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The surprising intervention by German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in favor of the online service AOL has taken on an unpleasant aftertaste in retrospect. In an interview with AOL for the “open house day” in the Chancellery, Schröder gave massive support to the Internet provider’s demand for a so-called “flat rate.” The “flat rate” is “a […]

Storage sector leader EMC Corp. unveiled its new line of high-performance Symmetrix storage systems today, touting “hyper-consolidation” as the next wave for enterprises to increase capacity and reduce total cost of information storage. “Hyper-consolidated enterprise information storage delivers two must-have attributes for customers – increased productivity and lower costs for critical resources,” said Joe Tucci, […]

Beijing Bell Communications Equipment Manufacturing Company, whose products are used in switching, access and IP software sectors, has teamed with Portal Software to jointly extend the reach of the latter’s Infranet customer management and billing platform to traditional and emerging telcos offering voice, data, fixed line and wireless services. “Our goal is to provide our […]

Adaptec Inc. , which specializes in data storage access solutions, and scalable storage networking solutions provider InRange Technologies , announced plans to integrate Adaptec’s IP Storage ASIC technology into InRange’s IN-VSN FC/9000 director class switches. The new solution will enable customers to connect geographically dispersed Fibre Channel SANs via IP networks, officials from both companies […]

Financially ailing Internet consultancy Breakaway Solutions Inc., formerly based in Boston, announced it has filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Breakaway said in a statement that it “intends to stabilize its operations while it seeks purchasers for its business.” Less than two weeks ago its president and CEO, William Loftus, resigned, along […]

Asian Internet professional services firm Mercatela has found a buyer to acquire the ongoing contracts and intellectual property of its Hong Kong outfit, which went into voluntary liquidation last week. “From day one of the liquidation it was apparent that a rescue of the business was the only prospect of any recovery to creditors. In […]

Sprockets, a Boston Web-based project management solution provider to marketing groups and advertising and public relations agencies has added Michael Ruffolo to its board of directors. Ruffolo is executive vice president at Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, Mass., where he is responsible for Akamai’s positioning and market strategies. Previously he was executive vice president of global […]

Avnet Computer Marketing’s Hall-Mark Division and StorageTek, which provides digitized data storage, announced a 14-city storage road show for resellers to enhance knowledge of tape automation and data protection. The courses will provide sales tools and training to sell data protection products and services, officials from both companies said. The road show targets sales professionals […]

Promoters of the first annual Storage World Conference, which will be held Sept. 14 in San Jose, Calif., said they have struck an cross-promotional alliance with the IDEMA, the trade association serving the data-storage industry. Terms of the pact call for IDEMA to promote to its membership the Storage World Conference. The Storage World Conference […]

QPS Inc., an Anaheim, Calif.-based maker of DVD-R/RW/RAM, CD-RW and external hard drives for both PC and MAC desktop and notebook computers, said it has launched three new Que! DVDBurners to meet the increased demand for its DVD products. These DVD-R, DVD-RAM drives include the internal IDE/ATAPI Que! DVDBurner, the external QUE! USB 2.0 DVDBurner, […]

StoreAge Networking Technologies, which develops storage technology and products with a focus on Storage Area Network (SAN) architecture, announced today an agreement with Telecinco, the leading Spanish broadcasting company, to deploy its Storage Virtualization Manager in Madrid’s video editing center. The deployment is effected with the active assistance of QUISAR Informatica, S.A., a San Solutions […]

Precise Software Solutions , which optimizes business through application performance management, announced that it has acquired W.Quinn Associates Inc. (WQuinn) for $35 million in a combination of $20 million in cash with the balance in Precise Ordinary Shares. WQuinn can earn additional consideration based on achieving certain revenue and operating income targets. The merger will […]