Monthly Archives: June 2002
Cognos Pays to End Lawsuit
Cognos Inc. last week said it will pay $24 million to business intelligence software competitor Business Objects S.A. to settle a 2-year-old patent suit.Business...
Siemens, Cisco, 3Com Nudge VOIP Toward Broader Support
Voice over IP, so far slow to meet industry expectations for adoption, is showing signs of broader acceptance as new networking and service offerings...
Linux Crews Close Ranks
The move last week by four Linux developers to create a unified distribution promises a new era of standardization for the open-source operating system...
Oracle to Add Rac Clustering to Linux OS
Linux will gain another enterprise boost this week as Oracle Corp. announces additional database support for the operating system.The Redwood Shores, Calif., company is...
Storage Skills Roundup
Greenhorns neednt apply. CTS Professional Services Inc.—an Atlanta-based consultancy that designs and installs NAS and SAN systems for large outfits such as The Coca-Cola...
Tools Scrutinize Storage Systems
Products debuting this month from I-Tech Corp. and Empirix Inc. will help developers and end users evaluate storage systems performance and throughput.I-Techs SANCommander, available...
New Ways to Put a Charge Into Backup
Tired of seeing your companys storage needs being labeled as a budgetary black hole?A new breed of backup auditing tools coming to market can...
SnapVantage Links StorageTek Arrays to IBM zSeries Servers
Storage Technology Corp. this week will announce SnapVantage virtualization software for connecting StorageTeks Shared Virtual Array products to IBMs zSeries Linux-based virtual servers.The $25,000...
IT Workers Burned by Exported Labor
Reader response to Lisa Vaas May 13, 2002 article, "Fair Trade on Jobs?"Your article came at an appropriate time since my development team at...
AMD Demos Four-Way Server
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. offered the first public demonstration today of its upcoming 64-bit Opteron processor running a four-way server at a Taiwan computer...