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A new report, Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Inc. states that the North American storage service provider (SSP) market will grow from $176 million in 2000 to over $6 billion in 2004. The report says the SSP industry was bracing for even stronger growth, but the recent failures of many dot-com companies, among other […]

Sphera Corp., a provider of hosting automation software, has moved its headquarters to Boston from New York to be closer to existing and prospective customers. “We believe that Boston is the ideal location for Sphera as our sales and marketing efforts to high-end customers expand,” said Tamar Naor, Sphera’s CEO said. “The Boston market provides […]

IBM today announced that financial services application service provider, LiveOffice, has chosen the Enterprise Storage Server (code named “Shark”) to enable a storage area network (SAN) that supports the company’s rapid growth. LiveOffice hosts software applications, professional content and web sites for financial customers including Fidelity, Charles Schwab and TD Waterhouse. The company says it […]

Broadband2Wireless Inc., which only three months ago launched its Airora wireless broadband Internet service to resident and small office/home office users in South Boston, is reportedly calling it “quits.” The Boston Globe on Friday reported the company (also known as BB2W) received approval from U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Joan M. Feeney to auction off assets under […]

Despite the promises of research analysts that IT expenditures will continue to pour into storage systems, data storage giant EMC Corp. said it now appears that “there are fewer dollars being invested in information technology than a year ago.” Accordingly, the Hopkinton, Mass.-based company late Thursday advised that second quarter profits would be only a […]

Seattle-based Bidpath Corp, which provides marketing and technology services to the asset disposition industry, Thursday partnered with Walnut Creek, Calif.-based eBreviate to create a faster, more efficient way to conduct Internet-powered asset disposition events. The alliance targests the business-to-business market for the disposition of corporate, personal and government assets by auction — a market estimated […]

A group of 19 companies that own patents related to MPEG-4, which is a streaming video technology aimed at wireless devices, said Thursday they have made significant progress in discussions aimed at offering licensees a single patent license. The group, known as M4VisualPHG, had created a member group called MPEG LA, LLC to facilitate the […]

Chinese ISP JiTong Network Communications Corporation has awarded a US$9 million contract to Datacraft Asia to roll out an IP-based billing and messaging infrastructure across 166 cities on the Mainland. In a statement to the Singapore Exchange, Datacraft said it will deploy its iBOSS portfolio of software and services to support the ISP’s fast-growing broadband […]

Online Portal M-Web recently added personalization to its home page, allowing users to edit the type and location of the content they see. The “extreme personalization,” as M-Web has dubbed it, was beta-launched on the 1st of June and 25,000 users have already registered. Content is now displayed in self-contained, content specific “blocks” or modules. […]

Wanting to capture Asian Web hosting revenues projected to reach US$1.8 billion by 2004, SingTel has launched its EXPAN suite of managed hosting services (MHS) and committed S$500 million (US$274 million) to establish a network of Internet data centers (IDCs) throughout Asia by 2002. EXPAN will enable multinational corporations (MNCs), ASPs, and companies involved in […]

Cambex Corporation, a supplier of Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, today announced its new 2 Gb/s host bus adapter (HBA) for SANs in Unix, Windows and Linux environments. According to the company, the Cambex FibreQuik(TM) PC2000 HBA supports 64-bit, 66-MHz PCI transfers and operates at either 2 Gb/s or 1 Gb/s Fibre Channel […]

A report recently published by the Centre for Digital Democracy (CDD) argues that interactive television (iTV) has some insidious privacy-infringing potential. “To advertisers, the development of a technology that combines the Web’s interactivity with television’s element of dedicated spectatorship is a dream come true,” argues the report. “With iTV they will have access to a […]