Aperi, derived from the Latin word for 'to open' -- will take an open approach to build a common platform for managing all brands of storage systems, with community members contributing code and taking advantage of a common platform for building storage software applications.

'EMC has the highest regards for creating and maintaining open industry standards and working with consortiums within the storage management environment. We were frankly perplexed that we were not notified or given the opportunity to engage in this proposed initiative prior to IBM already briefing the media and reflecting a consortium without EMC's inclusion.'

'Aperi is IBM's second industry leadership attempt to control an open source project since Eclipse,' said an industry analyst who wanted to remain anonymous. 'EMC, HP and other players in the storage industry may stay on the sidelines and watch if the community idea will take off. The suscess or failure of today's announcement will not be apparent at least for two years. I don't expect EMC to rush to make an announcement tomorrow morning.'

ATTO Technology announced that the ATTO Celerity 4-Gb Host Adapter, ATTO FibreBridge 2400C/R/D Fibre Channel-to-SCSI bridge and ATTO iPBridge 2700C/R/D iSCSI-to-Fibre Channel bridge have been verified by Brocade as interoperable with Brocade-based Storage Area Networking (SAN) infrastructure, according to the testing requirements of the Brocade Fabric Aware Program. An end-to-end interoperability initiative for SANs, the Fabric Aware program is a comprehensive testing and configuration initiative designed to foster SAN interoperability in multi-vendor Brocade-based SAN environments.

Network Intelligence Corp., the market-proven leader in transforming enterprise-wide data into automated compliance and security information, announced a comprehensive strategy for long-term data archival and storage. Network Intelligence is complementing its existing online storage capabilities by adding interoperability with worldwide data archive and storage leaders for cost effective, end-to-end compliance and security log management.

The Safe Registration Framework is an extensible architecture for network access protection that enables enterprises to monitor and control network access according to their pre-defined standards.

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise and Trusted Computer Solutions, Inc. (TCS), a leading supplier of information sharing technologies to the Department of Defense, the intelligence community and commercial industry, were also involved in the development of the product. The Common Criteria standard is an i nternationally-recognized standard used by the federal government and other organizations to assess security and assurance of information technology products.

iLumin's Assentor product line provides comprehensive, enterprise message management and archiving for email, instant messages, and other unstructured data across leading platforms including Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise, according to a CA announcement.

The old battery-pack bugbear has bitten HP, which voluntarily recalled 135,000 laptop battery packs sold between mid-2004 and mid-2005. This is the latest in a history of similar battery-pack problems among several manufacturers over the years.

Shalov Stone & Bonner LLP, which this weekfiled in the United States district court for the southern district of NewYork a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of Refco, Inc. (NYSE: RFX) securities in the period between August 10, 2005, and October 7, 2005,reminds investors to visit the only website dedicated exclusively to theRefco securities litigation: www.refcoclassaction.com

CyberSource Corporation announced at 12:00 p.m. Pacific time today that it had withdrawn its offer to purchase the assets of CardSystems Solutions, Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia. The reason stated for CyberSource's termination was the inability of the parties to reach agreement in a timely manner that created severe obstacles to closing the transaction.

Symantec has announced that its Managed Security Services has now extended its Symantec Vulnerability Data Correlation Service to support the widest variety of vulnerability data services offered to customers in the market.

'Patch Tuesday' this month brought nine bulletins from Microsoft covering fourteen vulnerabilities in total and ranging in scope from a vulnerability in the Windows FTP client, which could allow an attacker to tamper with the file transfer location on the client during an FTP file transfer session, to a vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which could allow remote code execution.

MetaSolv Software, a global leader in comprehensive operational support system solutions for next-generation communications service providers, has announced that its 2005 Provisioning Symposium will be held October 18th and 19th, 2005 in London, UK.

The Renault F1 Team has announced that Xansa will become the team's Official Supplier of Software Development and Consulting. Growing from a successful project collaboration during the team's championship-winning 2005 season, this multi-year agreement will harness Xansa's leading-edge technology to deliver enhanced off-car data analysis systems, ultimately leading to improved on-track performance.

LiveVault Corporation, the leading provider of disk-based online backup and recovery solutions for business servers, launched LiveVault InSync Service for Microsoft DPM, which supports and extends the capabilities of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM).

8e6 Technologies, a leading supplier of Internet Content Filtering, Monitoring and Reporting Appliances, announced they are reselling two of Tandberg Data Corporation's Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions. These NAS units, the InteliNAS 4100 and the InteliNAS 4160, can be connected to the 8e6 Enterprise Reporter to enhance its ability to retain years of Internet usage history.

To enable the secure transmission of critical business data to mobile workers, Oracle announced that Oracle Database Lite 10g Release 2 will support Symbian OS, the global open industry standard operating system installed on more than 39 million data-enabled mobile phones.

Further expanding its identity management offerings, BMC Software, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise management solutions, announced the global availability of BMC Identity Management Suite, version 5.0.

Business and technology leaders around the world now have the opportunity to experience what hundreds of Business Objects customers who tested the ground-breaking new platform already know -- that significant innovations in BusinessObjects XI Release 2 give users a way to access information and share knowledge as they have never done before.

Quest Software Inc., a leading provider of application, database and infrastructure management solutions, announced that the new version of JClass ServerChart is now certified by IBM as an integrated plug-in for the IBM Rational Software Development Platform (SDP), which is built on Eclipse.

Astaro Corporation has released version 6.1 of its award-winning Astaro Security Gateway software that provides the first unified threat management, network security solution with dual virus scanning, utilizing two of the market leading engines - Kaspersky and ClamAV.

SenSage, the leading provider of enterprise security analytics, has introduced SenSage 3.5 which overcomes event-data management obstacles, and streamlines compliance, investigation and monitoring processes.

Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Release 6.0, marking the first product upgrade following the acquisition of TimesTen in June 2005. The release adds significant enhancements focused on major reases in caching performance and availability, larger in-memory databases and data caches, tighter integration with other Oracle products, and broader support of industry standards such as SQL and Java.

Symantec Corp has extended the capabilities of VERITAS Cluster Server, the industry's leading independent heterogeneous clustering and availability software, to lude full support for leading replication solutions that lude: EMC SRDF (luding SRDF/A), EMC MirrorView, Hitachi TrueCopy, HP Continuous Access XP, the IBM High-Availability Disaster Recovery capability of DB2 Universal Database.

Quest Software, a leading provider of application, database and infrastructure management solutions, has announced that it has been named by IDC as the No. 1 market share leader in distributed data management facilities (DMF) software.

Nick Mayes, Principal Analyst for Global Computing Services at Datamonitor, noted: 'Overall, this has been a major quarter for offshore sourcing. Large corporations such as ABN AMRO are dealing directly with offshore services vendors, and are signing deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars with them. Global IT sourcing models are gaining mainstream acceptance.'

ArcSight, the global leader in Enterprise Security Management (ESM) software, has announced the release of version 3.5 of its flagship solution. ArcSight ESM 3.5 specifically addresses the mission-critical security and compliance requirements of the largest, most demanding deployments in the enterprise security management market .

'Google worked quickly to complete the fix on its website, which is no longer exposed to this vulnerability,' said secure content management solutions provider Finjan, as it back-announced that it had informed Google last week of a dangerous cross site scripting vulnerability on its website.

Overland Storage today announced that it has signed a License and Distribution Agreement with a major OEM customer for the company's REO Protection OS intelligent, embedded data protection software.

Internet security pioneer and leader Check Point Software Technologies has agree to buy privately held Sourcefire, creator of Snort, for $225M - helping Check Point expand its strategy from primarily offering perimeter gateway security solutions to provide a fully integrated architecture for perimeter, internal, Web and endpoint security.

McAfee today raised the risk assessment to Medium on the recently discovered W32/Sober.r@MM!M-151, also known as Sober.r. The worm arrives as a .zip file attached to e-mail and has many of the same functionalities as its Sober predecessors.

Global Software, which calls itself the premier provider of real-time spreadsheet financial and business performance management (BPM) analytics tools, announced that it will partner with Paris, France-based ERA Informatique to resell its Spreadsheet Server for J.D. Edwards, Budget Manager for J.D. Edwards, and Executive DASH applications.

TriGeo Network Security, the pioneer and leader of Automated Remediation through Intelligent Correlation, announced the 64-bit version of TriGeo Security Information Manager (SIM). Version 3.2 is the first completely 64-bit security information management appliance on the market and was designed specifically to leverage the power of high-performance processors.

Strategic Computer Solutions, an IBM Premier and On Demand Business Partner with more than 1,500 customers in the northeast, announced the acquisition of Principle Software, a New England eBusiness and portal solutions innovator, by its related company, Strategic Computer Services, LLC.

IBM and Univa Corporation announced a joint agreement whereby IBM will license commercial releases of Globus software from Univa, the leading provider of commercial software and professional services for open source Globus software.

Altiris, a pioneer of IT lifecycle management solutions that reduce the total cost of owning IT resources,announced 'revolutionary' new software management capabilities available with the upcoming release of Altiris Software Virtualization Solution.

Interlink Networks, a leading developer of network security and access control software, today announced the release of the newest version of its RAD-Series RADIUS authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server, Version 7.1, engineered specifically for Internet service providers (ISPs) of all sizes, OEMs, and larger enterprises customers.

nCircle, a leading provider of enterprise-class vulnerability and risk management solutions, has announced the general availability of version 6.5 of nCircle IP360. With this industry leading release, IP360 becomes the only vulnerability and risk management solution to offer integrated network line of sight risk analysis, providing an order-of-magnitude improvement in prioritizing vulnerability and risk remediation in large enterprises.

Idera, a leading provider of management and administration solutions for the Microsoft SQL Server and NEC Solutions (America), Inc., a premier provider of integrated solutions for the Connected Enterprise in North America announced, a technology partnership that will deliver a high performance managed SQL Server database operations environment.