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In a move designed to attract small-office/home office (SOHO) users to its high-speed Internet offering, EarthLink Inc., Tuesday unveiled a $15/month static IP address plan. Currently available in only 17 markets of the 38 states in its broadband network, the service is an add-on to the Internet service provider’s (ISP) standard home digital subscriber line […]

Global-storage provider Scale Eight Inc. announced the immediate availability of the Scale Eight Global Storage Service. Building on the massive scalability of Scale Eight’s existing managed storage platform, the Global Storage Service enables customers to bypass limitations in Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) technology and unify file storage across any number […]

Quantum Corp.’s DLTtape Group has unveiled a promotion with NovaStor, a developer and supplier of backup, disaster recovery and data interchange software, to enable customers to easily safeguard valuable data quickly and more effectively. June kicks off a tape cartridge promotion where each seven-pack of Quantum DLTtape IV media will include a free mini-CD containing […]

StorageTek said it has enhanced its intelligent Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) system, delivering on its commitment to providing customers with industry leading virtual storage management solutions. Doubling the disk buffer capacity of VSM results in faster data retrieval and provides greater flexibility to meet growing storage requirements, officials said. “Raising the standard for performance, capacity, […]

SingTel will roll out an interactive TV (iTV) trial next quarter, enabling about 300 residents in the northern part of the island Republic to take advantage of a range of multimedia services during the trial period, which could last up to eight months. The iTV service will be delivered through SingTel’s broadband asymmetric digital subscriber […]

In a searing indictment of Palm, market research firm Dataquest claimed Monday that Compaq’s iPAQ line of handhelds will overtake Palm in the current quarter if you count sales dollars and not unit sales. The research firm blames Palm’s inferior high-end technology. Dataquest projects worldwide iPAQ sales to be more than $200 million in the […]

Storability Inc., a provider of Automated Storage Assurance services, today announced AssuredStorage Navigator V.2, a breakthrough technology that provides consistent, consolidated views of a customer’s entire storage infrastructure – offering dynamic reporting through an enhanced Web-based portal. For the first time, critical status and control information for distributed heterogeneous storage area networks (SANs) and data […]

Germany’s Lufthansa Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Boeing, making it the international launch customer for Connexion by Boeing, the aerospace giant’s new airborne high-speed Internet service. Under the agreement, Lufthansa will install the service on a DLH 747 aircraft for a three-month development program. The airline then plans to install the service on […]

Irvine, Calif.-based Procom Technology Inc., which makes data storage and access appliances, and The Aucma Group, China’s largest manufacturer of freezers and a multi-billion dollar leader in technology, finance, real estate and investing, said that they have formed a strategic partnership in which Procom will be the company’s exclusive supplier of NAS products. After extensive […]

American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) is shipping the first validation units of its StorTrends 1108 Network Attached Storage (NAS) and JBOD (just a bunch of disks) line. The units are available in versions 1108-J (JBOD), 1108-N (with AMI’s NAS controller) and 1108-P (with NAS controller and AMI’s NAS software). Full availability of the StorTrends 1108 in […]

Proxim, Inc. (Nasdaq:PROX) announced Monday wireless local area networking (WLAN) products for Pocket PC handhelds. The company said its Harmony CompactFlash Card uses Proxim’s OpenAir frequency-hopping technology and supports 802.11b wireless LAN connections. It is designed for use with Compaq iPAQ and Casio Cassiopeia E125 handhelds. Proxim has claimed in lawsuits that its technology is […]

Metropolitan optical network provider Telseon and Nishan Systems, a provider of standard iSCSI, iFCP, and iSNS IP Storage switches, announced a joint solution to carry Fibre Channel over Gigabit Ethernet to extend the capabilities of Storage Area Networks (SAN) to Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN). With Nishan’s IP Storage switches, storage providers can feed Fibre Channel […]