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The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) said it has named three new board members: Marc Oswald of Brocade Systems Communications, Mark Hamel of Compaq, and Michael Hoard of IBM. They join nine other FCIA board members for the 2001 fiscal year to promote and support the rapid advancement of Fibre Channel in the technology industry, […]

Banderacom, a fabless InfiniBand semiconductor company, announced the storage and networking industry’s first technology demonstration of an InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel Target Channel Adapter (TCA) prototype. “This industry-first demonstration of an InfiniBand-to-Fibre Channel Target Channel Adapter (TCA) complements our existing solutions for InfiniBand-to-Ethernet and InfiniBand-to-TCP/IP offload systems, reinforcing Banderacom’s position as the leading provider of InfiniBand target […]

VERITAS Software Corporation this week announced its strategy to support the forthcoming Oracle9i Database, enhancing availability, performance and manageability for customers planning to take advantage of this new Oracle(R) technology. The company also announced it is adding significant enhancements to VERITAS Database Edition for Oracle online storage management and VERITAS NetBackup(TM) data protection solutions. The […]

EMC Corporation this week joined with Oracle Corporation in the launch of its new flagship database and application server, Oracle9i. EMC technology was used as the information storage infrastructure during the development and testing of Oracle9i. Additionally, EM says it is ensuring interoperability and integration of Oracle9i with EMC systems and software for the more […]

The current economic climate in the U.S. requires that players in the highly competitive Internet backbone market adapt to suit the needs of their ISP clients, according to a new report by CyberAtlas Research Series, a division of INT Media Group Inc. “During stagnant economic conditions, savvy ISP operators know that in order to raise […]

Solving potential security problems is essential before wireless local area networks (WLANs) will be widely adopted in the enterprise, a new study by Cahners In-Stat Group said. University of California researchers claimed earlier this year that 802.11 wireless networks were subject to security breaches. The In-Stat study notes that the industry already was seeking to […]

Seattle-based Internet access management company N2H2 Inc. Thursday trumpeted that it has reached a milestone of 14.5 million students using N2H2 filtering services in schools worldwide. The company also said it has successfully converted 62 percent of its education-based Bess Partner Program customers to a fee-for-service model representing more than $2.5 million in new contracts. […]

According to some, e-business represents a major paradigm shift in the business world that companies ignore at their own peril. “If you don’t end up being e-business driven, we believe you’ll fail,” said Intel Vice President William Swope. “What we’ve got here is a fundamental upheaval in corporate thinking.” Like Intel, many analysts view the […]

Peerless Systems Corporation subsidiary Netreon, Inc.today announced DirectoryPlus(TM) NAS for Active Directory v1.1 (“DirectoryPlus(TM)”), which the company says lets all Windows clients of a NAS server authenticate through Active Directory. According to Netreon, the latest version of its software development kit (SDK) lets a NAS OEM extend single sign-on to all Windows clients, simplifying life […]

Quantum Corporation today announced that revenue for its fiscal first quarter, ending July 1, 2001, is currently expected to be in the range of $265 to $275 million, compared to $309 million in the previous quarter. Earnings per share are expected to be in the range of $.10 to $.12, diluted, excluding previously announced special […]

Tape drive manufacturer Seagate Removable Storage Solutions (RSS)and tape library vendor StorageTek(R) today announced that StorageTek is integrating Seagate’s Viper(R) 200 Ultrium tape drive into StorageTek L20/L40/L80 tape library series, the L180 and the L700 tape libraries. “Integrating Seagate’s Viper 200 tape drives in our L-series libraries allows us to offer the broadest range of […]

Comcast Cable Communications said Tuesday it will become the latest broadband provider to offer in-home networking capabilities. Comcast said it would work with Intel to develop and distribute home residential gateway and networking products to its subscribers. The products support both 802.11b wireless and Ethernet networks. Comcast is the third largest cable operator in the […]