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The Las Vegas Roster

Jeff JonasFounder and chief scientist,Systems Research and DevelopmentAfter declaring bankruptcy when his startup went belly up in the early 1980s, Jonas started anew in 1983

Trend Micro: One-Track Minds

Trend Micro isn’t a household name, especially compared with heftier rivals like Symantec. But the Tokyo-based company has a following among security pros looking for

Dept. of Homeland Security

Headquarters: 3801 Nebraska Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20528 Financials: $40 billion operating budget proposed for fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2005. Mission: Prevent and deter

NORA and ANNA

“Non-obvious relationship awareness” (NORA) software probes databases in any language, searching for obscure matches between relevant information. Anonymized data (ANNA) software uses the same technology

Dossier: Proxim Corp.

By any measure, 2003 was a breakout year for many wireless-communications companies. For Proxim, it was a year of trying to put the pieces back

How Tape Shapes Up

Tape remains the leader of the backup pack, delivering more bytes for the storage buck than even the lowest-cost disk drives. There’s something about tape

ADIC: A Smaller Footprint

If you’re just talking market share, ADIC is no more than, say, Neptune to StorageTek’s Jupiter: ADIC generates about one-third the tape library revenue as

Quantum: Losing a Step

Better known for tape drive technologies than libraries, Quantum has been eliciting fewer warm fuzzies lately. Financially, its earnings have been hurt by falling tape