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McAfee, a division of Network Associates Wednesday says its is working with Atlanta-based SecureWorks on the next generation of anti-virus services. The collaboration will incorporate SecureWorks’ next generation network security services including real-time intervention, data fingerprint correlation, and dynamic inoculation technology. McAfee, in turn will supply its AsaP. The online delivery model helps protect McAfee […]

W. Quinn Associates, Inc., (“WQuinn”), a storage resource management software company, this week announced the opening of a corporate office in the heart of the business district of Chicago, IL. The office will serve as the hub for Midwest account service, sales and marketing, servicing those of WQuinn’s 3,500 customers that are located in the […]

In an effort to shore up operating expenses, telecom equipment manufacturer Tellabs said it would reduce its workforce by 1,000 people and close two facilities. In a statement, Tellabs said it plans to lay off 950 employees, while 50 workers have voluntarily accepted the company’s early retirement offer. Tellabs also plans to close a manufacturing […]

MaxOptix Corp. today unveiled what it says is the first tape-based device to break the 250 GB/hour backup and restore benchmark. StreamIT(TM), was introduced last March with AIT tape drives and now offers HP LTO tape drives, along with a PowerStream(TM) tape RAID controller. “The combination of HP’s LTO drive technology and our new PowerStream […]

Rorke Data, Inc., a subsidiary of San Jose-based Bell Microproducts, Inc., this week announced that the company’s new StudioNet-FC, a high bandwidth Fibre-Channel workgroup solution, was recently installed at Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) in New York City. MNN is responsible for administering public access cable television services throughout the New York City borough of Manhattan. […]

Embattled broadband Internet service provider ExciteAtHome Wednesday filed papers saying it has fired its accounting firm: Ernst & Young LLP. Ernst & Young, which audited ExciteAtHome’s books in 1999 and 2000, was notified on August 15 about the dismissal. In the company’s latest 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the accounting firm […]

Intel Online Services, Inc.this week announced the American Stock Exchange(R) (Amex(R)), , has selected Intel Online Services to provide managed hosting services for its trading information sites. According to Intel Online Servies, it will manage the Amex network infrastructure, including data back-up, Web site servers and operating system software for the Amex Web sites. Intel […]

Gadzoox Networks this week announced the Slingshot 4210, the newest member of the Slingshot 2Gb Open Fabric switch family. The Slingshot 4210 has 10 ports in a half rack wide, 1U high form factor. According to Gadzoox, the Slingshot 4210 is targeted at the growing Windows server cluster market. For example, the company said the […]

CommVault Systems, a provider of enterprise data and storage management solutions, today announced CommVault Galaxy(TM) data and storage management software support for Microsoft SharePoint(TM) Portal Server (SPS) environments. CommVault said, for SPS customers, CommVault Galaxy software protects SPS resources (including Dashboard, databases, indexes, documents, workspaces, log files, MSFT Search Service and stores) from human and […]

Solid Systems Inc., Houston’s provider of data center services, today announced it has signed GrandBasin to its data center in Houston. GrandBasin(TM), service provider for application and data hosting and services in the upstream industry, selected Solid Systems to provide managed hosting services for its IT systems, and for those of many of its clients. […]

Seattle-based computer peripherals distributor Bodelin, a division of Apple reseller Computer Stores Northwest, Wednesday claimed that The ProScope handheld USB it distributes for Japan-based Scalar was a hit at MacWorld New York. “We have seen huge interest from a wide variety of users including education, physicians, scientists, coin and stamp collectors, forensics, law enforcement, manufacturing, […]

In the year 2000, the number of Internet users in 20 European countries surveyed increased by 45 percent compared to the year before. This means that 97 million people in Europe are online, with 46 percent of all Germans between the ages of 14 and 69 using the Internet. With more than 24 million surfers, […]