Monthly Archives: April 2001
Easier Approaches
Exhibiting steady improvement over previous versions, The GNOME Projects GNOME 1.4 and KDE Projects KDE 2.1.1 each go a long way toward making Linux...
Linux Takes Another Step Forward
Built around the Linux 2.4 kernel and boasting several new configuration and usability enhancements, Red Hat Inc.s Red Hat Linux 7.1 packs advances for...
Swimming Upstream
Streaming Medias once-sunny future — like the outlook for much of the digital world — is looking mighty gray these days. Whopping predictions for...
Terabyte-Plus Fits in Enclosure
Winchester Systems Inc., of Burlington, Mass., this week introduced its high-performance FlashDisk OpenRAID, which uses 181GB disk drives to provide 1.45-terabyte capacity in a...
BMC Software Suite Frees IT Managers
The storage management arena got a little more crowded this month as BMC Software Inc. announced a software suite that gives IT managers a...
When In Doubt, Farm It Out
To listen to Rocky Taylor describe his experience in outsourcing is to imagine a magical world of fairies and elves dancing happily around a...
Storage Goes Network
Storage appliances are busting out all over, and experts say they are part of a trend to detach storage from specific servers and make...
Power Down
Its no secret that data centers are power gluttons. With power densities of 100 watts per square foot or more, electricity usage of a...
Multicast Gets a Makeover
As bandwidth-hogging multimedia traffic swarms over the Internet, multicast — a technology designed to reduce Internet congestion — is undergoing a transformation that will...
Digital Security You Can Touch
As handheld devices hold more personal data and become the entry points to hosted financial and medical services, users will be increasingly concerned about...