Ashlee Vance

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Quantum boosts tape drive performance

Quantum Corp. Tuesday released its latest midrange tape drive, bulking up the amount of data that can be stored on a drive and cutting backup times for midsized companies

RLX launches new blade server software

RLX Technologies Inc. today released a new version of its server blade management software and announced that it will begin offering several software packages to help customers create large clusters of servers.

Dell gets slim with Xeon servers

Dell Computer Corp. announced a new rack mount server Monday that will be the first of its slim, two-processor systems to ship with Intel Corp.'s Xeon chips.

Jobs unleashes Jaguar, new applications

Apple Computer Inc.'s always animated developers received a treat Monday with a sneak peek at the next release of the company's Mac OS X operating system, new software tools and news that a rack-mount server is on its way.

Veritas wants to be the Switzerland of storage

Like H.J. Heinz Co. and its fabled 57 varieties, Veritas Software Corp. is betting that customers will always prefer choice.

Quantum bulks up with NAS appliance

Quantum Corp. beefed up its networked storage product line Monday with the announcement of a new Linux-based appliance targeted at small and medium-size businesses.

IBM plans chips to speed Unix servers

IBM Corp. on Friday shed more light on future generations of its high-end server chips, saying it hopes to stretch the chips down to the lower end of its hardware line and alter the processor architecture to allow it to take on some tasks that are usually handled by software.

Veritas brings software to IBM’s AIX

Veritas Software Corp. is expected to announce next week that its suite of storage-management software will run on IBM Corp.'s AIX operating system.

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