Hewlett-Packard racked up some records on standard business benchmarks using its new servers built on the Itanium 2 processor, the Limited Edition of Windows Advanced Server and beta code of 64-bit SQL Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 17, 2002
In the wake of Intel's launch of its second-generation 64-bit processors, Unisys this week unveiled its plans for its next generation of Wintel mainframes. Unisys is packaging a new line of its big boxes to make it attractive in more cost-conscious markets. The new servers will roll out over the next few months.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 17, 2002
Microsoft is finally getting comfortable enough with its Exchange 2000 market adoption to trumpet some numbers.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 16, 2002
Microsoft for the first time publicly discussed details of the next version of its Exchange messaging and groupware platform, code-named Titanium. Titanium will incorporate new features, but Microsoft officials say it will constitute an “evolutionary” upgrade from Exchange 2000.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 15, 2002
Microsoft-centric database administrators were greeted last week with a pair of security bulletins about new problems with SQL Server and the Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE).
- By Scott Bekker
- July 15, 2002
Is business process integration worth the trouble? Over the past year, there's been a lot of industry buzz around the topic of business process integration, or – as it’s often referred to in its broader context – business process management. Many EAI vendors have widened their offerings to include BPI functionality. Not to be left out of the action, Microsoft positions its BizTalk Server as a BPI server and modeling environment that employs Web services protocols to link application sets. However, many experts question the value of approaches being undertaken in the name of BPI.
- By Joe McKendrick
- July 11, 2002
Many enterprise developers and IT shops are beginning to build applications around Microsoft's .NET architecture and BizTalk Server, which supports common standards, including XML. Will Web services change the course of Enterprise Application Integration, and even make it more accessible to smaller to mid-size IT shops? The market space could become another example of a familiar tale: An expensive customized approach swamped by a less functional alternative that costs much, much less.
- By Joe McKendrick
- July 10, 2002
Looking to sell high-end system buyers on its version of the 64-bit architecture, Intel has been discussing an entire 64-bit roadmap in conjunction with its Itanium 2 launch to assure customers that it is committed to the high-end market.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 08, 2002
Pricing for Intel's second generation of 64-bit processors will be fairly similar to the chipmaker's pricing for the first generation.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 08, 2002
Intel on Monday formally launched the Itanium 2.
The much-anticipated processor is the second-generation of Intel's
64-bit processor technology and the one that many industry
participants have predicted would mark the entrance of Windows/Intel
servers to the 64-bit space that RISC and Unix have occupied for years.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 08, 2002
Microsoft officially entered the 64-bit computing fray when it introduced its Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition last year. Microsoft’s 64-bit story has gotten dramatically better in the last 12 months.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 08, 2002
Better get used to supporting those mobile workers. They're not going anywhere, or rather, they're not going to disappear. A study released this week by market research firm IDC predicts that the percentage of mobile workers will increase to 66 percent of the workforce by 2006.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 03, 2002
Microsoft reissued the security bulletin for a chunked encoding vulnerability in its IIS Web server this week to upgrade the severity rating of the problem to "critical."
The decision to rerelease the bulletin comes after a similar vulnerability was discovered in the Apache Web Server and worms have been developed to exploit the flaws.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 03, 2002
Microsoft is carrying out a security investigation into problems with its Microsoft Office Web Components, a client-side technology for making Web pages more dynamic that has come to be used in many companies' server-side applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2002
Notable holdout Sun Microsystems Inc. is now on the Web Services Security (WS-Security) specification bandwagon.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2002
Microsoft will support eight-node failover clusters in Windows .NET Enterprise Server. Microsoft made the post-Beta 3 change to support Exchange Server and multi-site, disaster tolerance scenarios.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2002
Microsoft delivered the last major language for its Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment on Monday, posting the gold code of the Visual J# .NET language to the Web some four months after releasing the rest of the developer kit.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2002
Microsoft is urging customers using Commerce Server to immediately install a patch for four newly discovered vulnerabilities -- two of them involving critical code execution problems.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 27, 2002
Oracle reached a key milestone this week with its Oracle9i database by producing an audited benchmark of its Oracle9i Real Application Clusters on Windows servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 27, 2002
One of the first essential tools to emerge for Windows 2000 and Active Directory environments got a refresh this week. FullArmor Corp. is shipping version 3.0 of its FAZAM 2000 solution for the tricky task of managing Group Policy objects.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 26, 2002