eWEEK EDITORS

NEW YORK—Microsoft Corp. isnt veering from its well-documented security course. That message rang loud and clear, as the Redmond, Wash., software giant officially kicked off its 20-city Security Summit tour here on Tuesday morning. “The idea of these summits is to give you the information you need to have a great experience around security, without […]

Ive taken some pretty tough tests in my life, and passed every one of them on the first try. And since Im teaching Linux system administration at my local community college, I thought I would be hot stuff when I signed up to take the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam. I dont think that […]

Weve all seen Microsofts latest barrage of studies that say their products are more cost-effective than the competition. Naturally, many accuse Microsoft — and other companies that publish outside studies that support their corporate goals — of bias, if not outright deception. To get a little more insight into the value of TCO studies, we […]

McDATA Corp. this week unveiled its next generation switch-on-a-chip (SOC). The advanced switch-on-a-chip technology will be integrated into McDATAs current line of four to 24-port Sphereon 4000 switches in the second quarter. The company said the SOC, a result of the companys partnership with IBM, will significantly lower the total cost of ownership for both […]

LSI Logic Corp. this week introduced new products aimed at cutting the cost of building SANs within medium-size businesses. The new MyStorage management software allows midrange solution providers to offer enterprise-class SAN capabilities to the midrange space. The beta tests for MyStorage are expected to be finished this quarter. Read the full story at ChannelWeb

Snap Appliance Inc. this week announced a new Snap Server that can serve up data via iSCSI, starting at about $7 per gigabyte. That same Snap Server 15000 can scale to 29TB, with the addition of another six expansion units. With the Snap Server 15000, Snap Appliance jumps on another bandwagon: “unified” file-and-block storage. That […]

Microsoft Corp. for the second year running wound up as the OLAP market share leader, according to The OLAP Report. The British research firm found Microsofts 26.1 percent market share to be the leading, but not the dominant, share—and thats despite selling an old product. Read the full story at the Data Warehousing Institute. /zimages/3/28571.gifCheck […]

Even though our government is spending training dollars to turn people into Oracle DBAs, the truth is that there are zero jobs for DBAs with zero years of experience. “Entry level” in the case of the job market for Oracle DBAs typically means three to five years of experience, and an IT certificate from a […]

Editors Note: A security alert is presented daily to eWEEK.com readers by iDefense Inc., a security research company based in Reston, Va. /zimages/3/72206.gif Severity: Medium Analysis: Remote exploitation of a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.s SharePoint Portal Server 2001 allows for the theft of user credentials. Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server is an enterprise […]

Ask Microsoft Corp. if the company has plans to get into the vertical-application space—by selling healthcare software or pharmaceutical applications, for example—and the companys pat answer is only via its software and reseller partners. But the real answer is much more complicated. Microsoft Business Solutions, Microsofts small/midsize business division, is adding more layers to its […]

On Tuesday, Microsoft Corp. quietly went live with a new Web site called “Channel 9” that is designed to facilitate communication between Microsoft and its developer and customer constituencies. The site, which was built using Microsofts ASP.Net Forums Web-based discussion technology, uses video clips, moblog technology, RSS feeds, wikis and forums to reach out to […]

Research In Motion Limited has announced a new licensing agreement with Siemens mobile. Siemens plans to unveil a BlackBerry-enabled handset featuring BlackBerry e-mail, calendar and browser applications during the fourth quarter of this year. The handsets will be able to connect to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Other terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read […]