Microsoft on Wednesday put out a cumulative patch for its BizTalk Server enterprise integration products, fixing two newly discovered vulnerabilities. The most serious of the two problems could allow a attackers to execute code of their choice.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 01, 2003
Unisys Corp. is making a bid to house the standard Windows three-tier infrastructure entirely in one massive cabinet. The configuration is based on the ES7000 line of Intel-based servers that the Pennsylvania-based company has offered for the last three years.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 30, 2003
Stratus Technologies, which makes fault-tolerant Windows servers, cut list prices for its top-of-the-line, four-way-capable SMP systems last week. The computer maker expects the price-reduction strategy will bring it more share in a growing market for high-availability Windows systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 30, 2003
HP will begin volume shipments on Thursday of Itanium 2-based workstations with the new Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition Version 2003 operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 30, 2003
IBM Corp. on Wednesday formally joined the increasingly crowded list of vendors offering multiprocessor server systems based on Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor family. IBM's offering comes in on the low end of the current 64-bit SMP scalability range, with systems initially supporting up to four processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 30, 2003
Microsoft's patch factory was running at full production last week at
the same time that the company's formidable marketing arm was publicly
launching a new operating system designed to reduce the frequency of
security bugs. This apparent contradiction isn't proof that Trustworthy
Computing is failing; instead, it's evidence that the initiative is
critically necessary. Even though Windows Server 2003 is more secure
than any previous Microsoft operating system, there will be no let up
in patching for several years.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 29, 2003
Shortly after the launch of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft posted the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools for download on its Web site. The 12-MB download contains software tools intended for administrators, developers and power users.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 29, 2003
EMC Corp. this week unveiled a large commitment to supporting Microsoft Windows technologies throughout its line of storage products.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 29, 2003
AMD Corp. this week officially introduced its 64-bit Opteron chip. Analysts say that Opteron boasts an advantage over competitive chips from Intel Corp. because it can run both 32- and 64-bit code without sacrificing performance.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 24, 2003
A day after Microsoft and NEC Corp. reached the top of the Transaction Processing Performance Council's OLTP benchmark raw performance list, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard smashed that record.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 24, 2003
SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft formally launched Windows Server 2003 on Thursday, after more than a year of delays and several changes in name and focus. During a launch keynote, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer argued that the timing was right for a Microsoft server operating release that improves IT manageability and provides data-center scalability.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 24, 2003
In advance of the formal launch of Windows Server 2003 on Thursday, Microsoft and NEC posted record-setting results on the most important independent scalability benchmark in the industry on Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 23, 2003
Microsoft claims more than 1 million customers downloaded the Windows Server 2003 preview code through the Corporate Preview Program prior to the server's launch, which is scheduled for Thursday in San Francisco.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 23, 2003
It's been clear from Microsoft's naming announcements of the last few months that the .NET Enterprise Server products would have a new name shortly. The official word came down this week that the new name is Windows Server System.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 17, 2003
At least one area of the IT industry is experiencing double digit growth, according to market research firm IDC -- security appliances.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 16, 2003
Microsoft will put a "third gate" of spam protection into Exchange Server 2003, which is due for release in the middle of this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 16, 2003
A newly patched vulnerability in the Windows kernel opens enterprise systems to a significant threat of attacks from employees and others able to log on at a system keyboard.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 16, 2003
Systems Management Server 2003 hit the beta 2 phase, moving the management server further along the track for its planned September release.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 15, 2003
The third quarter of Microsoft's fiscal 2003 brought the software giant flat profits on increased revenues compared to the year-ago quarter, the company reported late Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 15, 2003
Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server and Proxy Server 2.0 are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack due to a flaw in the way services in the two products handle a response from remote clients.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 10, 2003