Infrastructure

For the first time in its history, EMC Corp. has decided to offer an enterprise-class tape library as part of its product line and will begin reselling Advanced Digital Information Corp.'s tape libraries next month.

The IT folks at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto admit they were a little lucky when a gigantic blackout hit much of eastern North America last summer.

At its Summit 200 user conference last month, Information Builders Inc. (IBI) announced the availability of its business performance management (BPM) framework, formally marking the company

Montreal-based outsourcing services provider CGI Group Inc. has inked two 10-year deals with insurance companies in the U.K. and the U.S.

Just days after NEC Corp. announced plans to ship blade servers based on Intel Corp.'s Itanium 2 microprocessor, Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday confirmed that it too expects to ship blade systems based on the 64-bit chips.

In an announcement Thursday, Lindon, Utah-based SCO Group Inc., which is embroiled in lawsuits with IBM Corp. and Novell Inc. over the rights to the Unix operating system and related issues, said a drastic revenue drop was "primarily the result of a lack of SCOsource licensing revenue" from its SCOsource division.

Vendors are beginning to market the benefits of building customer interaction centre (CIC) infrastructure within the suite framework products they are currently developing. The benefits are becoming clearer, but the challenges are numerous for both vendors and customers alike.

Elpida Memory Inc. is to announce plans for a new memory chip fabrication plant in Hiroshima in western Japan on Thursday, the company said Wednesday.