Year: 2006

  • Avnet Employees Shake with Hawaiian Quake

    John Hazard

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    One-hundred fifty Avnet Technology Solutions staffers were in Honolulu Oct. 15 the distributor’s annual employee recognition event when a 6.7-magnitude quake shook the island chain. No one was injured, but the 150, including ATS President Fred Cuen, remained trapped at their hotel on the island without electricity and with minimal communication as late as Oct.… Read more

  • Compellent Technologies Adds Thin Replication in Storage Center 3.5

    Compellent Technologies Adds Thin Replication in Storage Center 3.5

    Elizabeth Millard

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    With its latest major storage center update, Compellent Technologies has turned to thin replication for bandwidth management and more cost-effective disaster recovery. Traditionally, thin replication has allowed a user to replicate only the written portion of storage volumes. Similar to thin provisioning, it tends to lower bandwidth costs through better optimization. Because of the thin… Read more

  • Let the Browser Wars Begin—Again

    Let the Browser Wars Begin—Again

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    Firefox 2.0 is almost here, and Microsoft is expected to start pushing out Internet Explorer 7 to users via the Windows Automatic Update software-distribution mechanism by year’s end. In short, the browser wars are about to begin again. Depending on whose numbers you believe, Firefox has been continuing to erode IE’s lead. According to Janco… Read more

  • Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost?

    Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost?

    Ryan Naraine

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    It’s dress-down Friday at Sunbelt Software’s Clearwater, Fla., headquarters. In a bland cubicle on the 12th floor, Eric Sites stares at the screen of a “dirty box,” a Microsoft Windows machine infected with the self-replicating Wootbot network worm. Within seconds, there is a significant spike in CPU usage as the infected computer starts scanning the… Read more

  • Axiom System Extends to Entry-Level, Enterprise Markets

    Axiom System Extends to Entry-Level, Enterprise Markets

    Elizabeth Millard

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    Network storage systems provider Pillar Data Systems is expanding beyond its midmarket roots with systems that target both small businesses and larger enterprises. New enhancements and configurations options in its Axiom Storage line will give entry-level customers a full data services suite and larger customers a more high-availability infrastructure. At the small-to-medium end of the… Read more

  • Cisco Channel Goes Vertical

    Cisco Channel Goes Vertical

    John Hazard

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    Cisco Systems on Oct. 16 took the wraps off Vertical Select, which gives VARs a crash course in marketing and sales tactics to tackle vertical markets. Vertical Select, which also includes tools to help VARs in their efforts, is essentially a booster program for partners who are interested but not yet involved in vertical market… Read more