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The official rollout on Tuesday of IBM's Lotus Symphony suite of productivity applications along with the launch yesterday of the official beta version of Acrobat.com from Adobe has all the experts asking the same well-worn questions: Now that Adobe, IBM, and Google all have skin in this game, is Microsoft Office under siege yet? And which online offering comes closest to being a viable alternative?

EMC plans to play a big role in forcing the price of solid state disk (SSD) drives down as it deploys the technology throughout its family of enterprise-class disk storage arrays.

Hitachi Data Systems Monday announced a number of upgrades to its enterprise-class Universal Storage Platform V (USP V) array and its Storage Command Suite management software.

Time once again for "Security Goes to the Movies," a leisurely look at the inevitable bleeding from the eyes that security folk experience when Hollywood takes liberties with technology, the laws of physics and other aspects of reality. Our shiny and metallic subject today is Iron Man. Our movie reviewer is Ken Gagne; our privacy/surveillance nerd is security channel editor Angela Gunn, commenting in italics.

Soon it will seem like every storage vendor with a name will have a clustered storage box. Why? In a word: Web 2.0. It would appear that your father's RAID array just doesn't cut it anymore with the purveyors of Facebooks, YouTubes, and SmugMugs. Your father's RAID can't scale, it's too slow, and it's decidedly not sexy anymore, even after a vial of Viagra and a trip to The Hair Club for Men.

Dr Steve Hoover, the vice president of Xerox's Xerox Research Center Webster, was making a business case for reusable paper at Gartner's ITexpo conference in the US this week, demonstrating a technology that could allow one sheet of paper to be reused hundreds of times.

Australian clothing retailer M Webster Holdings has completely overhauled its network moving away from a legacy PSTN dial-up service to an Ethernet WAN which has facilitated trials of VoIP, CCTV and door counter technology.

If there's any suspicion that cloud computing is just about building "best of breed" stand-alone application silos on the Web, the recent move by ZoHo may show that cloud computing is finally moving to a more integrated approach.

I started life in IT decades ago as a sales guy for a mainframe leasing firm attached to Greyhound --yes, the bus company. Greyhound Leasing and Financial actually wrote the first lease on an IBM mainframe, thereby creating a niche industry that included the lease and resale of new and used IBM mainframe hardware.

More than a decade after the first clunky electronic books appeared, a new push is underway to get readers to curl up with digital versions of their favorite best-sellers. But despite backing from heavyweights such as Sony, Amazon and a handful of publishers, the idea has yet to catch fire with consumers.

A browser by itself is a poor thing, letting you browse the Web, but little else. To get the most out of the Web, you need add-ins that give your browser plenty of extra features.