========================================================= ----- eWEEK.com UTILITY COMPUTING UPDATE ------ ========================================================= December 20, 2004
========================================================= Sponsored by Toshiba Yet another reason to choose Toshiba. Right now, you won't pay any interest until next year. There's never been a better time to move into the world of superior mobile computing. Offer ends 12/31/04. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1443-15-90-20859-160320-0-0-0-1 ========================================================= ========================================================= In This Edition ========================================================= 1. News: Symantec Agrees to Buy Veritas Software 2. News: IBM Gains Support for BladeCenter Spec 3. News: Oracle Launches Low-Cost Storage Initiative 4. Review: NetApp OS Bridges Diverse Systems 5. News: IBM Storage 'Bricks' Build Toward Petabyte Level 6. Review: SugarCRM's Sugar Sales 2.0 Visit eWEEK.com's Utility Computing Topic Center http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1443-15-90-20859-160323-0-0-0-1 ========================================================= Utility Computing Update ========================================================= 1. News: Symantec Agrees to Buy Veritas Software Computer security giant Symantec has agreed to buy the storage and backup program maker Veritas Software for about $13.5 billion US in stock. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1443-15-90-20859-160326-0-0-0-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. News: IBM Gains Support for BladeCenter Spec The company says it has signed up more than 110 companies to build technologies to the open specification for its BladeCenter systems. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1443-15-90-20859-160329-0-0-0-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. News: Oracle Launches Low-Cost Storage Initiative Using the same "tie together cheap boxes" mindset that it cooked up for its Database 10g push, this time Oracle is applying the idea to cheap storage arrays. Read more about the Resilient Low-Cost Storage Initiative. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1443-15-90-20859-160332-0-0-0-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. Review: NetApp OS Bridges Diverse Systems Network Appliance's Data OnTap 7G is a powerful operating system upgrade that gives NetApp appliances the ability to deliver storage management and virtualization across different vendors' storage systems. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1443-15-90-20859-160335-0-0-0-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5. News: IBM Storage 'Bricks' Build Toward Petabyte Level The company shows off a prototype of a water-cooled, modular, mass storage system called Collective Intelligent Bricks aimed at making the assembly and maintenance of terabyte- and even petabyte-capacity storage systems less complex. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1443-15-90-20859-160338-0-0-0-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6. Review: SugarCRM's Sugar Sales 2.0 Sugar Sales is off to a good start, but it needs better workflow management and customization capabilities, not to mention community support, before it can compete with the likes of SalesLogix or Salesforce.com. http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1443-15-90-20859-160341-0-0-0-1 ========================================================= Tech Jobs http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1443-15-90-20859-160344-0-0-0-1 ========================================================= Ziff Davis Channel Zone http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1443-15-90-20859-160347-0-0-0-1 ========================================================= DevSource http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1443-15-90-20859-160350-0-0-0-1 ========================================================= eNewsletter Information ========================================================= You are subscribed to this newsletter with the e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1443-15-90-20859-160353-0-0-0-1&[EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your HTML/text preferences, change your e-mail address or subscribe to other eNewsletters from Ziff Davis Media, click here: http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1443-15-90-20859-160356-0-0-0-1 ========================================================= eWEEK Magazine Information ========================================================= To apply for a free subscription to eWEEK, please go to http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1443-15-90-20859-160359-0-0-0-1 For help with your print subscription to eWEEK, click here: http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-1443-15-90-20859-160362-0-0-0-1 Copyright (c) 2004 Ziff Davis Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis Media Inc., 28 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016
