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In these dog days of summer, David Delps lawn isnt the only thing drying up. As the economy languishes and tech budgets remain stagnant, company funds for IT training and certification have shrunken to a trickle. As a result, IT professionals such as Delp are caught in a frustrating position: either shell out money from […]

Intel Corp. plans to launch its much-touted Itanium 2 processor this week, with some major computer makers unveiling workstations and servers featuring the 64-bit chip. One key player, however, Dell Computer Corp., will be missing from the stage. Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and several smaller vendors will back the launch by introducing Itanium 2 workstations and […]

Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. late last month rolled out 64-bit mainframe servers in a renewed battle to control a space that features some of the most expensive systems on the market. HP improved its 64-processor Superdome, which is the Palo Alto, Calif., companys most powerful computer system, by installing 875MHz PA-RISC 8700 […]

We at eWeek Labs believe that the exploration of open source should be broadened but with caution. For example, while open-source options in the Web server and server operating system space are pretty safe bets, emerging ERP and CRM options should be approached warily, if at all, right now. Following, eWeek Labs analysts weigh the […]

The security of the internet took a one-two combo to the gut last month when we learned of remotely exploitable security holes in Apache HTTP Server and OpenSSH. The costs of these two problems could be enormous—the foundation of the worst Internet worm yet—and should prod us all to rethink the way security-sensitive software is […]

IBMs storage systems group plans to announce new versions of its high-end enterprise and low-end NAS hardware this month, according to sources. IBM, having recently exited the hard disk and RAID controller businesses and aborted its iSCSI attempts, is rolling out two upgrades to its high-end Enterprise Storage Server F series, while the new NAS […]

A startup storage company plans to roll out its first product this fall in a strategy that will focus on merging the traits of object-based storage and enterprise backup. By identifying data as objects instead of as blocks or files, Avamar Technologies Inc.s as-yet-unnamed product will eliminate multiple copies and determine optimal ways to back […]

Industry Ships 1 Billionth PC IT has taken the computer industry 25 years to ship 1 billion PCs, but it will take only five or six years to ship another billion. According to a report issued last week by Gartner Dataquest, the industry passed the 1 billion milestone in April, and it will reach the […]

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It would be impossible to retool the overwhelming volume of information thats already available via electronic media for compliance with 508(b), so some sort of triage is needed for current content. Tools such as Hiawatha Island Software Co.s AccMonitor, SSB Technologies Inc.s InSight and InFocus, and the Center for Applied Special Technologys Bobby can provide […]

More response from readers to “Storm clouds rise over H1-B” Dear eWeek: Wow you hit the nail on the head. I was just discussing this topic with my co-workers recently not knowing that this was something that had been brewin in others minds. We just went through a series of layoffs at our company over […]

Former WorldCom Inc. CEO Bernard Ebbers, who today refused to answer questions about the companys alleged mammoth accounting fraud, became the brunt of angry politicians frustration with the recent spate of scandal in corporate America. Lawmakers called for remedies ranging from criminal indictments of company executives to the resignation of Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman […]