Latest storage news.
Footwear maker treads wirelessly, 11/17/03
It used to take Skechers five days to conduct a physical inventory of its footwear stock. Now the company says it’s done in two days – all 1,500 styles and 60,000 product types contained within 1.5 million square feet of distribution space.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1117skechers.html?nl
Tallying the true cost of spam, 11/17/03
Frank Gillman was frustrated that spam had essentially rendered useless the BlackBerries he deployed to 220 lawyers at the Allen Matkins legal firm in Los Angeles.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1117spamcost.html?nl
HP acquisitions bear ‘adaptive’ fruit, 11/17/03
HP last week unveiled software and services that promise to help IT managers better integrate management data, assign user access rights, manage heterogeneous servers and start to implement service-oriented processes across their networks.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1117hp.html?nl
HP officially launches Nimbus systems mgmt. tool, 11/11/03
Continuing to evolve its Adaptive Enterprise vision, HP on Tuesday unveiled more than three-dozen management software and services products, including its much-anticipated systems management tool previously codenamed Nimbus. The products are aimed at making it easier for businesses to create IT environments that grow and shrink according to business demands.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1111hpnimbus.html?nl
Tips for storage buying decisions, 11/13/03
Sometmes it is useful to go back to the basics. Today, let’s look at one necessary component of a buying decision: the question of “does this purchase make good business sense for my company.”
https://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/stor/2003/1110stor2.html?nl
TiGi commercializes server and storage accelerator, 11/11/03
Enterprise network managers looking to improve performance across application servers and networked storage environments might want to check out a player that recently surfaced, promising to boost data response time and scalability.
https://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/accel/2003/1110netop1.html?nl
SAN device interoperability begins to emerge, 11/11/03
The Storage Management Initiative-Specification Test Suite, developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association, has entered its beta testing phase. The suite is a series of interoperability tests for switches, fabrics, servers and arrays.
https://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/stor/2003/1110stor1.html?nl
On-demand computing goes to Comdex, 11/12/03
This year’s Comdex, Nov. 16-20 in Las Vegas, will be an interesting one. The conference has a renewed focus on the business aspects of IT, with a particular emphasis on business-to-business technologies. One of the themes is on-demand computing.
https://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/nsm/2003/1110nsm2.html?nl
