Crystal Decisions, the business intelligence company formerly known as Seagate Software, produced a new Web-based client for business users this week that accesses SQL Server OLAP data.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 30, 2001
The two highest volume U.S. Intel architecture server vendors offered a few more details of their plans for the new 64-bit Itanium processors that Intel formally launched this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 30, 2001
HP unveiled a 16-processor Itanium-based server Tuesday. Although HP is shifting its server branding to emphasize multiple operating systems (Unix, Linux, Windows), the high-end Itanium server will initially only ship with HP-UX.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 29, 2001
Unisys disclosed a few of its plans for its big Windows/Intel server Tuesday as Intel released the long-awaited 64-bit Itanium chip.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 29, 2001
Intel unveiled its long-awaited Itanium processor Tuesday. Several of the major OEMs will have 64-bit servers and workstations available in late June.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 29, 2001
Microsoft will distribute its new 64-bit server operating system through OEMs in much the same way as it currently sells Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. Microsoft also unveiled several other details of its 64-bit roadmap.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 24, 2001
Three new specifications – SOAP Routing Protocol, XLANG and Direct Internet Messaging Encapsulation – went up on a .NET Web site. The specs come just after Microsoft established a partnership on its .NET-related Hailstorm initiative.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 24, 2001
The first service pack for Exchange 2000 will come with Outlook 2002, allowing administrators to upgrade to Microsoft's Office XP generation e-mail client with no extra licensing cost.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 24, 2001
Dell became the first vendor to formally unveil a server specifically designed for the 64-bit Itanium processors that Intel Corp. is expected to launch next week.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 23, 2001
Microsoft will provide a supported pre-release version of 64-bit Windows 2002 and Windows XP for Itanium systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 23, 2001
- By Scott Bekker
- May 23, 2001
For years, Microsoft Corp. ranked second after Oracle Corp. for database revenues on Microsoft's own operating platform – Windows NT.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 23, 2001
Long-awaited Windows 2000 servers using Stratus Technologies' fault-tolerant designs were formally unveiled for the Japanese market. The servers from NEC Corp. signal the highly touted technology is close to reaching the U.S. market.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 22, 2001
Intel Corp. this week began shipments of its post-Pentium III generation of Xeon processors, named, simply enough, Intel Xeons.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 22, 2001
IT enterprise architects are getting their own specialized version of Microsoft Corp.'s Visual Studio in the .NET generation.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 22, 2001
Motorola Computer Group announced plans this week to extend its specialized line of five-nines, high-availability servers and hardening software for telecom OEMs with support for the Windows 2000 platform by Q3.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 17, 2001
Analyst firm IDC remains bullish on the appliance server market, predicting worldwide revenues of $31.4 billion in 2005 and the emergence of appliances for e-mail, gateways and databases.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 17, 2001
Microsoft took the unusual step of issuing a mini-security pack for IIS this week. The company recommends that users immediately apply the patch, which includes fixes for problems that aren't addressed in SP2.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 17, 2001
QLogic Corp. has integrated Virtual Interface (VI) technology into its new 2Gbps Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter. The adapter allows servers to transmit data at high speeds to SANs.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 17, 2001
A cluster of boxes running Linux dramatically ended Microsoft's monopoly on a key decision support benchmark and bounced Redmond out of first place in the category.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 16, 2001