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October 13, 2004
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In This Edition
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1. News: Iron Mountain to Acquire Rival Connected
2. News: High Court Won't Hear Music Sharing Case
3. News: PayPal Outages Persist, Worry Users
4. News: Web-Hosting Firm Surrenders Hard Drives to Feds
5. Interview: BMC's Miller: Wrapping a Mainframe Strategy
Around Tools
6. Opinion: A Pain in the Backup
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1. News: Iron Mountain to Acquire Rival Connected
Iron Mountain said Tuesday it will acquire rival record-
keeping company Connected for $117 million in cash. This
acquisition expands Iron Mountain's ability to provide
companies with backup and archiving of so-called
distributed data contained on desktop and laptop computers.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1217-14-28-41888-136957-1
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2. News: High Court Won't Hear Music Sharing Case
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sidestepped a dispute over
whether Internet providers can be forced to identify
subscribers illegally swapping music and movies online. The
subject, however, may be back at the court soon.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1217-14-28-41888-136960-1
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3. News: PayPal Outages Persist, Worry Users
Sporadic outages at PayPal stretched into a fifth day on
Tuesday, though the company late in the day reported that
access had returned to normal for most users. However,
PayPal's troubles have been affecting sellers and buyers who
have lost sales. They are questioning the payment service's
reliability.
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4. News: Web-Hosting Firm Surrenders Hard Drives to Feds
San Antonio-based Rackspace Managed Hosting turned over the
hard drives from a pair of its Web servers leased to online
journalists and others after receiving a court order under
an international treaty governing investigations of crimes
such as terrorism, kidnapping and money laundering. Get the
details here.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1217-14-28-41888-136966-1
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5. Interview: BMC's Miller: Wrapping a Mainframe Strategy
Around Tools
BMC's mainframe business unit general manager, Bill Miller,
details how the company is enabling customers' most critical
data to work with BMC's Service Impact Manager. Read
the interview here.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1217-14-28-41888-136969-1
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6. Opinion: A Pain in the Backup
Data storage is growing faster than total bandwidth. Does
this mean we're at the point of overlapping backups?
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