After two years trying, Microsoft has finally been awarded the patent for the File Allocation Table file system it developed in 1976. Linux, and other GPL, (Gnu Public License) vendors and purchasers should start to worry.
The benighted Australian Customs computer system will not lay down and die, and is being blamed for a AU$1.1-billion rise in the trade deficit. But the Australian Bureau of Statistics has come to its rescue.
Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC) has announced a number of upgrades to its Scalar i2000 intelligent tape library, claiming increased backup performance, reliability, and manageability in enterprise environments.
Google made waves last year through its controversial print library project in to scan the collections of five major US libraries and make them freely available online. Now, just as the din from that controversy is dying down, Microsoft has...
Determined to develop new digital media server (DMS) designs, Digital audio and video semiconductor developer WISchip International has announced a new partnership with streaming multimedia provider Digital 5.
A new Merrill Lynch survey maintains that despite increased demand for enterprise storage, spending will remain consistent with 2005 at 10.1 per cent of total spend.
Continuing the battle for High Definition DVD supremacy, the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) announced this week that its format specification and licensing is ready, allowing hardware vendors to finalise designs already being showcased at the show.
In a salvo of Q1 news EMC 'rebalances' its global workforce, spends US$30-million on Grid-based software and predicts record US$9.5-billion 2005 earnings after a $2.7-billion Q4 revenue rush.
According to Arkansas -based newspaper, The Benton County Record EMC Corporation and US retail giant, Wal-Mart are to sue a contractor for breaching IP laws.
