Monthly Archives: February 2003
Sun Trumps Intel in Hot-Swap Capabilities
Although the Sun Fire V1280 lacks some of the functionality of Sun Microsystems Inc.s high-end server line (see story), this little "big" server will...
Sun Serves High End
Scaling up to 106 processors, including support for UltraSPARC III 1.2GHz CPUs, the Sun Fire 15K is a million-dollar server force to be reckoned...
AMD Ships Rival to Pentium 4
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. continued its aggressive first-quarter rollout of new processors on Monday, unveiling its long-awaited Athlon XP 3000+ desktop chip.The 32-bit chip,...
Storage News Digest: New Western Digital 10K-rpm Hard Drives, IBM Discounts Storage Bundle and...
Enterprise StorageSerial ATA and Serial Attached SCSI Working Groups Aim for CompatibilityThe Serial ATA II (SATA) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) working groups have...
Itanium to Take Spotlight at ISSCC
Larger cache sizes will continue to be a driver as the 64-bit Itanium chip continues to evolve, according to Intel Corp. officials.The next generation...
InterSystems Database Targets Hospitals
InterSystems Corp. on Monday targeted the hospital market by introducing a version of its Caché "post-relational" database that works on Tablet PCs.Post-relational databases are...
Tracking Network Traffic
Network Associates Inc.s Sniffer Technologies division on Monday introduced a new forensics analysis solution that has the ability to capture, inspect, reconstruct and replay...
Moores Law Good For Another Ten Years
Moores Law, an axiom that has taken on the force of law in the semiconductor industry, must continue to overcome technical hurdles to survive,...
Moore: Innovation Will Keep Law Alive
SAN FRANCISCO—Although the immutable laws of physics will one day trump his famous "law" that predicted the exponential growth of computing power, integrated circuit...
Microsoft Renames XDocs App
Microsoft Corp. on Monday renamed its XDocs application to InfoPath, but declined to say whether this information-gathering tool would ship as part of Office...