Cisco on Tuesday introduced a storage router for moving Windows-based enterprise workgroups from direct-attached storage to Storage Area Networks (SANs). Called the Cisco SN 5428 Storage Router, the storage networking platform supports both IP and Fibre Channel switching technologies and costs about $12,000.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 14, 2002
IBM this week posted demos of Web services built using its tools and server software to get developers to playing with the tools and thinking about ways to incorporate Web services into their businesses.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 14, 2002
Maybe they should have called the new combined company “HPaq,” evoking images of the all-knowing and prescient residents of the planet K-Pax. In last fall’s movie by the same name, a visitor from K-Pax seemed to have keen insight on the course of humanity. Indeed, as Carly Fiorina, chairman and CEO, and Michael Capellas, president, launched the new HP, which absorbs the former Compaq Computer Corp., they presented a well thought-out roadmap that covered their new company’s role in the uncertain and roller-coaster IT market.
- By Joe McKendrick
- May 14, 2002
Dell made a new rack-optimized server available this week with an option for including two Intel Xeon processors at speeds up to 2.4 GHz. Dell positioned the 2U PowerEdge 2650 as driving down rack-dense server prices with an entry price around $2,400.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 14, 2002
Windows .NET Server is the next major version of the Windows server operating system. It has been overshadowed by two colossal Microsoft product releases, its direct predecessor, Windows 2000, and the .NET Framework (along with Visual Studio .NET). Nonetheless, any server operating system release from Microsoft is significant, and the industry has been following the career of Whistler/Windows 2002/Windows .NET Server closely. This series of articles will explain what is significant about the Windows .NET Server family release, and when enterprises should expect it and consider deploying it.
Microsoft achieved a major milestone in its Unix interoperability plans this week when it released Services for Unix 3.0 to manufacturing. The next steps in the software giant's Unix interoperability roadmap are coming in Windows .NET Server and the follow-on to the recently released Visual Studio .NET.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 09, 2002
With the Release to Manufacturing this week of Microsoft's Services for Unix 3.0, Microsoft disclosed a significant cut in the price of the Windows-Unix interoperability toolset.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 09, 2002
Microsoft said this week it would refresh its Windows Advanced Server, Limited Edition, with a new 1.2 version to support the Itanium 2 release.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 09, 2002
Microsoft on Thursday tightened the integration between two of its most closely related .NET Enterprise Servers -- Content Management Server and SharePoint Portal Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 09, 2002
Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out a tool for making business intelligence projects easier and quicker to develop on its SQL Server database platform. The SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence consists of a technology wrapped in a partner and consulting program.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 08, 2002
Analysts at Gartner revised figures that showed that SQL Server had finally overtaken Oracle as the top-selling database on the Windows server platform in 2000. Turns out SQL Server didn't topple Oracle on Microsoft's own OS platform until 2001, Gartner says now.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 08, 2002
New study by the Information Technology Association of America says that despite the 5 percent dropoff, IT managers expect to hire about that number of workers in 2002.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 08, 2002
An independent survey shows developers are snapping up Microsoft's C# language.
Evans Data Corp. released results of a survey of 800 developers conducted in March and April. According to the research firm, 12 percent of developers were using C# at the time of the survey, up from 7 percent in a similar Evans survey from October.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 08, 2002
Gartner released research this week showing that the strongest growth in new database software license revenues in 2001 came on Windows server platforms.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 07, 2002
Seagate Technology is taking the wraps off two new hard disk drives designed for data-intensive and OLTP applications. The new drives, both of which are additions to Seagate’s Cheetah line of high-performance SCSI disks, are based on the company’s 10,000 RPM (10K) and 15,000 RPM (15K) technologies.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 07, 2002
One of the biggest security-related trade shows got rolling Monday as Networld + Interop opened in Las Vegas. Amid the reams of networking-related product and partnership announcements, security vendors brought out numerous offerings. Much of the focus of new security products this year centers on locking down wireless LANs and protecting the network from the weak link of remote or roaming users’ systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 06, 2002
Quest Software issued new versions of its Active Directory tools this week, further driving the sophistication and granularity of the control that packaged tools give administrators over Microsoft's youthful directory services offering.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 02, 2002
IBM DB2 OLAP Server 8.1 combines data mining with what IBM calls a new kind of OLAP, which it calls Hybrid Analysis.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 02, 2002
A third-party newsletter featuring small business networking news on Microsoft Small Business Server, bCentral and Windows XP peer-to-peer solutions.
- By Harry Brelsford
- May 02, 2002
Altiris Inc. unveiled a new product this week at the Microsoft Management Summit for managing and maintaining applications by extending the functionality of Microsoft Windows Installer.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 02, 2002