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Intel Corp. is launching its 64-bit Itanium processors in the midst of a deep industry downturn and, as part of its effort, is seeking to rally support around its vision of 64-bit computing. At the same time, the leading manufacturer of microprocessors is moving forward with new mobile chips and is looking ahead to computing […]

Microsoft Corp. Tuesday announced new storage management middleware and numerous storage hardware partners for its upcoming Windows .Net Server 2003 release. The new software, Volume Shadow Copy Service and Virtual Disk Service, came to light earlier this year and were publicly discussed at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in April. “The VSS is about data; […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday will announce XDocs, the working code name for the latest addition to its Office desktop productivity family. Steve Ballmer, CEO of the Redmond, Wash., software company, will use the Gartner ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., to announce this latest Office application. Microsoft officials are promoting XDocs as a smart client like Office. […]

In keeping with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmers ongoing quest for improving customer satisfaction, Microsoft is dabbling with two new support and pricing programs. Microsofts goal is to “provide customers with more effective, readily available support and service,” said Ballmer in an open letter to customers, partners and press, published on the Web last week. One […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday hailed the record-breaking performance of its four-way Itanium 2-based rx5670 server, seeking to win over skeptical system managers who remain wary of the new processor. The results also highlighted the flexibility of Intel Corp.s 64-bit Itanium architecture since the benchmarks were achieved on servers running three different operating systems: Linux, HP-UX […]

In an effort to add some of its core security expertise to its Sniffer Technologies product line, Network Associates Inc. on Tuesday unveiled its Network Performance Orchestrator technology. The system is designed to give administrators a centralized view of their networks performance and security. The nPO system is built on the Sniffer Enterprise Management Architecture, […]

Between public bouts of dissing Linux, Microsoft quietly is ripping pages from the open-source playbook and taping them to its own. Examples? The most obvious is the shared-source licensing mechanism. Shared source is no GNU General Public License but does allow companies to use Windows source code if they agree to Microsofts terms. There are […]

Fuji Sponsors Online School So, you want to know about storage? Maybe its time you went back to school. Fuji Photo Film USA last week opened the online doors to Data Storage University, an interactive site that the company said has the answers to your storage questions. Aimed at everyone from the consumer and reseller […]

ROUNDTABLESIM thought leaders hash out IT job market issues with eWeek Labs IT Careers Center experts MODERATED BY EWEEK LABS JEFF MOAD AND LISA VAAS David BrownVice president, information servicesCranston Print Works Co.,Cranston, R.I. Robert BarrettFormer vice president, ITPRI Automation Inc., Billerica, Mass. Carol BrownAssociate professor of information servicesKelley School of Business Indiana University, Bloomington, […]

In a recent address to customers and resellers, Hewlett-Packard Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina declared the controversial, $19 billion acquisition of Compaq a success and took a swipe at competitors—particularly IBM—which, Fiorina said, has reverted to its 1980s services strategy of pushing its own products at the expense of customer choice. Without taking sides regarding […]

Top-tier computer makers such as Dell Computer Corp. and IBM ship thousands of flash memory keys with their consumer PCs, but smaller companies are planning new features to make the small storage devices more attractive to enterprises. Customers can use the USB (Universal Serial Bus) devices—which are about the size of an index finger and […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. last week announced two faster Athlon processors but said the chips wont be available until late next month. The touting of the Athlon XP 2700+ and 2800+ chips seven weeks before their scheduled release was at odds with the typical timing of AMDs previous product announcements, which usually coincided with the […]