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EMC Unveils NAS Gateway for Windows SMB Market
EMC is diving deeper into the elusive, Windows-dominated small and midsize business depths with a lower-end alternative for its entry-level network-attached storage gateway NetWin family. The storage titan on Thursday unveiled the NetWin 110, which is scheduled to ship in early June for $6,100. The Microsoft Windows Storage Server-based NetWin 110 provides SMBs with a…
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Cometa Pulls the Plug on Wi-Fi
Strapped for investment capital, Wi-Fi provider Cometa Networks announced on Wednesday that it plans to suspend operations after less than 18 months in business. AT&T, IBM, Intel and two venture capital firms launched the collaborative venture in December 2002 to aggregate and wholesale wireless hot spot services. In March of 2003, Cometa gained prominence as…
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The Allure of Software as a Service
How has the enterprise software business changed in the post-dot-bomb era? If there’s one thing, it’s that there’s now an emphasis on right-now value. Perhaps that’s because customers are more in-charge of their vendor relationships than they have been in the past. It used to be that enterprise vendors—hardware and software both—and their corporate IT…
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Cisco Needs to Come Clean
Cisco Systems is stonewalling—or should I say firewalling, since we’re talking networking? But it’s pretty darn clear now that the crown jewels of the latest version of its Internetwork Operating System’s source code have been swiped. This is bad news. No, it’s not likely, as some have suggested, that some weekend cracker can find serious…
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How to Make Your Opportunity Pipeline More Predictable
During soft-market years, many technology services companies have difficulty accurately forecasting revenues and keeping the opportunity pipeline full enough to deliver the revenues they need. And even worse, by the time they realize they’re at risk of not meeting the revenue goals, it’s too late to do anything about it, because sales lead times are…
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Novell Encourages NetWare Users to Try Linux
Novell Inc. is bending over backwards to make sure that its installed base of NetWare customers and resellers get a chance to review Novell’s Linux offerings by providing them with free copies of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 and Novell Nterprise Linux Services 1.0. The promotion is designed to show customers how the products can…
