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The world of data storage can be as confusing as Alice in Wonderland's Tulgy Wood to organizations seeking the best and most cost-efficient way to gather and save information. Acronyms abound -- SAN (Storage Area Network), NAS (Network Attached Storage), DAS (Direct Attached Storage), SAM (Storage Area Management) and HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) to name a few -- and trying to sift through them and arrive at the right choice can be enough to make an IT manager yearn for the days of file-cabinet forests...

"It's more a reflection of the genuine fact that servers are so good now [that] it's based more on the choice of people in an organization or their staff," Lima said ...

Oracle has raised its bid to acquire rival PeopleSoft to about US$9.4 billion, or $26 per share. Oracle's amended offer is a little less than 19 percent higher than PeopleSoft's Tuesday closing price of $21.89 per share ...

Having security-minded development staff who are properly trained in secure software development principles also could minimize poor programming habits that can introduce vulnerabilities into Web mail applications. Resources for organizations that are establishing secure programming standards include Foundstone, online training from the International Webmasters Association, and a well-written guide to secure application development at the OWASP Web site. These resources can be used to establish a baseline of secure programming ideas within an organization.

But an attorney for the peer-to-peer (P2P) services sees the situation differently. "What the entertainment companies are trying to do here is overturn the rule that the Supreme Court gave us when those companies attacked the VCR," Fred von Lohmann, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, told TechNewsWorld...

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has announced its first Chinese member organization: Beijing Co-Create Open Source Software Company, Ltd., which plans to work on the Linux kernel and promote Chinese adoption of Linux on the desktop ...

Not everyone watches the Super Bowl just for the football. Given that many of the previous 37 Super Bowls were duller than watching golf on TV, some people would argue that the advertising is as much, if not more, of a reason to watch ...

Amazon.com, perhaps the premier e-commerce site, announced late Tuesday its first-ever full-year profit. According to the company's balance sheet, 2003 net income totaled US$35 million. In 2002, despite booking a small fourth-quarter profit, the company recorded a full-year net loss of $149 million ...

Virginia Tech, whose G5 Mac-based supercomputing cluster made headlines last fall as the third fastest supercomputer in the world, has announced it plans to migrate the cluster from Power Mac G5 desktop computers to Apple's recently released Xserve G5 1U server ...

Jerry Ungerman, president of firewall leader Check Point Software Technologies, oversees the company's worldwide sales, marketing, business development, product management and technical services. In this role, he helps Check Point provide its customers and partners with integrated network security solutions ...

Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Wendy Seltzer told TechNewsWorld that the final outcome of the Norwegian case and the U.S. cases hinged on whether the widely published software program violated a trade secret "Basically, once the information is so widely spread, ...

On Tuesday, The SCO Group accused Novell of libel, claiming Novell has interfered in bad faith with SCO's Unix copyrights. SCO's lawyers filed the lawsuit in state court in Utah, where both companies' headquarters are located, asking for "preliminary and permanent injunctive relief, as well as damages." ...

Check Point Software Technologies has unveiled its new InterSpect integrated security appliance. According to the company, InterSpect works to protect enterprise networks from attacks that originate internally. ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft posted a security patch for a flaw that affects control of VoIP (voice over IP) traffic in its Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000. The company rated the flaw's severity as critical and urged users to patch it immediately ...

Intel has revealed that its fourth-quarter revenues reached a record US$8.74 billion, with net income of $2.2 billion, or 33 cents per share -- more than double the year-ago tally. While some of those profits resulted from a tax break of approximately 9 cents per share, the company also took a $611 million writedown in the quarter ...

With the growing demand for always-on high-speed Internet access, consumer-grade firewall boxes are becoming as common in computing as modems and mice. The prevalence of these devices makes sense, as network security and protection against intruders have become topics of great concern for home-office telecommuters as well as for IT staff in upscale corporations...

Judging by its strategy, firewall vendor NetScreen is committed to a holistic view of enterprise security, leading the charge to integrate and deepen the firewall beyond its original parameters. The company's recently released Deep Inspection Firewall, for example, is designed to prevent application-level attacks, respond proactively to other security concerns, and integrate well with other enterprise security applications. Moreover, NetScreen's recent acquisition of Neoteris, a leader in SSL VPN (virtual private network) solutions, adds another weapon to its broad security arsenal...

Apple is angling to reinvent the PC world 20 years after the arrival of the first Macintosh. Toward that goal, company CEO Steve Jobs has announced GarageBand, the latest addition to the iLife product family, and a 4-GB mini iPod that sports sherbet colors. However, price may be an issue: At a relatively steep US$249, the mini iPod costs just $50 less than Apple's 15-GB iPod...

U.S. CD purchasers might face fewer copy-protection schemes and technologies than their counterparts in Europe, but Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Gwen Hinze told TechNewsWorld that the number of copy-locked CDs circulating in the United States is a figure under dispute...

Lawsuits against all sorts of entertainment companies based on their content have a long history, according to Lee Tien, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. "In virtually all these cases, the plaintiffs lose because there's a very strong freedom of speech argument and a very weak argument for causation," he told TechNewsWorld...