Deni Connor

IT managers can better manage traffic and ensure uptime for their Web servers with this month

Storage specifications are starting to emerge that may make it easier for IT managers to assemble and install their own storage-area networks and network-attached storage.

During May, financially battered Novell Inc. reorganized into four business units charged with focusing on new Internet-related opportunities, as well as Novell

Sun Microsystems Inc. entered the high-end network-attached storage (NAS) market in May with a family of file servers that lets network managers at dot-com companies, enterprise workgroups and service providers add up to 10 terabytes of storage to local Ethernet networks.

Professional services giant Electronic Data Systems Corp. will enter the storage service provider (SSP) market, a move that analysts and users say will establish the concept of outsourcing storage for e-commerce and traditional enterprise network companies looking to get a handle on their rapidly increasing storage needs.

MC Corp. introduced hardware and software last month that increases the performance and scalability of enterprise storage-area networks (SAN).

Managers of NetWare networks can now find out why their servers fail and bring them back on-line faster with software Novell Inc. is testing on the company

Earlier this month, Novell Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt attempted to take the network software industry