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Auspex Systems, Inc., a provider of Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions, today announced the availability of a leasing option for its enterprise file servers that it says enables customers to apply for lease financing directly from the Auspex web site. According to Auspex, the new service, provided by the Capital Acceleration Platform(TM) from Ampent(TM), eliminates […]

German e-business software giant SAP and Nashua, N.H., manufacturing process management applications maker Tecnomatix Technologies have inked a product pact. Under terms of the deal, Tecnomatix’s eMPower product will be integrated into mySAP Product Life Cycle Management suite. The companies will cooperate with development, marketing, support and maintenance, with the first shipment scheduled for early […]

SingTel subsidiary C2C Pte. Ltd. has successfully landed its US$2 billion privately developed C2C undersea cable system on Singapore shores. The island Republic is the second last cable landing for the 17,000 kilometer cable network, which also connects to China, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan and the Philippines. Taiwan will be the last on the list; […]

Digital signal processing chipmaker Cirrus Logic Inc. (Nasdaq:CRUS) said Wednesday that it is buying ShareWave Inc., a developer of wireless home networking technology. Cirrus Logic said it will pay about $92 million for ShareWave. The boards of both companies have approved the transaction. ShareWave’s technology has been employed by a number of home networking vendors […]

VERITAS Software Corporation today announced the expansion of its management team with executives hired to lead the company’s execution on targeted initiatives. Today, VERITAS also announced the departure of Peter Levine, executive vice president, Worldwide Strategic Operations, who is leaving VERITAS Software to pursue personal interests. The new vice presidents include: Doug Roseborough, senior vice […]

Quantum Corporation’s DLTtape(TM) Group today announced a technology development roadmap for its new-generation DLTtape technology. The new roadmap, which extends through 2007, takes DLTtape technology through four generations to a capacity of 1.2 terabytes on a single cartridge. The new product development roadmap takes DLTtape technology to a native capacity of 1.2 terabytes (2.4 terabytes […]

Seattle-based ASP InstantService, a provider of chat, e-mail, FAQ and other integrated CRM solutions, Wednesday unveiled its new InstantService Small Business Edition. InstantService Small Business Edition is a text-based chat CRM solution designed from small to medium businesses. A subscription goes for $80 per month, under which the subscriber gets the live chat solution and […]

The Green Card Initiative launched by German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder at CeBIT 2000 in Hannover is a year old as of Wednesday, but already foreign IT experts lured to the country through the program are being faced with layoffs that may force them to leave the country. According to current information from the German Federal […]

Vicom Systems, Inc., a storage virtualization company, today announced an OEM agreement with IBM Corporation it says will enable new connectivity from IBM 7133. Serial Disk Systems to IBM SAN Fibre Channel switches with support for heterogeneous hosts including IBM eServer pSeries servers. The IBM product is called the IBM TotalStorage SAN Controller 160. This […]

EMC Corporation today announced enhancements to EMC (R) Data Manager (EDM(TM)) backup and restore solution for open systems. According to EMC, enhancements include the ability to perform simultaneous NFS (UNIX) and CIFS (Windows NT) backups, while maintaining all of EDM’s rich backup and restore functionality, and the ability to choose the highest-performance path – either […]

BakBone Software(TM), Inc., a provider of storage management software solutions, today announced automated data protection for users of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server with the introduction of application-specific NetVault(TM) modules. “We initially chose NetVault because of its ability to back up information stored on multiple platforms,” said Mark Hagler, Manager of […]

Dot Hill Systems Corp. , a provider of carrier-class information storage and storage area network (SAN) solutions, today announced that it has integrated Ultra160 technology into its SANnet(TM) 3300 (SCSI) and SANnet 4300 (SCSI-Fibre Channel) storage systems, as well as the SANnet 2300 expansion chassis. “The new Ultra160-enhanced SANnet systems provide customers with increased transfer […]