Dan Neel

Nortel Networks Corp. and Fibre Channel switch vendor Brocade Communications Systems Inc. on Tuesday announced they have strengthened their existing partnership to team up on customer sales calls and product interoperability.

An upgrade to Sun Microsystems

Taking a lesson from EMC Corp.'s AutoIS enterprise storage management strategy, Hitachi Data Systems Corp. (HDS) unveiled its own enterprise storage management initiative on Tuesday, called True North, at the NetWorld+Interop 2002 trade show in Las Vegas.

The Storage Performance Council (SPC) on Wednesday rolled out some of the first vendor results from its SPC Benchmark 1 (SPC-1), a newly defined metric for determining the performance of storage sub-systems.

IBM Corp. on Monday took a swing at competitor Hewlett-Packard Co. in the "big-iron" application server market with the introduction of a new IBM eServer i890.

Eyeing a growing market for technology that speeds the delivery of large files stored in colossal databases, EMC Corp. on Monday unveiled a new storage architecture and a new type of storage server at a launch event here headed by EMC chief executive officer Joe Tucci.

A world sprawling with wireless communication "hotspots" that provide access to the Internet is Intel's vision for the future of wireless mobile computing.

With an emphasis on the freedom of wireless technology, Intel Corp. here on Tuesday kicked off a campaign to push a new, faster set of Pentium 4 Processor-M (mobile) chips to the mobile computing market.