Toshiba and NEC have started a standards war in the race to produce an heir for DVD in optical disc technology, by proposing a new format to compete with the existing Blu-ray consortium.
Six storage area network hardware vendors have committed to an interoperability standard for data mirroring, to help with business continuity projects.
Storage hardware distributor AustStor will undergo a name change, and expand into regional New South Wales, as part of its continued focus on pushing the benefits of magneto optical tape drives to Australian users.
A tape drive that has a native capacity of 1.2 terabytes is currently under development. Tandberg Data's subsidiary O-Mass and Imation have agreed to develop the new technology and hope to deliver it to the market in 2005.
Epson Australia has announced plans incorporate its Print Image Matching (PIM) II technology across its entire photo printer line. These printers will also support Exif Print.
NetScreen Technologies has announced four new hardware and software products that increase security and reliability, while decreasing the deployment and management hassles associated with large-scale virtual private networks (VPNs).
Cognos and Macromedia have integrated their respective business intelligence and desktop multimedia applications using Web services, in a development that may herald the realisation of the executive's dream of the truly interactive PowerPoi...
