Monthly Archives: August 2001
Ideas for Becoming a Corporate Hero
Talk about pressure. I was speaking early last week with an IT manager who was describing how he had been faring under the current...
Make Way for the Little OS That Could
As I escorted him to the elevator after an interview in 1998, Gordon Eubanks, then president and CEO of Symantec, made a casual observation...
Banking on Linux
At RoTech Medical Corp. the decision came down four years ago: Let the penguin in."Were always looking for better, faster and cheaper," said Chief...
Sun Still Cool on Linux
As Linuxs importance as a strategic platform grows among major server vendors, Sun Microsystems may find itself the last man standing on proprietary ground.Hewlett-Packard...
Linux Backers Grab Chance
With the economy still slowing and corporate spending tightening, many Linux backers believe they have a significant weapon in the battle for IT dollars:...
ITAA Committee to Target Data Storage
A new committee of the Information Technology Association of America announced earlier this month will target storage service providers interests and will lobby for...
Tuple Data Model Faces Real World
A tuple is neither an exotic fungus nor an adults-only entertainment. Defined with misleading simplicity as "a series of typed values," the tuple can...
Small, Fast and Available
ShippingMaxtor Corp. is shipping a 40GB external hard drive with USB 2.0 connectivity: the Personal Storage 3000LE.CompatibilityOfficials of the Milpitas, Calif., company said the...
StorageTek Melds HSM
Storage Technology Corp.s application storage manager, or ASM, mixes tape and disk virtualization into a powerful, efficient storage system. From a technology perspective, ASM...
SetUp: August 27, 2001
Need More Space? Hit the PoolA server on one end of a network needs more storage capacity, pronto. Several nodes away, another department has...