Dell this week made available three networked storage systems in the Dell/EMC product lineup that replace three previous models.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 12, 2004
Dell on Thursday posted company records for product shipments, revenues, operating income, net income and earnings per share in the quarter ended Jan. 30. The computermaker credited much of its quarterly strength to growth in enterprise computing products.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 12, 2004
SoftArtisans, which already sells a reporting product that generates and delivers reports in Word and Excel, announced plans to extend its functionality to support Microsoft's new SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 12, 2004
The patch Microsoft released on Tuesday for one of the most severe flaws yet discovered in Windows has the company under renewed scrutiny about the length of time it takes to fix security problems.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 11, 2004
If SCO Group won its lawsuit against IBM, Red Hat, and Novell over the intellectual property rights to Linux code, it would seem cause for dancing in the streets of Redmond. However, a SCO victory doesn’t necessarily bode well for Microsoft in the long run, either.
- By Joe McKendrick
- February 11, 2004
Tuesday was Microsoft's monthly patch day, and the company marked the date with three new security bulletins, including one critical new bulletin for Windows. In all Microsoft bundled four security bulletins, including one it issued for Internet Explorer last week outside its normal patch cycle.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 10, 2004
If nothing else, Juniper Networks' $4 billion acquisition of NetScreen Technologies Monday is a strong indication that the networking market segment is poised for a recovery in 2004.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 10, 2004
The worldwide server market got a slight bounce in 2003, according to preliminary numbers for the year compiled by IDC in a report published this month.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 10, 2004
The process of keeping systems updated shouldn't be treated as the mindless that we mistake it for; no strategy is an invitation to disaster.
- By Roberta Bragg
- February 09, 2004
It was an outbreak of viruses and worms in the summer of 2001 that prompted the Trustworthy Computing initiative at Microsoft, as the software giant realized that security was no longer something it could downplay. Another round of costly worms and viruses, Blaster, Sobig and MyDoom, has hit Microsoft's bottom line and made the company realize again that its security countermeasures aren't working fast enough.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 09, 2004
Although Microsoft enjoyed early success in fending off the distributed denial of service attack programmed into the fast-spreading MyDoom.B, the mass-mailing worm is inflicting an increasing amount of damage against the software giant's servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 09, 2004
Microsoft alerted partners on Monday to an upcoming deal on Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2000, the company's enterprise software firewall that is scheduled to be replaced later this year by ISA 2004.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 09, 2004
Although Microsoft launched its own enterprise reporting tool last week, the software giant will continue packaging the competitive Business Objects Crystal Reports tool inside the Microsoft Visual Studio developer suite for now and into the next Visual Studio release, code-named "Whidbey."
- By Scott Bekker
- February 05, 2004
Microsoft IIS slightly edges out the open-source Apache Web server in the percentage of the 1,000 highest-traffic sites that run each Web server, a new survey finds.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 05, 2004
Next week, Microsoft will launch its first advertising campaign around the Windows Server System, an indication that Microsoft is committed to its latest branding of the back-end server products that run on top of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 05, 2004
Testers laud ability to create more seamless applications and its deeper level of report creation and management.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 04, 2004
Letters from the security front.
- By Roberta Bragg
- February 04, 2004
Oracle announced lower prices for the entry-level version of its new Oracle Database 10g, which is shipping now for Unix and Linux and will be available for Windows later.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 03, 2004
Microsoft on Monday released the much-anticipated fix for a flaw that is already being exploited in Internet Explorer that allowed the widespread "phishing" attacks through e-mail.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 02, 2004
Enlist everyone, even your relatives, in the fight against the spread of malware.
- By Roberta Bragg
- February 02, 2004