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Windows 2000 Conference Starts Up

Three days of glitz, blaring rock music and product and services announcements begin today as the Windows 2000 Conference and Expo gets underway with events leading up to the formal launch of Windows 2000 by Microsoft.

Management Framework Vendors Gear up for W2K

SAN FRANCISCO – As Microsoft Corp. makes its major new enterprise and network operating system available, the management framework vendors are rushing to scoop Windows 2000 into their heterogeneous embrace.

Michael Dell Unveils Computermaker’s Windows 2000 Deployment

SAN FRANCISCO – In talking about how Windows 2000 will help companies support e-business, Michael Dell declared today that Dell Computer Corp. was putting its own most prized system on Windows 2000.

HP to Demonstrate IA-64 Products at Intel Developer Forum

Hewlett-Packard Co. will highlight its developments for Intel Corp.'s IA-64 hardware platform through a series of demonstrations and technical presentations this week at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Palm Springs, Calif. Among the demonstrations will be Linux on Itanium Server and Workstation demonstrations as well as use of the IA-64 Linux kernel.

Computer Associates Buys Sterling Software

Computer Associates International (CA) today announced an agreement to acquire Sterling Software in a stock transaction worth $4 billion.

Trusted Systems Services Puts Network Security Tool in Beta

February 11, 2000

MCS First to Market With W2K Certification

Mission Critical Software (MCS) has announced that its OnePoint Operations Manager is the first product currently available on the market to bear the "Certified for Windows 2000" seal of approval from VeriTest.

DDoS Do's and Don'ts

While the Distributed Denial of Service attacks ravaged the giants of e-business over the last week, they have also brought about an equal amount of awareness that could reduce vulnerability to such attacks in the future.

BMC Patrol Becomes First Application Certified for Windows

With just a week to go before the Windows 2000 launch, Microsoft's testing partner has managed to push the first Certified for Windows 2000 Server application through the test process.

10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance to Develop New Network Standard

3Com, Intel, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, and other vendors have banded together to form the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance.

Legato Systems Delivers Disaster Recovery Tools

Banner Software Releases Test Data Generator

DSET Ships Telecom Solution

Spring Tide Networks Offers VPN Switch

February 9, 2000

2000 Year of the Intranet, Says IDC

The use of corporate intranets has risen exponentially since 1998, according to several new studies from International Data Corp. (IDC).

StoragePoint.com to Release WebDrive for Windows

DeVries Delivers Integration Suite

DataChannel Delivers XML Portal Server

Index Server Security Holes May Impede Deployments of W2K

Microsoft hasn’t yet released Windows 2000, but the next-generation OS has already revealed several tiny cracks in its armor. Will the first of what could be a number of such vulnerabilities deter IT managers from deploying Windows 2000?