Lucas Mearian

Amid recent warnings from Washington that more terrorist attacks are inevitable, some experts say the financial services industry is ill-prepared to handle a second disaster because it's still mired in disaster recovery following the Sept. 11 attacks.

In a move that some experts say is a blow to the emerging InfiniBand market, Intel Corp. announced to partners on Monday that it has killed plans to produce silicon chips that would allow for high-speed server clustering and communication with other devices, such as storage arrays.

The post-merger Hewlett-Packard Co. announced plans today for a new storage division, dubbed Network Storage Solutions (NSS), that will include merging some products while phasing others out completely during the next five years.

Colgate-Palmolive Co. is changing its computer systems, including servers, storage, software and PCs, to an IBM Corp. infrastructure that will run its mission-critical infrastructure beginning with Colgate's global SAP AG systems.

EMC Corp., continuing to look for ways to jump-start its sales, last week announced a relatively inexpensive disk array for storing fixed data, such as check images, software source code and medical X-rays. Prospective users said the device could provide a speedier alternative to tape storage.

A recent survey of 100 CIOs by Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. revealed users who expect a gradual rather than quick improvement

Wall Street IT executives are hammering home the point that hacking and cyberterrorism is a mounting threat best fought by the private sector

Chief technology officers from storage giants such as EMC Corp., Quantum Corp., StorageTek Corp. and Compaq Computer Corp. all agree that standards will be needed to create heterogeneous storage-area networks (SAN) that can be efficiently managed; they just don't agree on how that would happen.