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...best-known players in the storage industry are the ones that peddle big iron: EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM and Hewlett-Packard sell global companies $100,000-per-terabyte, refrigerator-size cabinets stocked with software on whirling discs that bring order, accessibility and protection to proprietary data. Veritas sells much less expensive software packages that back up data on other companies' hardware and that companies such as IBM Global Services and SunGard use to facilitate disaster recovery...
...last few years, corporate chiefs such as Microsoft's Bill Gates and IBM's Lou Gerstner became global celebrities--boosting brand awareness through frequent public appearances. Is the age of the celebrity CEO over? "Their risk profile just went up exponentially," says Jules Kroll, head of the security firm Kroll Associates. But most identifiable CEOs are already well protected, he says. It's other executives who aren't. "Some of the wealthiest people in the corporate world shun security," says Kroll. "They could use more...
Darby Overseas, the investment firm chaired by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, last year injected $20 million into the Mexican telecom firm Protel. Now Darby is leading a new group, which includes IBM and Comcast, to invest solely in Latin American new technology and telecom...
...questions haunt the fortunate. Rob Garrard, 45, worked for IBM on the 97th floor of 1 World Trade Center. According to his hometown paper in Plymouth, England, Garrard's sister said he escaped death by "sheer fluke... He was late leaving home because he had to make some calls, then he took the bins out and had to catch a later train." Such are the mundane "run of events," as Garrard later called them, that change fate. He arrived at work an hour and 10 minutes later than usual and was waiting for the elevator when Flight 11 crashed...
Manufacturers hoping to boost a sagging PC market are racing to equip computers for wireless networking. "It's considered something of vast importance, given the economic slowdown," says International Data Corp. (IDC) analyst Jason Smolek. Compaq, Gateway and Dell are all selling computers with built-in wireless networking capabilities. IBM launched a top-line Wi-Fi equipped laptop named ThinkPad T23 in late July that offers enhanced security features. Apple, which virtually pioneered wireless home networking when it launched AirPort in 1999, is ahead of the pack. All its computers have been WLAN-ready since then...