Deni Connor

The newest executive hired to right Novell Inc.'s listing ship intends to save foundering products by lashing them into suites, scuttling proprietary development tools, and emphasizing the company's directory-based offerings in revamped marketing aimed at upper-level corporate managers.

ServerWorks Inc., a Broadcom Corp. subsidiary, rolled out core logic for use in blade and other ultra-compact servers that doubles the memory capacity of the Intel Pentium III processor and halves the number of dual in-line memory modules servers use, resulting in less power-hungry, faster servers.

Sun Microsystems is expected to unveil a standards-based management suite early next year that is designed to help customers get a better handle on their increasingly complex storage environments.

Network professionals could find managing their storage devices and applications easier with software from TeraCloud Corp. and InterSAN Inc., two start-ups that rolled out products last week that monitor and manage statistics gathered from heterogeneous storage resources.

When it comes to developing a network-attached storage facility, there are myriad ways for customers to go. This article looks at three options: storage-area networks, network-attached storage appliances, and iSCSI or IP storage.

Storage vendors at Comdex showed off gear they say is necessary for faster, more efficient network and storage infrastructures.

Joe Doupnik has a big problem with NetWare 6, Novell Inc.'s newest network operating system.

Network World (U.S.) interviewed some NetWare 6 beta testers and found they liked a number of new features, such as Internet printing, iFolder, Native File Access Protocol and Novell Remote Manager.