Monthly Archives: October 2004
HP, IBM Fortify Servers
Enterprise blade server users will see their options grow as Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM extend their respective hardware options and management software capabilities for...
Shedding Light on Dark Fiber
Free and nearly infinite bandwidth sounds like a futurists dream, but its almost the present-day reality of dark fiber—vast numbers of fiber-optic channels in...
BMC Debuts New SIM Module
BMC Software Inc. last week sewed together more components of its Business Service Management initiative with the launch of new automated discovery and service...
Tying Cell Phone to IP PBX
Joining the arena of IP equipment manufacturers aiming to make the cell phone an extension of the PBX, NextWest Inc. this week will roll...
Wanted: Cyber-Security
The phrase "since Sept. 11" has been repeated countless times in the last three-plus years. That has been so because, in fact, since Sept....
Microsoft Research Hones Search
About 10 years of development work on information retrieval at Microsoft Corp.s Research division is culminating, with many technologies about to find their way...
Microsoft Research Efforts in Full Swing
Many features that end up in Microsoft Corp. products often start as projects in the companys research division. Rick Rashid, senior vice president for...
Next-Generation Chips Tailored for Net Work
General-purpose technologies spin off task-centered tools. The trick is to know the right time to set off in that direction. Do it too soon,...
Third Parties Tackle JPEG Buffer Issue
Dealing with Microsoft Corp.s pernicious GDI+ JPEG buffer overrun condition (Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-28) can be daunting for enterprise administrators, eWEEK Labs has found....
Feds Eye Larger Security Role for Private Sector
As legislators and department of Homeland Security officials continue to debate whether to give the nations top cyber-security official more authority, the people involved...