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By Ryan Naraine With advertising revenues drying up and parent company Primedia, Inc. having money troubles of its own, niche-topic portal About.com has shaved its workforce again and is planning a big jump into the e-commerce space, according to a document obtained by atNewYork. News of About.com’s plans to roll out an e-commerce strategy comes […]

Dot Hill Systems Corp. , a provider of carrier-class information storage and storage area network (SAN) solutions, this week unveiled its SANnet(TM) Axis intelligent storage appliance for the first time in Europe at Stockage 2001 — IT Storage Forum, at the Paris Expo Porte De Versailles. Dot Hill said SANnet Axis provides the ability to […]

Pirus Networks, a storage networking company, this week announced that it has closed an additional $9.5 million in funding from JAFCO Ventures as part of a Series B round, which brings the total raised by Pirus to-date to more than $55 million. The new funding is targeted to expand the company’s marketing, sales and support […]

Ecrix Corporation today announced that its new VXA AutoRak(TM) will be available by year’s end. The VXA AutoRak is a rack-mountable tape storage autoloader that stores up to 660 GB of compressed data for companies. “We continually try to anticipate storage needs and requirements in the small-to-medium sized business market with VXA technology,” said Bill […]

McDATA(R) Corporation this week announced it has completed its asset acquisition of SANavigator, Inc., the former storage network management software subsidiary of Western Digital Corp. With the close of this transaction, McDATA takes ownership of substantially all of the assets of SANavigator, Inc., including its SAN management software, for $29.75 million in cash. “McDATA has […]

Corio Inc. , a San Carlos, CA-based enterprise application service provider (ASP) and PeopleSoft ASP Outsourcing Provider, yesterday announced National Gypsum Company, a Charlotte, NC-based manufacturer and supplier of building and construction products as its new customer. Corio will both implement and manage its PeopleSoft Financials, Human Resources, and Payroll solution for National Gypsum which […]

McDATA Corporation this week announced the expansion its market in Europe with the opening of a sales office in Paris. The company said the office was opened to better serve McDATA’s expanding European market. McDATA’s European headquarters are located in Ottobrunn, near Munich, Germany. Other European subsidiaries and offices are located in the United Kingdom, […]

Investors, understandably cautious during this technology industry downturn, still seem willing to take a chance on data storage. Today’s example, Marlborough, Mass.-based Cereva Networks. The company has raised $51 million from corporate and institutional backers including: Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Goldman Sachs, Intel Corporation, Worldview Technology Partners and Sumitomo Corporation, […]

Enterprise software ASP and IT services provider EYT today announced that it is branding its application and managed infrastructure services IBEAM. Formerly Ernst & Young Technologies, EYT takes a full-service approach to the ASP model, delivering both enterprise applications (its software partners include Lawson, Microsoft Great Plains and Oracle) and managed services, ensuring that the […]

Software giant Oracle Corp., today announced a significant pan-European partnership as UK-based BT Ignite Content Hosting, a provider of integrated hosting solutions will become the first European partner to deliver on Oracle’s E-Business Suite Online Any Place strategy. BT Ignite’s extensive European network of Internet Data Centres, will make Oracle’s E-Business technologies available to organizations […]

Quadratec Software, developer of the Time Navigator software platform for backup and restore services, today announced that it has changed its name to Atempo Inc. . “In today’s storage networking age, IT service providers must deliver the quality of data storage management support their customers require,” said Bill North, director of research for storage software […]

Storability, Inc. today announced the release of the AssuredStorage(SM) Management System (ASMS), which it says is the first commercially available storage services delivery platform. According to Storability, ASMS is specifically designed for service providers who want to add storage services to their portfolio of other service offerings, and for enterprise IT organizations making the move […]