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Storage @ccess Technologies Inc. announced that it has signed a letter of agreement with China Broadband Corp. to deliver hosted data storage solutions to the Asia Pacific region. Under the agreement, Storage Access will provide IBM hardware, software, enabling technologies and services to deliver its wide array of storage services over broadband cable. China Broadband […]

StorageTek(R) and Gresham Enterprise Storage reported a licensing agreement they said will allow users of StorageTek’s high-performance tape technology to benefit from the full performance potential on the AIX operating system. According to the companies, Gresham developed AdvanTAPE for AIX for StorageTek to optimize device performance and take advantage of the advanced functionality of StorageTek’s […]

Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) vendor JNI(R) Corporation today announced Hitachi Data Systems endorses JNI DriverSuite(TM) technology and has qualified JNI FibreStar(R) Fibre Channel HBAs incorporating this technology for use with Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) storage subsystems connected to Solaris-based servers. “Our Freedom Storage products are designed to provide open solutions for enterprise-level, multivendor, […]

PRAGUE — Slovak company Ditec a. s. has started a local Czech version of so-called payment portal Monex after several months of experience with running the system in Slovakia. The purpose of Monex is to provide a secure transfer of money from customer to the merchandiser. Monex works as trusted third party among customer, vendor […]

Guerrilla marketing may be a hot strategy these days, but it’s a strategy that backfired on IBM Corp. Tuesday when a trail of sidewalk graffiti on Chicago’s North Side lead Chi-town police straight to the computer industry behemoth. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, 100 or so locations in The Windy City were tagged with black […]

Bluetooth is about to overcome a host of obstacles and will grow rapidly, according to a new Cahners In-Stat Group study that was released Wednesday. In fact, the study predicts an annual growth rate in shipments of Bluetooth-enabled devices of 360 percent between now and 2005. That will result in shipments 955 million Bluetooth-enabled devices […]

SINGAPORE — U.S.-headquartered CCC Network Systems, a provider of enterprise-class switching technology for managing servers and network devices in Internet and corporate data centers, has officially opened its Taipei office – its fourth in Asia. “Since we began doing business in Asia Pacific, CCC Network Systems has seen continuous growth in the region’s information technology […]

CAPE TOWN — 3Com is helping Penryn College, a private school in Mapumalanga, with its community outreach programme, designed to assist less well-equipped schools in the region. The PenReach programme, as it’s called, is an intitiative designed to provide in-service training to teachers, upgrade school management and empower governing bodies. An essential part of this […]

LONDON — NetValue reports that 1.4 million UK households joined the Net revolution during the past six months… According to the company’s tracking of the UK online population, over 9 million households in the country – 37.2% of all UK households – are now connected to the Internet. It appears that the country’s acceptance of […]

HANOVER, GERMANY — The Internet has thus far not stood a chance against telephones and fax machines when it comes to closing business deals in German companies. This was shown by a survey taken in 200 firms which was presented on Monday at the Hannover fair in Hannover, Germany by the online subsidiary of the […]

Wireless software start-up ThinAirApps has a deal with Arriya Solutions Inc. to power the company’s flagship mobile applications platform. For the New York-based ThinAirApps, which builds wireless information access software for corporate clients, the deal with Arriya Solutions allows it to set foot in the lucrative Japanese market. Arriya plans to use ThinAir’s server as […]

The Network Storage 2001 (NS2001) Conference and Tradeshow will be held at the Monterey Conference Center in Monterey, Calif., June 11 to 14, 2001. In its eighth year, the annual Network Storage conference has established itself as a premier forum for storage and storage networking topics. More than 300 leading industry experts, IT professionals and […]