Stories about: Overland

Sprint Nextel plans to lay off a few thousand of its 60,000 workers, a report in the Wall Street Journal says, quoting unnamed sources.

When Randy McConnell equipped warehouse workers at Smith Drug Co. with wearable computers, production increased by 20%. "And our error rate went down to nothing," says the IT director at the US-based drug wholesaler.

Sun is offering to give away its encryption key management software interface for nothing.

At its annual Technology Day in New York next week, Dell is expected to talk about its storage and server roadmaps and make what it says is a significant storage announcement. Network World Senior Editor Deni Connor this week caught up with Praveen Asthana, director of Dell storage to talk about the company's storage strategy. Although Asthana discussed where Dell is going in storage, he declined to comment on next week's storage news and the company's pending OEM relationships with Overland Storage for low-end tape library products and with Engenio for low-end disk, which will compete with the Dell/EMC AX100 storage array.

Jason Hamlett was caught by surprise last December when an oil refinery explosion destroyed his company's new office space in Hemel Hempstead, England, and caused its existing offices and data center to go offline for 48 hours. The ferocious Buncefield fire burned for several days and was the largest to hit Europe in peacetime.

Overland Storage Monday launched a set of entry-level tape autoloaders and tape libraries for small and mid-size businesses or remote offices within an enterprise.

Novell officials have confirmed a release later this month of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, just one month after the company unveiled a free public preview of the software. The preview was the first opportunity many users had to test Novell's commercial version of the openSUSE desktop environment.

In a routine reminiscent of mum at dinner time, thin provisioning forces storage-hungry users to watch their habits.

A new division of Sprint Nextel isn't pushing phones or minutes: it's selling brains.

Novell took major restructuring steps this week by announcing the layoff of 600 workers, promoting an insider to serve as the company's new president and deciding to focus on three basic market segments, including Linux.

Sun Microsystems' US$4.1 billion acquisition of Storage Technology is expected to close Sept. 1, leaving in its wake a much smaller independent tape-vendor market. Mark Canepa, executive vice president of the Network Storage Products Group at Sun Microsystems, will be overseeing the combined Sun/StorageTek division, which will be located on StorageTek's Colorado campus.