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Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: SBL) Wednesday announced a new Pocket PC handheld that supports connections to 802.11 and 802.11b wireless local area networks (WLANs). Besides WLAN support, the Pocket PC-based PDT 8100 handheld supports both keypad and pen-based input, according to the company. It is ruggedized to withstand multiple four-foot drops to concrete as well […]

Exabyte Corporation today announced today that its Fibre Channel X80 and X200 tape libraries will now feature serverless backup capability as a result of embedding the extended copy (e-copy) command set in the M2 native Fibre Channel tape drive. “For the first time, users will experience the true data speeds of disk and tape in […]

Network Attached Storage (NAS) vendor Procom Technology Inc. this week announced that Kevin T. Michaels has been appointed to the company’s board of directors. “We are pleased Kevin has joined Procom Technology as a member of the board of directors,” said Alex Razmjoo, the company’s chairman and CEO. “His exceptional contributions in the high tech […]

SAN Holdings Inc., dba subsidiary Storage Area Networks (OTC Bulletin Board: SANZ), a supplier of best of breed integrated data storage solutions and data storage appliances and services today announced it has completed a line of credit financing agreement with Wells Fargo Business Credit, Inc. Under the terms of the financing agreement, Wells Fargo will […]

Finisar Corporation this week announced iSCSI protocol support in subsidary’s Shomiti Systems Surveyor 4.0 Monitoring and Analysis software console. According to the company, Shomiti’s Surveyor 4.0 will introduce complete and accurate decodes of the current iSCSI protocol draft standard. Finisar plans to extend iSCSI support into its market and technology line of GTX protocol analyzers, […]

Dot Hill Systems Corp. today introduced the SANnet Tower, which the company says is a compact, complete SAN system in a self-supporting deskside enclosure. According to Dot Hill, the SANnet Tower was developed for workgroup and department applications with the goal in mind of sympifying SAN storage implementation and management by eliminating the requirement for […]

IBM, Hitachi, Ltd., and its wholly owned subsidiary, Hitachi Data Systems, this week announced a strategic technology agreement that will extend interoperability between the companies’ storage servers and allow customers to more easily deploy open storage networks. According to the companies, IBM has licensed to Hitachi the key storage Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for its […]

McDATA(R) Corporation this week announced the appointment of Richard G. Search to vice president of marketing. Search will be responsible for driving McDATA’s global brand awareness and long-term market strategy. “Richard’s long history in the storage industry, developing and managing national and international marketing programs for three different Fortune 100 technology companies, makes him a […]

NetCurrents Lands Hill & Knowlton Beverly Hills, Calif.-based NetCurrents has a new partner in WPP Group’s Hill & Knowlton, which Wednesday said it would integrate NetCurrents’ PRManager tool into its own SmartTools suite. PRManager monitors about 100,000 Web sites and 3,800 online publications in order to provide clients with insight on where and how they […]

Proxim, Inc. (Nasdaq:PROX) said Wednesday it was unfazed by a new 802.11b wireless networking patent infringement suit against it and would defend itself vigorously. Proxim said that in March it told 70 companies that it intended to collect patent royalties on 802.11 technology. Earlier this week, Agere Systems Inc. sued Proxim saying that Proxim had […]

SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) Wednesday became the latest large provider of broadband Internet access to offer in-home networking to its customers. The company said its Pacific Bell, Nevada Bell and Southwestern Bell operating companies will offer DSL customers residential gateways provided by 2Wire. The gateways provide a firewall, enable connection sharing and a variety of […]

Broadband provider XO Communications, Inc. is opening a new hosting data center in Fremont, Calif. The new Fremont XO data center provides customers with high-speed Internet connectivity via fully redundant XO metro fiber networks. Because XO is a facilities-based, Tier One service provider with over 10Gbps of provisioned capacity to over 200 public and private […]