Intel introduced a 2 GHz Xeon processor for dual-processor workstations on Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 25, 2001
The Cobalt Qube proposes to consolidate almost any conceivable network service – from DNS to DHCP to SNMP; from NAT to file sharing to firewalling; from POP to SMTP to HTTP – into a small cube-shaped box with a beguiling 25-square-inch footprint.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 24, 2001
Nimda worm-related activity is tapering off, according to the computer security watchdog group CERT.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 24, 2001
The firewall built into Windows XP may give some enterprises the base-level functionality required to support home office and limited remote office environments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 24, 2001
Security vendor VeriSign said Monday that it will buy carrier networking provider Illuminet for $1.2 billion.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 24, 2001
A Hewlett-Packard Co. benchmark published this week represents the first time in recent memory that any Unix system has outperformed a Windows system on price for comparable performance.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 20, 2001
Aelita Software released new versions of two Windows 2000-based management tools: EventAdmin 6.0 for collection and analysis of performance data across an enterprise and Enterprise Directory Reporter 5.0 for collecting and reporting directory and configuration data.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 20, 2001
Compaq gangs up 32 Windows servers to once again set the raw performance record for OLTP scalability.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 20, 2001
Microsoft will build Kerberos into its Passport authentication service in order to make the single sign-in technology interoperable with other services. Hailstorm, the superset of services that includes Passport, is renamed .NET My Services.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 20, 2001
Recent market research from IDC paints a picture of Microsoft marching inexorably to a much greater share of operating environment revenues -- both client and server -- over the next few years.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 19, 2001
Microsoft Wednesday officially unveiled a new version of its Office productivity suite that it says is designed to run on Apple Computer Inc.’s Macintosh OS X operating system.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 19, 2001
Microsoft's OLAP product, bundled free in SQL Server, outperformed its more expensive competitors in some categories of a recent user survey done jointly by a longtime OLAP industry analyst and a business intelligence research firm.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 19, 2001
Security experts Tuesday confirmed the existence of a new attack worm that affects all Win32-based platforms and which has the potential to spread rapidly from one vulnerable system to the next.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 18, 2001
Analysts at Gartner this week urged enterprise customers to carefully review their Microsoft licenses -- enterprises may be able to save a lot of money by renewing contracts before Microsoft's new licensing structure goes into effect Oct. 1.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 18, 2001
Gartner research on disaster recovery, made free as a public service in the wake of terrorist attacks, lays out disaster recovery options for Windows environments.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 17, 2001
Several software and hardware vendors in recent weeks unveiled storage solutions targeted at helping administrators with certain tasks in Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server and general Windows server environments.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 17, 2001
Although Fall Networld+Interop (N+I) 2001 ground to an effective halt on account of the terrorist attacks last week, several major vendors nonetheless managed to announce new products at the networking-oriented tradeshow.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 17, 2001
EMC and HP upgrade their biggest disk arrays with 181-GB drives to greatly increase the capacity of the big cabinets. Meanwhile, network-attached storage vendors roll out NAS devices with capacities challenging the previous generation of data-center cabinets.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 17, 2001
Compared to the death and suffering caused by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the associated loss of business data pales in importance. But there can be little doubt the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington raised the profile of the need for disaster recovery plans.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 17, 2001
Microsoft and the user group for SQL Server on Thursday postponed their annual SQL Server conference scheduled for next week due to the terrorist attacks of Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 13, 2001