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Administrators of ultra high-performance computing systems now have access to a 1TB RAM cache, from specialist Imperial Technology Inc. MegaRam 10000, for about $2 million, supports a million input/outputs per second across 48 Fibre Channel ports, said Robert David, CEO and president, in El Segundo, Calif. Imperials prior version only scaled to 51GB. “That allows […]

Enterprise Storage META Predicts Fibre Channel To Rule Through 2007 A week after the Internet Engineering Task Force ratified the iSCSI standard for storage networking, research firm META Group said Fibre Channel will continue to reign as the dominant SAN architecture in data center deployments in the SAN storage market through 2006, or even 2007. […]

Sony Electronics Inc. is now shipping terabyte-capacity Super AIT cartridges to automated library makers, with end-user availability slated to begin this spring. Sony announced the reseller shipments yesterday at the AIT Forum, in San Francisco. The latest advanced intelligent tape format holds a half-terabyte natively or 1.3TB compressed, and transfers data at 30MB natively or […]

Microsoft Corp. this week rolled out its plans for MCSA and MCSE training and certification offerings in conjunction with its new Windows Server 2003 operating system, which will become available in the first half of this year. Candidates for the Windows Server Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) certification will be required to pass three core […]

Microsoft Watch Exclusive: Microsoft is preparing to thread DRM technology throughout its Office 2003 suite. And thats just the tip of the iceberg: Windows and Internet Explorer are going to get the DRM treatment soon, as well.

It looks like the “rights management technology” that Microsoft has been rumored to be building into Office is on the cusp of debuting in Office 2003. The Windows enthusiasts over at Neowin.Net have the dish on the “Information Rights Management” component of the Office 2003 Beta 2 code that appeared — then disappeared — from […]

Microsoft Corp. on Friday finally unveiled its plans to integrate digital rights management technology across its entire product lines. The Redmond, Wash., company announced Windows Rights Management Services (WRMS), a new technology for Windows Server 2003 that will help secure sensitive internal business information including financial reports and confidential planning documents. An early alpha version […]

Most of the world associates Sun Microsystems Inc. with high-performance computing, Java, the phrase “The network is the computer,” and the “dot” in the dot-com industry. The latter, of course, is an unfortunate association for any company, and it had a disastrous effect on Sun. Sun is now positioning itself as the company that provides […]

Enterprise Storage IBM Bolsters Midrange Storage Lines IBM extended the fault-tolerant features of its high-end systems into midrange storage arrays at this weeks IBM Partnerworld with the introduction of a new disk array and tape drive. The company announced the TotalStorage Linear Tape-Open Ultrium 2 drive and the TotalStorage FAStT 900 storage array, as well […]

Microsoft Corp. clearly will shake up the customer relationship management and sales force automation markets simply by its decision to enter those spaces. Vendors that focus on the midsize-and-up markets will be among the most affected. eWEEK Labs brought together the opinions of the CEOs and chief technology officers of the top competitors to Microsoft […]

Tips used for Top Tips come from the ExtremeTech forum and are written by our community. Question from Jangsters“While I was still setting up my test lab(migrating windows 2000 upgrade), I came upon this question. We currently have about 175 employees and we are planning to expand maybe 100 more people. My question is, since […]

NEW ORLEANS—Taking another step in its pursuit of the fast-growing small and medium-sized business market, IBM Tuesday unveiled scaled-down versions of its DB2 database management system and products from its Lotus and Tivoli software lines. The new products, launched here at IBMs annual PartnerWorld gathering of 3,000 of its reseller, ISV, integrator and other business […]