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eHealthDirect, a Lexington, Mass., developer of online health plan administration software, has raised $43.8 million in second-round financing and changed its name to deNovis. Lead backer was 3i. First round investors Advanced Technology Ventures, Audax Ventures, Bain Capital Partners, J.P. Morgan Partners, Psilos and Utah Ventures also reaffirmed their support. “This round of funding is […]

Adaptec, Inc. today announced the reseller availability of two zero-channel RAID (ZCR) controllers at a price the company said is aimed at bolstering the “white box” industry, saving the builders of “non-branded” servers more than $100 over similarly featured single-channel controllers. “Adaptec’s zero channel RAID cards offer the cost advantage of a built-in RAID on […]

EMC Corporation today introduced 2-Gigabit per second (2Gb) Fibre Channel solutions featuring EMC CLARiiON and EMC Symmetrix systems, EMC-qualified interoperable storage hardware and software elements, and EMC migration services. “Simply announcing new 2Gb technology doesn’t automatically enable customers to derive value from that technology, which is why EMC goes the extra step to provide complete […]

MTI Technology Corp. today unveiled the newest additions to its Infinity(TM) line of tape libraries, the Infinity 1685 and 1695. According to MTI, the new libraries offer over 500 TB of total capacity and is a key component of MTI’s Business Continuity solutions, which combine MTI Vivant(TM) storage area network (SAN) and network attached storage […]

Gadzoox Networks Inc., a supplier of storage area network (SAN) products, today announced that its 2Gb Slingshot switch family has been certified by JNI Corporation to be interoperable and compatible with their entire family of PCI, CompactPCI and SBus 2Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) connected to Solaris-based servers. According to the company, 2Gb […]

CommVault(R) Systems Inc. today announced expanded support for enterprise UNIX systems with the latest release of CommVault Galaxy(TM), version 3.7.0. The company said this this latest release extends CommVault’s data protection offering for UNIX and Linux, adding platform support for IBM(R) AIX and Compaq(R) Tru64 (in addition to Solaris and HP/UX). “Over the past 18 […]

The market for Wireless-enabled Application Service Provider’s (W-ASP) is not looking so hot according to a report from research firm Cahners In-Stat Group, which says the growth in use of wireless services has not aided the W-ASP industry in 2001. The report, ‘W-ASPs — How Potent is Your Sting’, cites the limited bandwidth of public […]

NAS vendor Network Appliance today announced it has partnered with Lucent Technologies to offer enhanced content delivery capabilities to Lucent’s Kenan(R) IP Services Software. The two companies said they will couple Network Appliance(TM) solutions and Kenan IP Services Software to enable service providers to bill for premium content delivery services from their networks. According to […]

Seagate today announced it has shipped its one-millionth 15K-rpm disc drive. In addition, Seagate released its second-generation Cheetah X15-36LP. “Market acceptance and adoption of 15K-rpm drives has been significantly greater than that of 10K-rpm drives, with Seagate’s 15K Cheetah seeing wide integration by some of the largest OEMs,” said David Reinsel, research manager at IDC. […]

Snap Appliances(TM) today unveiled the 160GB Snap Server(R) 2200, a two-drive desktop NAS appliance that the company said is optimized for network file serving and backup. According to Snap Appliances, the Snap Server 2200 provides cross-platform file sharing in mixed Windows, NetWare, UNIX Linux, and Macintosh environments. The disks are configured to provide RAID 1 […]

By Ryan Naraine Looking to latch on to the wild popularity of instant messaging as an always-on tool to reach new customers, the Keebler Company has struck a deal with New York-based ActiveBuddy to run promotions on the SmarterChild IM buddy/bot. The SmarterChild bot, which dishes real-time news via IM, first started sending hyperlinks to […]

Imation Corp. today announced it is offering its independent enterprise storage consulting and testing services to the government market on the GSA schedule. Imation said the offerings, listed under GSA contract number GS-35F-5594H, are facilitated by Imation’s senior storage architects and engineers, and are designed to help government agencies effectively deal with their most pressing […]