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Stifling online expansion will prove fatal to the continued vigour of many businesses warned Gartner’s new research service arm, GartnerG2. “It’s a serious growth trap to dismiss the dot-com experience without learning from it,” said a recent G2 report. Those who shy away from e-business initiatives because of the dot-com shakeout are making a “potentially […]

IBM today announced a reduction in its low interest rate available to customers on an expanded range of IBM products. The below-market financing rate — now as low as 5.3 percent(a) — offering is available to qualified customers through IBM Global Financing, the information technology industry’s leading financier. Low Rate Financing is an offering first […]

Adaptec, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Platys Communications. Adaptec says the acquisition accelerates Adaptec’s ability to provide IP Storage connectivity for three key high-growth IP Storage markets, namely: SAN (iSCSI end-to-end connectivity); Switches (Fibre Channel extension and routing); and NAS (iSCSI and TCP/IP connectivity). Platys, founded in 1997, develops and markets advanced storage networking […]

IBM today announced pre-packaged bundles that it says enable companies to deploy powerful e-business infrastructure solutions quickly and easily. According to IBM, by combining its eServer UNIX servers and disk storage systems with database, storage management, and e-business software, the bundles provide organizations with a foundation for the complete spectrum of e-business and traditional business […]

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today announced version 10 of CA-Datacom, the database management system for z/OS and OS/390 platforms. According to the company, the new version maximizes the scalability and flexible deployment of eBusiness applications by enabling data-sharing throughout the Parallel Sysplex environment. Applications can now access database information anywhere on any CA-Datacom image […]

W. Quinn Associates, Inc., (“WQuinn”), a provider of enterprise storage resource management software, today announced a market-adjusted price increase for its StorageCentral(R) SRM software. According to the company, the increase better aligns the its storage resource management software with the trend of growing average server capacity, which is a driving force in server consolidation. The […]

Emulex Corp. today announced that IDC has ranked Emulex the No. 1 Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) supplier worldwide, in both units shipped and revenue. In its report, “2001 Worldwide Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter Forecast and Analysis, 1998-2004,” IDC confirms that Emulex grew its No. 1 share of the Fibre Channel HBA market […]

Quantum Corporation subsidiary Quantum|ATL today announced that it is now supplying its M1500 DLTtape library to Demon, the Internet brand of Thus plc in the United Kingdom (UK). “As our customers’ Web sites are becoming more complex, they need to store increasing volumes of data,” said Colin Whitbread, group director of operations for Thus. “To […]

StorageTek(R) (Storage Technology Corp.) today announced taht in n addition to receiving Microsoft and Jiro product certifications, StorageTek is also certifying compatibility of several of its partners’ solutions with StorageTek products. According to the company, Microsoft certification has been achieved for a number of StorageTek solutions, including StorageTek’s 9840 tape drives and L-Series tape libraries. […]

A Simple Inexpensive Mobile Computer or Simputer stands to bring the IT revolution to rural India. Running on three AAA batteries and an Intel chip, the Simputer will boast a free Linux operating system, 32MB of RAM and 16MB of Flash memory. At a cost of only $200, this simple device (which resembles a hefty […]

Adaptec, Inc. today introduced iROC, a RAID solution that runs on standard Ultra160 and Ultra320 SCSI ASICs and host adapters. According to the company, iROC offers hardware RAID levels 0, 1, and 1/0, allowing users to access their data even in the event of a hard disk failure. Adaptec says iROC is unique in that […]

Use of wireless devices for data will grow twice as quickly in underdeveloped parts of the world between now and 2010 than in the so-called First World, according to a new study released Thursday by Telecompetition Inc. That’s because mobile data access in developing and emerging technologies is driven by a fundamental need for basic […]