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App Performance Management Vendor Bets on .NET

Aelita Updates Windows-centric Directory Administration Tool

NEW ORLEANS -- Aelita Corp. this week released a new version of its administration tool for Windows 2000 Active Directory and Exchange.

Notification, CE SQL Server Betas Unveiled

NEW ORLEANS -- Beta versions of a SQL Server-based notification service and a new Windows CE edition of the database made their first public appearances at Microsoft TechEd 2002 on Wednesday.

NEC Updates Fault-Tolerant Server Line

NEW ORLEANS -- NEC Solutions Inc., which sells fault-tolerant Intel-based servers built on technology licensed from Stratus Technologies, introduced its second generation of systems this week at Microsoft TechEd.

Free Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer Available

Microsoft's ongoing efforts to improve the security of its products got a boost this week when Redmond made its promised Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) available for free download.

Toolkit Turns Exchange Data, Features into Web Services

NEW ORLEANS -- Developers at Microsoft's 10th annual TechEd conference received a toolkit to help them turn the features and data in Exchange Server into XML Web services.

XML for Analysis Council Takes on Data Mining

A group of vendors, including Microsoft, working on making data analysis tools available as Web services expanded their work to include data mining.

NetIQ Expands MOM with Security Pack

NetIQ, the company that licensed to Microsoft the base technology for its Microsoft Operations Manager, on Tuesday announced a suite of software that builds security functionality into the management toolset.

High-End Windows Servers

Microsoft has been trying to prove it deserves a place in the enterprise data center for years. These days, Microsoft has solid technology, programs and partnerships that earn Microsoft at least a foot in the door in the glass house. From its Windows Datacenter Server operating system and Windows Datacenter Program, to scalability improvements in SQL Server, to partnerships with fault-tolerant hardware vendors, to 64-bit systems, the Windows approach is gaining credibility. But the word Microsoft still raises the hackles on many a data-center manager's neck. In this series of stories we'll look at whether Microsoft is ready for this space.

Compaq Gives Indication of Exchange 2000 Market Penetration

In announcing a new utility-style offering for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, Compaq Global Services gave some hard evidence for how much Exchange 2000 is penetrating the Exchange user base. Compaq's figures show that about 12 percent of the Exchange seats it has deployed or has under contract are on Exchange 2000 as opposed to Exchange 5.5 and earlier versions of the e-mail server.

Dell Commits to Next-Generation Server Technologies

Dell started talking the talk of bricks, blades and InfiniBand. The computer giant made a series of announcements at an enterprise-focused event in New York City on Wednesday that included plans for a 3U blade chassis that holds up to six, two-processor servers.

IIS Gains in Monthly Netcraft Survey

Microsoft's IIS Web server gained almost 2 million sites in March, taking market share from the open-source Apache and the iPlanet Web servers, according to Netcraft.

Microsoft to Combine Its Unix Products

Microsoft will combine its two Unix interoperability tools, Services for Unix and Microsoft Interix, into a single offering called Services for Unix 3.0 in the second quarter of this year, Microsoft officials say.

Anti-Unix Marketing Site Turns Users Away

The stumbles continued into Wednesday for the Unisys-Microsoft joint anti-Unix marketing campaign as the Web site for the program became unreachable.

Power Play at City Hall

<i>Case study.</i> When the City of Minneapolis, Minn. government decided to use the Internet to automate its business processes, it was obvious the information infrastructure would need updating, too. The city's Microsoft-based solution includes Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.

Dell Retakes TPC-C Price-Performance Lead

Dell Computer Corp. reclaimed the price-performance lead on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C benchmark for OLTP systems.

Unisys-Microsoft Anti-Unix Campaign Stumbles Out of Gate

A joint marketing campaign from Unisys Corp. and Microsoft Corp. to promote Windows on 32-processor Unisys ES7000 servers got off to a rocky start when its anti-Unix homepage was hosted on a Unix/Apache server.

Intel Ships 2.4 GHz Pentium 4

On its way to delivering 3-GHz Pentium 4 processors by year's end, Intel shipped a 2.4-GHz version of the processor.

88 High-Voltage Tips

Become the network master of all your domains. This ultimate guide spells out new, smart ways to upgrade systems, set up services, monitor traffic, install applications and more—better, faster, cheaper.

Certified Mail: April 2002

Pass/Fail causes a storm; XML; Exchange and Active Directory; salary survey unrealistic?