Monthly Archives: July 2007
HPCs New Storage Rock Star
Supercomputings newest baby on the way is a $35 million system named after a cartoon character and a muscle car: Roadrunner.Currently being built by...
BitLeaps LeapServ Catches Data
Using tape backup and recovery had proved unreliable for years at Danlee Medical Products. The last straw came in 2005 when the company realized...
Fiorano, GT Software Team for SOA-Mainframe Support
Fiorano Software is teaming up with GT Software to help allow easier integration of SOA products with mainframe systems.
The July 3 agreement means that...
‘Hack Me’: Microsoft Security Grunt Makes List of Worst Jobs
Every year Popular Science magazine publishes The Worst Jobs in Science, a "bottom-10 list" saluting the "men and women who do what no salary...
On-Demand Application Development
Click here to download the podcast or click here to listen to it using the integrated eWEEK podcast player.From the initial first steps of...
Women in Technology: At Lunch with the Sisterhood
A new area of interest for me is that of women in computing. Indeed, among the stock questions I now often ask "leaders" in...
Microsoft, Newspeak and Open XML
One of the most chilling concepts of George Orwells novel "1984" is "Newspeak." In Newspeak, the language is constantly being cropped of words that...
iPhone Coughs Up First Bugs
Even as the iPhone drew its first breath, security researchers were squeezing it to make it cough up its first bugs.
In a nutshell, the...
SAP Prepares Response to Oracle Lawsuit
SAP is getting ready to fire back at rival Oracle, the last salvo in a bitter competition that was most recently fueled when Oracle...
Analysts Predict Future of TippingPoint
3Com officials are getting ready to file an IPO by the end of the year for TippingPoint Technologies, which 3Com bought in 2005. But...