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INRANGE Technologies today announced that it has promoted John Schwab to the position of Chief Financial Officer. The company said Mr. Schwab has served as INRANGE’s Corporate Controller since September 2000, managing the company’s financial reporting and playing a key role in the integration of the three INRANGE acquisitions completed in 2001. Mr. Schwab replaces […]

McAfee, a division of Network Associates Thursday inked a deal with Scandinavian technology company Eterra to offer McAfee’s ASaP line of Web-based managed security services to Eterra customers. As part of the agreement, Eterra will offer the McAfee ASaP services including anti-virus, firewall, and risk assessment solutions. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company says the services […]

Western Digital Corp. today announced the opening of a Customer Service Center in Ontario, Canada. According to Western Digital, the Canadian service center eliminates the need for international customs processes and additional freight charges associated with shipping product into the United States. Western Digital hard drives requiring service from Canadian customers and resellers will now […]

Three Massachusetts companies — MatrixOne , Netegrity and Segue Software — said they will miss quarterly financial targets and layoff employees as the tech slowdown, exacerbated by last month’s terrorist attacks, drags on. Product collaboration software maker MatrixOne will cut 100 employees and contractors, about 15 percent of its staff, as well as consolidate several […]

Software giant, Oracle Corp. yesterday announced the selection of Karta Technologies Inc., a San Antonio-based provider of information technology and engineering service, as the first Learning Service Provider (LSP) for the Oracle iLearning Learning Management System (LMS). The announcement helps to reinforce Karta’s position in the content development market as a provider of e-learning solutions […]

Storage companies Nissho Electronics and Hitachi CP and Alacritus(TM) Software have joined together to bring to market what they say is the first virtual tape library appliance, the VTLA Smart Guard. According to the companies, the virtual tape library technology is used as an intelligent and high-performance front-end cache for physical tape libraries or as […]

Exabyte Corporation, a network backup systems vendor, today announced today that it has signed a joint Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with BakBone Software Corporation, a a network data protection software vendor. According to Exabyte, the MOU specifies that each company will more actively engage in marketing the other’s products, and opens the door for cross-training […]

Procom Technology, Inc. today unveiled the next generation NetFORCE(TM) 3000 series — the NetFORCE 3500 and 3600C. These are the latest additions to Procom’s line of data filers. “With the NetFORCE 3500 and 3600C we are giving users greater choice, control and utilization of their storage assets,” said Parsa Rohani, Procom Vice President of Marketing […]

Enterprise software vendor J.D. Edwards (NASDAQ: JDEC) and systems giant Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced the opening of the J.D. Edwards-Sun Competency Center. Based in Denver, Colo., the centers are designed to test collaborative supply chain applications and technologies that improve time-to-market, smooth process transitions and lower total cost of ownership. According to the […]

The Global MSP Network (GMN), an international association focusing on the advancement of the outsourced management service provider (MSP) channel, today announced the launch of original research on key MSP sales and marketing issues. In conducting this research, the GMN aims to educate the IT marketplace and to advance the successes of the MSP channel. […]

Online business publication, Economist.com, will implement KANA Response from CRM provider, KANA. With KANA e-mail management already in place, Economist.com can handle the 4,000+ inquiry e-mails per month that are generated from the more than one million registered users. KANA Response will enhance the existing system through its scalable Web-architected contact center that improves response […]

Corio Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced plans to further strengthen their strategic partnership by enhancing the existing CorioNet program which enables participating independent software vendors (ISVs) to offer their products through Corio’s application service provider (ASP) model. The alliance between Corio and Sun aims to help ISVs migrate to Corio’s Tier 1 solution. […]