Monthly Archives: January 2002
A Healthier Way to Archive Databases
The task of archiving high-end databases while minimizing downtime becomes more complex and uses expensive storage each time its done. However, niche firm OuterBay...
Akamai, Digital Island Score Content Wins
Two more enterprise customers have chosen outsourcing as a means of reducing the complexity of their own data centers, extending the capacity of their...
Torvalds Looks Ahead
As the Linux community congregates in New York for the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, the center of attention, as always, will be Linux creator...
KDE 3.0 Is Big on Usability
Ive predicted that 2002 will bring with it more usable brands of desktop Linux, thanks in part to KDE 3.0 and GNOME 2.0 desktop...
Data Recovery With Less Mirroring
As major hardware makers in the data storage industry continue their move into software, one smaller hardware company, Storage Technology Corp., is taking the...
MaxAttach Is Built for Capacity, Not Speed
Maxtor Corp.s latest NAS appliance, the MaxAttach 6000, boasts impressive storage capacity, competitive price and ease of use, making it a good offering for...
Lets Pretend Its Hardware
In 1989, I reviewed Prowares $50 PC-MIX (Multitasking Interactive Executive), which brought astonishing concurrent capability to 8088-based DOS PCs. It created virtual machines that...
XML Standards Updated
The all-too-familiar struggle to satisfy time-to-market simplicity and final-feature-set criteria is in full swing in several key XML standards bodies, the results of which...
Taking Wireless Bull by Horns
Twenty years ago, the arrival of the IBM PC struck IT departments like a bomb. IT managers had no idea how deeply PCs would...
Is 802.11a Dead Before It Even Begins?
Wireless networking keeps getting better and better. 802.11a-based devices are more than fast enough for most applications. And assuming you can find them and...