Monthly Archives: May 2003
Database Lets Systems Scale
A select group of enterprises running memory-hungry applications are welcoming the arrival late last month of a 64-bit database from Microsoft Corp.SQL Server 2000...
Cisco Bridges IP-SAN Gap
Armed with its new MDS 9000 series of storage networking products, Cisco Systems Inc. is ready to fight its way into the Fibre Channel...
iTools Serves Up Apache in Mac OS X
For the most part, administrators of the open-source Apache Web server prefer that all server management be done through configuration files, which makes it...
Search Engine as OS
If I asked you to name the internets dominant operating system, youd probably nominate Linux, Windows or possibly Solaris. My answer would be none...
A Blurred Benchmark
AMDs Opteron microprocessor is by far the most interesting thing to happen in the server chip world in the last two years. It put...
What PC Buyers Want
Quick, name the top PC vendors. Wrong. Try Formoza, Kraftway, Aquarius, R-Syle Computers and K Systems. They dont sound familiar? They would if you...
Steady as She Goes
Matt Merrick was worried.In the fall of 2001, Merrick, executive vice president of IT at The Merrick Printing Company Inc., was deep into the...
Pogo Combines Linux With Serial ATA
A small server maker this week is rolling out a Linux-based Serial ATA workstation designed to combine with Intels Xeon chips to give users...
The Buzz: May 5, 2003
Oracle Tool Would Manage Licenses Oracle is developing a tool to help customers self-manage licensing compliance, according to Jacqueline Woods, vice president of Global...
Cyber-Security Leadership
In its national strategy to secure cyberspace, the federal government says it wants to show us how security should be done. Now, with a...