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Tape library vendor Qualstar Corporation this week reported revenues of $51.6 million for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2001,which it says is a 4% increase over the $49.4 million reported last year. Net income totaled $6.7 million compared to $7.8 million in fiscal 2000. The financial results for fiscal 2001 include a one-time non-cash […]

Cisco Systems says the times they are a changing and so is its business structure. The San Jose, Calif.-based computer-networking equipment maker Thursday announced it is shifting from its current three lines of businesses – enterprise, service provider and commercial to form 11 separate and distinct groups. The company says the changes were necessary to […]

PeopleSoft Thursday says it has signed a a $10 million customer-relationship-management software contract with the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS says it is licensing the Pleasanton, Calif.-based company’s CRM platform, PeopleSoft 8, to help upgrade its 35-year-old computer system. As part of the contract, the IRS says it will be using PeopleSoft CRM Marketing, CRM […]

Microsoft said Thursday that some wireless phone users in Europe soon will be able to access their Hotmail accounts via standard cell phones. Specifically, users will be able to receive and send Hotmail messages via Short Message Service (SMS). The service will be offered by a partnership between Microsoft and MIGway, a new joint venture […]

IBM recently announced it is extending its DB2Now! program to enable the migration of existing Teradata customers to an IBM DB2 Data Warehouse. Data warehouses function as central collection points for information on a company’s customers, products and all the transactions in between. They combine server and storage hardware, database software and incorporate analysis tools […]

A top executive at troubled Web consulting firm iXL Enterprises who was to become the new chief financial officer after its pending merger with Scient won’t be around to take the new job. Atlanta-based iXL announced that Michael J. Casey, iXL’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, will leave the Atlanta company Sept. 10 […]

Despite looming clouds of regulatory and congressional scrutiny, Microsoft Corp. Friday morning heralded the delivery of Windows XP to computer manufacturers in a send-off complete with helicopters swooping over Redmond. Microsoft is calling it the biggest Windows event in Microsoft history to be supported by marketing and advertising spending rumored to be in the range […]

Exabyte Corporation, a network storage vendor, and Ecrix Corporation, a privately held provider of value tape solutions for midrange servers and high-end workstations, this week announced the completion of a definitive agreement to combine the two companies. The companies said the merger is motivated by the complementary nature of Exabyte’s MammothTape(TM) and Ecrix’s VXA(TM) drive […]

OTG Software, Inc., a provider of online data storage, data access and email management solutions, today announced the availability of support for Plasmon’s latest range of removable data storage libraries, including the D-Series DVD-R/DVD-RAM libraries, G-Series Magneto-Optical line and LTO Ultrium product family. “Certifying our products on Plasmon’s industry leading tape and optical libraries allows […]

Cisco Systems says the times they are a changing and so is its business structure. The San Jose, Calif.-based computer-networking equipment maker Thursday announced it is shifting from its current three lines of businesses – enterprise, service provider and commercial to form 11 separate and distinct groups. The company says the changes were necessary to […]

Precise Software Solutions this week launched what it says is the industry’s first application performance tuning solution for Hewlett-Packard Company’s HP Surestore XP disk array family. According to Precise, by capturing, measuring, and correlating performance metrics from vital components of the application infrastructure, including HP Surestore XP disk array storage systems, Precise provides a complete, […]

Entrada Networks, Inc. today announced results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2002 ended July 31, 2001. Entrada reported net sales from continuing operations, its adapter cards business, of $2.2 million for the second quarter, compared with $6.0 million reported in the same period last year. Its discontinued operations, the frame relay business, had […]