute McDATA’s hardware and software products worldwide under the StorageWorks and SANworks brand names. McDATA’s Galaxy-class 6000 Series Director and its Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager (EFCM) software are the first products that […]

LSI Logic Corporation today announced the addition of an intelligent, four-channel IDE RAID host bus adapter to its line of PCI RAID products. The company said the MegaRAID i4 is targeted at cost-sensitive storage environments, offering the same advanced RAID functionality found in today’s high-performance PCI SCSI RAID solutions. “The addition of a truly intelligent […]

Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corp. and Seagate Removable Storage Solutions LLC, technology provider companies (TPCs) for the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Program today announced that more than a million Ultrium format tapes have shipped worldwide since September 2000, when products based on the format first became commercially available. According to the companies, the Ultrium format, with 200 […]