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Pelham Sloane Goes All-In-One Startup Pelham Sloane is readying an all-in-one desktop that features the PC on the back of the monitor. The companys PS1500, due to ship next month, features a 15-inch screen, behind which is the computer that comes with an Intel chip—either a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 or 1.8GHz Celeron—or Via Technologies C3 […]

Janet Perna, general manager for data management solutions in IBMs software group, can take much of the credit for her companys surpassing of Oracle Corp. in the relational database race recently. A 29-year IBM veteran, Perna initiated the key to the surge more than a decade ago: a cross-platform strategy for DB2. eWEEK Editor in […]

We believe in the power of software and its ability to execute daunting tasks. However, we are also aware that all software has flaws and that, sooner or later, these flaws will appear. Because of this, there are some tasks for which software alone should not be trusted. The process of voting in electoral contests […]

Backup appliance maker StorServer is expanding its operating system and tape library partnerships to give users a more integrated system, the company announced last week. The companys namesake appliances bundle a server, a tape library or disk storage, and management software. Next month, Version 5.0 will debut an embedded version of the Windows 2000 kernel. […]

Unisys Corp. has discontinued its Storage Sentinel product after only two customers bought the Blue Bell, Pa., companys management appliance, which was announced last August and shipped in September. “What we found was that the product, although it was what we called leading-edge technology, put us into too much conflict with our partners EMC [Corp.] […]

In my last column, I discussed the promise of Windows XP handhelds in theory. That piece was driven by some recent hands-on experience I had with a Tiqit handheld. This column shares more impressions of the device itself, and some thoughts for the future of these products. Read the first column: Windows XP Handhelds: The […]

McData Corp. this fall will ship its smallest-ever Fibre Channel switch, scaling down to just four ports. The new switch, Sphereon 4300, will scale in four-port increments up to 12 ports, and will include the SANpilot management software, said Doug Rainbolt, vice president of switch products, in Broomfield, Colo. At 12 ports, the switch will […]

Just before hopping a plane to jet off to LinuxWorld in San Francisco, Novell vice chairman Chris Stone provided a few quick answers to a few of our questions on Mondays announcements that Novell plans to buy Gnome and Mono developer Ximian — as well as on Red Hats decision to sue SCO. To read […]

eWeeks report from the closing Black Hat party at Ghostbar is pretty amusing. Microsoft threw a thank-you party for folks who have helped it improve its security strategy. And the crème-de-la-crème of the security elite, including some high-level Bush administration officials, all showed. “The fact that they all turned out for a party put on […]

Enterprise Storage Xiotech Preps Storage Clusters For Failover Xiotech Corp., which makes storage area networks, next week will introduce Magnitude 3D, clustered storage thats designed to automatically react to outages and keep data flowing by shifting data to another device when a potential failure is detected. A Magnitude 3D cluster will include two nodes, each […]

Tips used for Top Tips come from the ExtremeTech forum and are written by our community. Question from Johdel “I have had poor results gettering sufficient wireless reception in my old house. The house itself is over 90 years old and has walls made of either concrete or mortar and lath. I have tried 802.11a […]

Weve come a long way from the days when top Microsoft brass called Linux “un-American” and a “cancer.” Or have we? Microsofts new point man on Linux, Martin Taylor, is making the rounds this week, informing folks that Microsoft is done with helping to fuel the never-ending Linux vs. Windows religious wars. Instead, Microsoft wants […]