Two storage software vendors joined when Legato Systems announced its intention to purchase OTG Software.
Looking to capitalize on Microsoft's announcements that it will retire support for Windows NT 4.0, Sun is offering a competitive upgrade to its Cobalt appliances.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 21, 2002
AMD released details about its series of chipsets for its 64-bit Hammer processors. The chipsets, called the AMD-8000 series, will be available in the fourth quarter of this year, AMD says. They will be used in servers, workstations and desktops.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 21, 2002
Compaq and HP accompanied Microsoft's launch of Mobile Information Server 2002 with service and package offerings, including pilot program package deals.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 20, 2002
Microsoft plans to move the mobile and wireless technology from the middleware server into upcoming versions of other servers -- Exchange Server and Internet Security and Acceleration Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 20, 2002
Microsoft responds to a Gartner bulletin alleging that an Internet Explorer patch release was botched and undermines Microsoft's credibility on recent security promises.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 20, 2002
Symantec unveiled a new network security appliance, Symantec Gateway Security, that consolidates the features and capabilities of separate Symantec point products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 19, 2002
Despite a burst of attention directed at new languages like Java and C#, C++ use quietly continues to grow. At the same time, observers say .NET-driven changes in Microsoft's popular Visual C++ tool may alienate some C++ developers. Into this scene comes Borland Software Corp. with
C++ Builder 6.
- By Jack Vaughn
- February 19, 2002
Microsoft made a patch available to plug the security hole in Microsoft implementations of the SNMP service. After applying the patch, W2K and Windows XP users will not need to implement the workarounds detailed in an earlier bulletin on the industry-wide problem.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 19, 2002
The recall of Microsoft's Internet Explorer security patch prompts Gartner's John Pescatore to pin Microsoft's ears back again. Pescatore gained notoriety last year for advising IT managers to consider replacing IIS Web servers with Apache.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 14, 2002
Along with the formal launch of Visual Studio .NET on Wednesday, Microsoft issued two toolkits to help developers build XML Web services using SQL Server and BizTalk Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 14, 2002
A feature added to a compiler in Visual Studio .NET to improve the security of Visual C++ .NET itself introduces the type of vulnerability -- a buffer overflow -- that it was designed to protect against, a Dulles, Va.-based security consultancy revealed Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 14, 2002
Microsoft formally launches its much-anticipated Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment today, making slightly more tangible the Web services concept many predict will soon become a lingua franca in enterprise computing circles. But Microsoft and longtime rival Sun remain at odds, which means developers will likely still struggle to find ways to build for both .NET and J2EE.
- By Matt Migliore
- February 13, 2002
HP dropped prices from 11 percent to 31 percent on some models of IA-32 dense servers and server appliances.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 13, 2002
Compaq is again pushing Windows 2000 into new scalability territory, on benchmarks at least. This time it's the TPC-H decision support benchmark.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 13, 2002
IBM this week began shipping an enhanced version of its rack-dense xSeries 330 server with a new technology that Big Blue claims makes the system perform as if it had twice the amount of memory it actually has installed. IBM plans to extend the technology to other xSeries servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 13, 2002
Microsoft advised users of its Windows server and client operating systems to disable the SNMP service if it is running because of a buffer overrun vulnerability in the industry-standard protocol.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 13, 2002
Storage giant EMC opens a Windows Competency Center for demonstrating storage networking best practices for the Windows platform and simulating customers' environments prior to production installations.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 13, 2002
Windows 2000 turns two years old in February 2002. The operating system continues to enjoy a reputation for reliability and stability, and Windows 2000 made significant scalability strides in 2001.
<p>Still, migrations to the operating system continue to drag and serious doubts have emerged about Microsoft's ability to secure its products. Considerable confusion also exists about the direction Microsoft is taking with the next versions of Windows.</p>
Microsoft released a cumulative patch fixing three critical vulnerabilities for Internet Explorer Monday night.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 12, 2002