Cloud

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.

Calling it vital to Canada

Following through on its belief that storage management software should reside in a dedicated storage appliance, Sun Microsystems Inc. will begin offering such a device possibly before the end of 2002, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.

Everyone knows the Web boom has gone bust. Everyone except Marc Andreessen, creator of Mosaic, the first graphical Web browser.

Internet visionary Marc Andreessen, chairman and founder of two-year-old Web infrastructure startup Loudcloud Inc., told attendees at Oracle Corp.'s OpenWorld developer conference earlier this month that organizations should begin using the technology that runs Web sites and Internet applications like a utility.

Concern over commodities trading giant Enron Corp.

Wireless LANs are becoming an important piece of the mobile computing infrastructure, but for enterprise users, they have a serious shortcoming.

The travel costs his IT department was paying to put out network fires were giving Oklahoma City-based Integris Health Inc. CIO Avery Cloud a sick feeling.