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  • Tools Treat Storage as a Utility

    Veritas Software Corp., Softek and Sun Microsystems Inc. are each aiming to help customers turn data centers into operational storage utilities through several new storage utilization features and products. The result, according to the companies, should be better management of resources, improved performance and lower costs. Veritas this week will announce the availability of Veritas…

  • Macrovision Ships FlexNet Publisher DRM

    Macrovision Corp. on Monday announced the shipping version of FlexNet Publisher, the cornerstone of its next-generation digital-rights management system the company first disclosed last October. Although Macrovision, Santa Clara, Calif., designed FlexNet Publisher to manage software companies, Macrovision executives said the technology is also beginning to be added as a “secret sauce” to scale hardware…

  • PeopleSoft, SAP Announce New Software for Manufacturers

    At the National Manufacturing Week conference and expo in Chicago, enterprise software companies introduced new manufacturing products, services and architectures. PeopleSoft Inc. on Monday outlined its vision for the demand-driven enterprise, which includes methodology and new software products designed to help manufacturers better utilize their capacity. At the same time SAP AG announced new offerings…

  • Building Java, .Net Apps Sans Coding

    A small but growing software company is rolling out a major upgrade that lets developers build standards-based Java and .Net applications with no coding. Kinzan Inc. this week will release Kinzan Studio & Server 4.0, a development and deployment environment that lets developers build enterprise applications through an assembly model by simply linking components in…

  • RSA Keeps RFID Private

    RSA Security Inc. will unveil a finished version of its RFID “Blocker Tag” technology that prevents radio-frequency identification tags from being read. The technology, which RSA plans to demonstrate at its namesake conference this week in San Francisco, is one of the industry’s first attempts to secure the anticipated oceans of consumer tracking data to…

  • Elluminate, Intranets.com Heat Up Web-Conferencing Market

    Competition in the Web conferencing market continued to grow on Monday as two more companies announced new services and software for holding real-time online meetings. Elluminate Inc. launched a new name and a new version of its Web conferencing software as it aggressively seeks corporate business, while Intranets.com Inc. added a Web and audio conferencing…

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