Monthly Archives: June 2005
Sun Seeks Benefits of Bundling with StorageTek Buy
While taking many by surprise, Sun Microsystems purchase of StorageTek is largely believed to be a good move for the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company.
Sun...
Users Shy Away from the Cutting Edge in Software
Technology providers very often live in a dream world where it is enough to bring a new feature or program to the market to...
EUs Hands May Be Tied in Microsoft Case
European regulators may be powerless to give open-source competitors effective access to Microsofts server protocols, despite antitrust rulings against the company and the EUs...
IBM Sees an On-Demand World
NEW ORLEANS—There is an ever-increasing focus on innovation or, as IBM refers to it, on-demand computing. So said Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBMs vice president of...
Storage Digest: News from Sony, Exabyte, Broadcom, Iomega
Both Sony Electronics and Exabyte announce powerful tape libraries focusing on capacity and speed, while new solutions from Iomega and Broadcom allow organizations to...
IBM to Offer More Scalable X3 Server
IBM is rolling out the latest server based on its X3 architecture, a system that can scale from four to 32 processors.
The x460, announced...
Future of IT Holds Flukes Aplenty
What is the future of information technology? If you listen to many of the prominent voices speaking about IT today, the future doesnt seem...
Yahoo, Cisco Team on E-Mail Authentication
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Yahoo and Cisco have joined forces to promote a cryptographic approach for authenticating e-mail in the battle against fraud and spam.
The two...
Developers Should Carry the Banner of Software Standards
Software standards used to be developed by programmers, for programmers, as tools for ensuring interoperability and achieving greater leverage for developers skills.
Increasingly, though, development...
Wi-Fi Misses Out on Red Carpet Walk
CANNES, France—Youd think a man walking down the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival here, wearing his best tux, would have something more...