Monthly Archives: March 2007
The View from Europe
I was in Europe last week, with stops in Germany that included a tour of the Frankfurt Airport data center and the annual CeBIT...
Hard Disk MTBF: Wheres the Reliable Reliability Data?
The revelations in a couple of research papers on troubles concerning the MTBF specification for hard disk reliability sparked readers to suggest that there...
Google Adds Themes for Personalized Homepage
Google may not be redesigning itself as Yahoo anytime soon, but it has started to offer some more personal touches to Google Personalized Homepage...
Novell Claims Red Hat Desktop Move Validates Its Strategy
Novell officials are welcoming the news that Red Hat is planning a packaged Linux desktop solution, which they say validates their existing desktop-to-data center...
Microsoft Launches Breakthrough PBX for SMBs
San Jose, Calif.—Microsoft at the VON 07 conference demonstrated a brand new phone system for small business that officials say overcomes the cost and...
Agámi Systems New Storage Server to Support iSCSI
Enterprise network-attached storage vendor Agámi Systems, which specializes in live file system replication, has unveiled a new version of its NAS-based Information Server appliance...
Network Appliance Teams with QLogic for Enterprise-Class Switches
Network Appliance announced the availability March 20 of the QLogic SANbox 9000 Core and SANbox 5600 Stackable Series of switches.
Combined with NetApp FAS systems...
Kingston Launches 8GB Version of DataTraveler
Kingston Technology Company Inc. announced March 20 that its DataTraveler Secure (DTS) and DataTraveler Secure – Privacy Edition (DTSP) USB 2.0 flash drives are...
Vista Will Have Little Impact on PC Sales in 2007, Gartner Reports
The release of Microsofts Windows Vista operating system will have a limited impact on the number PCs shipped worldwide in 2007, according to a...
Open-Source VOIP Made Easy as a Software Appliance
Digiums AsteriskNow marks a major step in the development of the Asterisk open-source project: The newest distribution integrates central voice over IP PBX features...