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An Array of Tiny Drives
Imagine a six-drive array of 80GB hard drives that fits entirely in a single 5.25-inch, 1/2 height drive bay. This is made possible by using 2.5-inch drives primarily targeted for laptop systems. We originally saw this JMR SATAStor at the Intel Developer Forum a year ago. Of course, you can’t just drop a six-drive array…
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Cisco’s NetSolve Buy Will Help Resellers
Cisco’s announcement last week that it will acquire Austin, Texas-based NetSolve looks to be a good move for resellers. This estimated $128 million purchase would integrate NetSolve’s remote monitoring technology into Cisco Systems Inc.‘s existing management offerings. NetSolve sells a remote monitoring service that gives companies real-time monitoring of health and performance on IP networks.…
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Maxell to Raise Prices on Tape Media
Maxell said Tuesday that it believes rising costs and shrinking margins will make a price increase “inevitable” on all magnetic tape products. The company is evaluating when to hike prices, by how much and for which products, Don Patrican, executive vice president at Maxell, said in an interview. Maxell Corp. of America, based in Fairlawn,…
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BorderWare Firewall Fights VOIP Threats
BorderWare Technologies Inc. has joined Ingate Systems AB and others in providing an edge solution to the external threat problem in voice-over-IP PBXes. The Toronto-based company said Tuesday that it is shipping its new SIPassure-400 firewall, which is designed to keep out traditional threats to the enterprise and also threats unique to VOIP. The firewall…
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Software Chief Gives IBM a Vertical Push
Although the IBM Software Group generates billions of dollars of revenue for IBM each year, it is a nimble multibillion-dollar division. Responding to an evolution in the buying patterns of its customers, the Somers, N.Y., group late last year pushed into high gear an initiative to embrace vertical-industry customers through comprehensive middleware solutions. Steve Mills,…
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NEC 4-Way Server Is Fault-Tolerant
NEC Solutions (America) Inc. is unveiling a four-processor, fault-tolerant server designed to bring higher availability to data centers. The Express5800/340Hb-R, which will be released this week, features redundant components—including processors, motherboards, storage and power units—that run in lock step. If one fails, the second takes over, with no data loss, said officials at the Rancho…
