NEWS&ANALYSIS
the
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
buzz
The IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 500 has a low price.
Potential vendors and partners [would]
come in and try to sell us on the idea of
grid computing and we’d say, ‘It sounds an
awful lot like what we were doing. We didn’t
know there was a name for it.’
Marty Abbott, senior vice president of technology for eBay
PEOPLE
SERVERS
Nielsen the latest
Top-tier vendors BEA departure
see revenue jump BEA SYSTEMS SUFFERED ANOTHER
STORAGE
EMC, IBM slim
down NAS devices
EMC AND IBM ARE ROLLING OUT
slimmed-down versions of their
NAS boxes and gateways to offer
users lower entry price points
and simplified upgrade paths.
This week, EMC will introduce
its Celerra NS500 NAS platform.
Available in gateway and integrated models, the NS500 Series costs
$40,000 for 1TB, with one or two
data movers, and can be upgraded
to EMC’s higher-performing
NS700/704 models.
EMC is also unveiling its Celerra NS704G Gateway NAS. The
product enables EMC NS500G,
NS600G and NS700G customers
to upgrade for increased performance and advanced clustering.
Priced at $165,000, the NS704G
is available with four data
movers, CIFS (Common Internet
File System) and Snap, and it
supports single and dual Control
Station configurations.
IBM last week released a new
entry-level model of TotalStorage
NAS Gateway 500. It features
a single microprocessor based
on Power 4+ and is priced at
$31,850, about 40 percent below
the cost of IBM’s original NAS
Gateway 500. —Brian Fonseca
addition to Bosworth, Scott
Dietzen, BEA’s former chief technology officer, left the company
earlier this month.
Rick Jackson, a vice president
of marketing under Nielsen,
recently went to Borland
Software. Other recent defections include Scott Edgington,
former BEA vice president in
charge of partner relations.
—Darryl K. Taft
SERVER SALES AND SHIPbig-name departure last week in
ments jumped again in the second Chief Marketing Officer Tod
Nielsen. In an 8-K filing with the
quarter, with IBM topping the revU.S. Securities and Exchange
enue chart and Hewlett-Packard
Commission, BEA reported that
shipping the most units, according
Nielsen would be leaving the
to a report last week from Gartner.
company effective Aug. 26.
Worldwide server revenue
Nielsen’s departure was not
grew to more than $11.5 billion
PRINTERS
unexpected, following a series of
in the quarter, a 7.7 percent
defections from the company’s
increase over the same period
upper ranks, most notably Adam
last year, said Gartner officials.
Bosworth, former vice president
More than 1.6 million servers
and senior architect at BEA, who
were shipped, a 24.5 percent
TALLYGENICOM LAST WEEK ROLLED
went to Google last month.
jump over the same period.
out a $799 monochrome laser
Bosworth and Nielsen worked
All the top-tier vendors saw
printer for small workgroups.
together at Microsoft, and Nielsen The 9025N prints 25 pages per
revenues grow in the quarter.
then moved to Crossgain, a comIBM again led the pack, with
minute at a resolution of 1,200
pany co-founded by Bosworth
more than $3.5 billion in revenue,
by 1,200 dots per inch, with a
and later acquired by BEA. In
a 10.8 percent jump. IBM was
first-print-out speed of 12 secfollowed by HP and Sun
onds, officials said.
Microsystems, whose
The printer holds
BY THE NUMBERS
revenues grew 4.3 per600 sheets, with an
cent and 2.9 percent,
additional 500-sheet
respectively. Dell had
tray available for $259.
the strongest revenue
It includes a duplexer
59% of Internet users use instant messaging for two-sided printing.
growth, at 20.1 percent,
TallyGenicom
ships mono laser
Instant messaging use
to $1.13 billion.
HP shipped 463,489
units, a 22.7 percent
increase. Dell, which
has shown the strongest
shipment growth,
shipped 337,994 units,
an increase of 29.2 percent. Sun showed the
most growth in shipments, moving 90,487
units for a 38.4 percent
increase. —Jeffrey Burt
20 e W E E K n A U G U S T 3 0 , 2 0 0 4
29% of IM users send as many, if not more,
IMs as they do e-mail messages
27% of IM users use IM at work, a 71%
increase over last year
19% of IM users send and receive IMs on a
mobile device, compared with 10% last
year
90% of 13-to-21-year-olds use IM
48% of those age 55 or older use IM
Source: AOL
The maximum paper
size it handles is 8.5
inches by 14 inches.
The 9025N includes
parallel, USB 2.0 and
Ethernet 10/100BaseT
interfaces. A version
with wireless LAN
802.11b connectivity,
the 9025W, costs $858.
A non-networked model,
the 9025, costs $599.
—Shelley Solheim
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