Analyst group IDC have estimated that the market for security software will balloon to US$1 billion a year by 2007, reflecting a 17.2 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR).

Microsoft has made no secret of its intention to connect its PC office tools to media and knowledge system and the today it announced a deal with Factiva that will see the business information service connected and integrated into Office 2003.

The spate of personal data thefts continues in the United States; 55,000 records have been stolen from the databases of the University of Texas.

Developing applications in Australia has led to StorageTek receiving a Certificate of Recognition from the Federal government.

Companies that store their data on the Internet will be able to collaborate more effectively, according to science group CSIRO.

Meta Group has released its latest MetaspectrumSM analysis of the network attached storage market and has placed Network Appliance as the leader.

The storage sector entered a new détente this week as vendors sat down, smoked a peace pipe and settled their differences. Central to the cold relations in the storage sector was EMC, but EMC, Veritas and Hitachi have all settled their diff...

A series of storage management companies have adopted Broacde's new SilkWorm Fabric Application Platform and Brocade has released a new developer kit for the platform.

As reported in last week's Stockwatch, some analysts were critical of Hewlett-Packard adopting the same accounting practices as Compaq had used, but the markets stood by them. Shares in the newly merged company moved upwards on the US marke...

A survey recently carried out by vendor StorageTek shows that administrators in Australia are under pressure from growing storage demands, data growth, capacity planning, reduced spending and the deletion of data.