Monthly Archives: April 2006
MPC Launches 2U SAN Device
MPC Computers is adding a 2U iSCSI SAN device to its lineup of DataFrame storage offerings.MPC on April 4 rolled out the DataFrame 240...
The Lessons of the $100 Laptop
BOSTON—The $100 laptop is coming together, its founder says, but without the famous crank.
Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of One Laptop Per Child, said in a...
Google’s Multi-Media Madness
Try Google TV, and Google Audio on for size.These nascent features were the subject of several recent Google want ads, each containing hints of...
VMwares Greene: OS-Based Virtualization Reduces Freedom of Choice
For almost nine years, VMware was, for the most part, the only real player in the field of x86 virtualization technology. Over the past...
Virtual Iron, XenSource Nibble at VMware
Virtualization vendors will be aggressively courting the open-source community at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo this week in Boston.For several years, VMware was the...
Vendors, Customers Should Set Xen Standards High
As Peter Galli points out in his story, virtualization is awfully hot right now, and open-source virtualization is particularly toasty.
The Xen hypervisor—the code for...
Microsoft Reseeds Great Plains
Unlike many Microsoft products, dynamics GP, the companys Great Plains ERP application, is on a fast track.Next January, Microsoft Business Solutions is set to...
Microsoft Issues Partner-Hosted CRM
At its convergence 2006 conference here, Microsoft gave a distinct nod to on-demand software with the announcement March 27 of the next edition of...
Services Sprout From Hardware
Systems makers are continuing to build off their hardware expertise to grow their comparatively small services businesses that, while nowhere near the size of...
Linux Vendors Play Windows Tune
Some of the largest proponents of Linux have realized that partners and customers dont want to replace all their existing Windows server software with...